My talk from the Surprising Africa event at PICNIC 08. Focuses on the rise of citizen media in Africa and the importance of citizen journalism in the Kenyan election crisis.

1. CERN web page in 1990

2. 1995 - Geocities and Tripod: Personal Homepages

3. 1997 - weblogs

6. diaspora

7. expat/aid workers

8. local bloggers

13. digital divides - technical, language, relevance
power divide

14. connectivity divide

15. language divides

16. relevancy divide

17. December 2007-
March 2008
Disputed election
Widespread protest
Ethnic violence
Joint government

18. SMS used to spread ethnic hatred.
1700 instigators identified - no prosecution.

19. Most popular forum closed down due to ethnic violence

21. Citizen reporting
via blogs.

22. Concerned
Kenyan
Writers

23. Support from the diaspora via alternative remittance

31. radio plus internet
input

32. Interactive Radio for Justice
featuring DRC deputy minister for defense,
head of military operations for MONUC
mobile + radio

33. mobile + newspapers

34. mobile + international news

35. beyond news

38. REPACTED - Nakuru
beyond the phone,
beyond the computer

42. Diana Camia with
Baby Kamba

45. more stories
more connections