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From: Naume Ziyambi <[log in to unmask]>
To: Highway Africa 2000 <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:38 AM
Subject: Highway Africa 2000 Announcement 1
> Dear Sir/Madam
> Please circulate this announcement to all who might be
> interested!! Contact me if you would like to us to add your
> friends and collegues to our mailing list for further information.
>
>
> A call for New Media speakers, trainers and delegates!
>
> This is Africa's New Media Century, and the place to get
> connected to it is the Highway Africa conference in
> Grahamstown, 10-15 September 2000.
>
> Join us over this period for the fourth in the annual series of
> conferences dealing with all aspects of the African media and the
> Internet, arranged by the New Media Lab at Rhodes
> University's Department of Journalism and Media Studies.
>
> This year, we're co-hosting Highway Africa with the national
> public broadcaster, the SABC - and the event has grown
> accordingly.
>
> Besides the conference inputs and skills workshops, there will
> be a living "Newsroom of the future" with a multi-media hub
> that produces a website, a series of webcasts, a CD-rom,
> cellphone messaging and a conference newspaper, as well as
> traditional broadcast materials.
>
> There will also be exhibitions, a gala dinner, an award for
> innovative use of new media in Africa, and a conference
> declaration.
>
> We're looking for speakers, trainers and interested delegates to
> join us for this five-day event.
>
> If Africa's original journalists used drums, the 21st century
> enables the continent's contemporary counterparts to exploit
> digital communications.
>
> So we want speakers who can track how new media is being
> used. The focus is on how digital comms technologies help to
> spread Africa's information riches within the continent and
> internationally.
>
> We're also seeking trainers to help us run New Media skills
> workshops for delegates.
>
>
> If you can offer one or more of the following,
>
> * a paper for delivery our plenary sessions,
> * a briefing/case study within our seminars/panels,
> * a skills workshop in an aspect of New Media.
>
> Or if you'd just like to register as a delegate,
>
> please contact Naume Ziyambi ([log in to unmask])046 636
> 1590 (Tuesday and Thursday), 046 6038336/7 (messages), fax
> 046 622 8447.
>
> Details of the Highway Africa 2000 conference, plus papers and
> discussions from previous conferences, can be viewed at {
> HYPERLINK http://nml.ru.ac.za/highwayafrica
> }http://nml.ru.ac.za/highwayafrica
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