The Daily IIJ

Kinda Makkia is a 24-year-old Syrian student at the Syrian Virtual University. As she is studying for MBA and needs to surf the net very often, she purchased the new 3G internet technology service from mobile phone provider, Syriatel, two months ago to solve her internet problems. ‘It is expensive and has many problems. Upload [...]

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The last check anyone in Berlin should make in the morning before stepping out of the house is to be sure there is the train ticket in the wallet.

 The Troublesome Wallet
This is a memorable story of “I’ve got mine!” A tale of having one’s ticket and yet not possessing it! So, I am  being [...]

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News and greetings from nature as personal and journalistic instincts takes the man from Nigeria to a special place on the Alps.

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Next Saturday August 30th, I will be heading home after two months in Germany. It had seem as if the day will never come. For someone with a busy lifestyle back home, it was difficult to get into this routine of getting back into the classroom. The longest I have been away from my country [...]

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Private cars were hardly seen in Freiburg. Streets of that typical South German town filled with bicycles and walkers. Only 35% people of Freiburg has personal cars. They seems to keen more of renewable energies, with all solar panels which can be easily find at the side of the roads.
Inside of the old town part, [...]

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Berliners are fed up with dog muck. Berlin, a city of 3.4 millions, to the outsiders seems run very well. But the dogs are big problems. Every day, 200.000 Berlin’s dogs produce 16 tons of muck. Most of it just lying on the street, not being pick up by the dog’s owners.

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When we set out 9 am from the guest house in Berlin on August 2 led by Tobias, the InWEnt assistant attached to the participants of the 2008 Multimedia and Online Journalism by International Institute of Journalism, we knew we were in for loads of fun but by the end of it all it surpassed [...]

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By Nasim Fekrat
I am in Kabul now. Over the last few weeks I was in Hamburg, Germany, for a Summer school on freedom and responsibilities in media. What a wonderful occasion and what wonderful people from 18 countries who I’ve met there. I miss all of them now and the only thing that remains with [...]

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Zimbabwe’s political and economic environment that has become a topical issue globally produces a good test case for media ethical practice. With an inflation that has gone over 2 million, 80% unemployment and a highly polarized society, divided on party politics, journalists have found themselves caught in the net of ethics. It’s either you are [...]

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