Welcome Guest Blogger Ndesanjo Macha
There is a new guest blogger in town, Ndesanjo Macha. Nedsanjo was one of the distinguished Sun Fellows from African that joined us at Pop!Tech 2005 and we are thrilled to have him join the blogging team.Here's a bit of background on Ndesanjo..
Ndesanjo Macha was trained as a lawyer and a journalist in Tanzania, East
Africa. He received his Masters in Sociology (focusing on social
informatics) in the US. He is the leading figure in Swahili blogosphere. He
single-handedly built the largest blogosphere in an African language,
Swahili. He started the first blog in Swahili in 2004, which has inspired
others to blog in African languages. He blogs for Jikomboe(Swahili),Digital Africa(English) and maintains a Swahili blogging guide. He also writes a weekly column on politics, technology, culture for a Tanzanian daily paper,
Mwananchi.
Ndesanjo is a very active Swahili Wikipedian, helping to build the first
Swahili encyclopedia. He is the co-ordinator of Katiba Huru/Hai Project
(Open/Living Constitution), a project to collaboratively re-write the
constitution of Tanzania on a wiki platform. He is a board member of The
People, Yes Project, a citizen media project.
His main interest are: technology and development in Africa, open source,
citizen journalism, collaborative democracy, and multicultural cyberspace
(decolonization of cyebrspace). He is currently working on a book, a
blogging guide for activists, journalists, and citizens in Africa.
I met you at Pop Tech 2005. You were a guest in one of my online science courses
Are you involved with the African Union 2007?
http://www.scidev.net/ms/ausummit07/
"In January 2007, the African Union will hold its 8th annual summit, focusing on science, technology and innovation and organised with support from NEPAD.
This autumn, a number of meetings will take place to prepare and discuss proposals including a model law to regulate biotechnology across the continent, the role of the African diaspora and a new financing facility to support African research.
SciDev.Net has grouped its coverage of these issues, key documents relating to the summit, links, and an invitation to join our related discussion group."
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