Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Arterial Network launches the African Creative Economy website

from: http://www.africancreativeeconomy.org/about-ace-2012/

Arterial Network launches the African Creative Economy website

Published: 16 October 2012

Arterial Network has launched www.africancreativeeconomy.org, the African Creative Economy website.

There are just 30 days to go before the opening of the 2012 ACE Conference by Youssou N'Dour in Dakar, Senegal. The conference is scheduled to take place from Wednesday, 14 to Friday, 16 November at Hotel Ngor, Diarama in Dakar. The website will provide general information about the 2012 ACE Conference, practical information about Senegal and real time updates of the event proceedings. 

The African Creative Economy Conference is the second to be hosted by Arterial Network, a dynamic network of individuals, organisations, donors, companies and institutions engaged in the African cultural sector. The Pan African Network, currently active in 40 African countries was formed in 2007 to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa. 

The 2012 conference will create a platform, unprecedented for the coming together of upcoming, established and pioneering arts practitioners, intellectuals, policy makers and patrons in powerful debate and energetic collaboration. 

Commenting on the launch of the website, communications and marketing manager of Arterial Network, Nancy Onyango, said, "We are extremely excited about the launch of the ACE Conference website which I hope will give artists, cultural entrepreneurs, researchers, arts practitioners, journalists and conference delegates the opportunity to follow us every step of the way by either getting program and logistics updates during the preparation of the event or real time updates of the conference proceedings. We have made the provision of interactivity on the website and relaying live updates via Twitter #ace2012dakar and on Facebook. Finally, launching of the website would not be possible without the incredible support of Nelam Services based in Senegal. We look forward to a successful event.'' 

The first conference on the African Creative Economy (ACE) was held at AACC Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2011. Over 120 delegates from 35 Africa countries and internationally attended the forum in East Africa. The 2011 conference assessed and shared some of the research done on the African creative economy. It also developed advocacy strategies in support of the African creative sector with a view to rigorously interrogate the available research and the relationship between the African creative economy and development, cultural diversity and other contemporary cultural themes

One of the key challenges identified at the founding conference of Arterial Network on Goree Island, Senegal in 2007 was the simple need of information on the African creative sector. In response to this need, the network has for the past five years compiled and distributed a regular monthly e-newsletter to its primary constituents – artists, cultural NGOs, creative enterprises and cultural institutions. Arterial Network also established a website www.artsinafrica.com that provides a comprehensive information on the arts, cultural heritage of each African country and published an Art and Culture information directory: an alternative to constituents who cannot access the online directory due to limited internet access owing to digital divide or poverty. 

For more information about Arterial Network, visit www.arterialnetwork.org.

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"Students of Social Media", or an article reminding us New Media is here to stay, and a necessary evil!

from: http://www.mndaily.com/2012/10/17/students-social-media

Students of social media

College should prepare us for an increasingly virtual world.
By
  • Daily Editorial Board
October 17, 2012

Being a college student means different things to different generations. Many of our parents have shared stories about the trauma of writing term papers on typewriters and using real, tangible paper; whiteout is not the savior it once was in the days before Microsoft Word. For us, life at school without access to a computer would be equally traumatic. In a social world filled with statuses, tweets, blog posts, Yelp-ing, foursquare-ing and being linked in, it's a wonder our minds haven't yet exploded.

However, the skills we acquire as social media aficionados are important and valuable in today's job market. According to an article published online by CNN, job postings seeking social media skills rose 87 percent from last year. It's only fitting that our education keeps up with the skills necessary for us to remain competitive job candidates in the "real world" — even if that world is increasingly virtual.

Social media classes should become a standard requirement in higher education; although navigating Facebook and Twitter is already second nature for most of us, there is a relatively new yet vast market of field-specific applications, networking websites and other useful online tools unknown to many students. Fluency in these tools and websites, now regularly sought out by employers, would be a boon to our networking capabilities and future career opportunities.

The concept of social media has become so much more than a trend — it's now an intrinsic part of our culture and the way we communicate. As such, it deserves an anthropomorphic and qualitative examination in the classroom. Social media is here to stay, and our education needs to prepare us with the necessary skills for an increasingly social world.


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Fwd: Reminder: " Who Rules the Internet? Join our Google hangout" is tomorrow

fyi!

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Date: 2012/10/17
Subject: Reminder: " Who Rules the Internet? Join our Google hangout" is tomorrow
To: ekbensah@gmail.com


Who Rules the Internet? Join our Google hangout
Don't forget, this event is happening tomorrow
Tomorrow, 18 October, 17:00 BST
Google+ hangout
276 people invited
Join us this Thursday for our hangout with +Jemima Kiss following our Battle for the Internet series - looking at the challenges facing the open web and who controls the internet ahead of the International Telecommunication Union conference in Dubai this December.

We'll be joined by experts across the world plus five selected readers, and we hope you can join us to watch the live event here on Google+. 

Our panellists include: - Alice Munyua, Chair of Kenya's internet Governance Steering Committee        
- David Drummond, Senior vice president, corporate development and chief legal officer, Google   
- Alexander Ntoko, Chief, operations and planning department, Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau, ITU
- Eleanor Saitta,Technical director, IMMI    

If you can't make it live, don't worry as we'll publish video highlights on guardian.co.uk after the hangout so you can watch the best bits and leave a comment.

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Emmanuel.K.Bensah Jr.
Communications Officer (Web Journalist)
COMMUNICATIONS UNIT
Third World Network-- Africa |9, Ollenu Street East Legon |P.O.Box AN 19452 Accra-Ghana
Tel:+233-302-511.189 // +233-302-503669| Fax:+233-302-511.188 |Mobile:+233-243-111.789 // +233-268 891.841
Web: www.twnafrica.org  |  Eml: ekbensah@twnafrica.org
BLOG: http://apps.twnafrica.org/BLOG
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Third-World-Network-Africa/131072278632
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**TWN Malaysia (International) Secretariat:
 http://www.twnside.org.sg
 
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http://www.redtercermundo.org.uy/
 
**TWN Geneva Office
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