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Understanding “Fake News” and Internet Shutdowns in Africa0
- Africa, culture, Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Malawi, Social Media
- 09.10.2017.
PhotoCredit : BBC Africa In 2016 after attending my first Re:publica, a techie conference in Berlin, I wrote of a need for Africa to have what I called a “collective thinking space” where like-minded actors on the African continent would converge to share ideas and inspire each other. The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa, 2017 (FIFAfrica17) just
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Why I’ve Chosen Social Media Silence About Zimbabwe0
- Africa, Internet, Media, Social Media, Zimbabwe
- 26.09.2017.
We were sitting on the old cushioned chairs in the dormitory reception where the temperamental TV set mounted overhead to one corner of the room was not giving us any news about the election results. It was just before 8 pm on a Sunday night, and I had just arrived back in Bulawayo from Harare,
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Using social media to solve local $1 problems – the Digital Humanitarian0
- Africa, Development, Social Media, Uganda
- 02.08.2017.
I saw that tweet and so I asked fellow social good practitioners what they thought – Sartaj explained a few things. In his words: 1/ Pure tech is backed by pure capitalism because it makes old money relevant again & reinforces the old power to new power transformation. 2/ Empathetic tech requires capital for good
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Sensitivity in the age of the internet meme0
- Africa, Media, Press Freedom, Social Media, Society, South Africa
- 22.03.2017.
The embedding of social media networks into our daily lives led to the rise of the internet meme, bringing humour to the many words that fill the interwebs. But it was really in 2014 when the ‘Confused Black Girl’ image went viral that it was clear that, the age of the internet meme is upon
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A Re(turn) to Self-Censorship1
- Civil Liberties, Internet, Social Media, Tanzania
- 09.02.2017.
“For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” – Jesus of Nazareth This blogger is about to close up shop. After ten years of exercising his constitutional right to freedom of expression by blogging, he no longer feels safe. Self-censorship, it seems, is now the
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Zimbabwe: Potraz and Telcos Protecting Spoils, Declaring ‘Let them Speak Cake’0
- Internet, Social Media, Zimbabwe
- 24.01.2017.
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) recent announcement that it has set minimum but high costs for mobile phone voice calls and data charges sparked a bit of a social media outcry. It hasn’t quite started a hashtag movement. But the fairness of it all is being questioned by those that would
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How striking Kenyan doctors are using Twitter to appeal for public support0
- Corruption, Kenya, Social Media
- 23.01.2017.
Kenyan doctors have been away from public hospitals for about one and a half months now. The strike was occasioned by a 4-year-old Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that the government failed to honor, claiming the economy could not afford it. The doctors holding on to their point that if the government curbed corruption and focused
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African Leaders Could use ‘Fake News’ to Control Internet Access1
- Africa, Media, Social Media
- 09.12.2016.
Social media and technology companies have emerged as major culprit of the 2016 American elections for allowing publication and promotion of ‘fake news’. For sometime journalists and media researchers have warned and argued against the increasingly influential role that technology companies are playing in determining journalistic decision within the mainstream media. Emily Bell, a journalist
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The complexities of Social Media in Zimbabwe0
- Social Media, Zimbabwe
- 15.09.2016.
For the past two months, Zimbabwe has been dominating the regional and international news headlines following a “wave” of protests, mainly in the capital city Harare. Most significant are the events of July 6, which many commentators and some sections of the media are attributing the successes to mobilisation through #hashtags on social media. However,
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