The Daily IIJ

A power sharing deal to resolve Zimbabwe’s crisis faces stillbirth as the major poliical parties failed to reach a compromise on Monday. Read more on Conrad Dube’s blog: http://mwanawashe.wordpress.com  

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a group of human rights and public interest organizations plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion, the New York Times reports. A wide range of organizations have participated in the effort but it is [...]

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The mood in the country right now is clear, Nigerians including me are very happy with the Federal Government of Nigeria’s decision to withdraw from next year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup. The only people that are sad right now are members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) whom many feel should be held responsible for [...]

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Participants of the IIJ advanced course in multimedia and online journalism created this videoclip streaming live to the internet from the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin using a Nokia N73 with a bluetooth microphone and GPRS data connection. They interviewed Måns Adler, founder Jonas Vig of the live-broadcasting service Bambuser, a competitor of Qik.com. The reporter [...]

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Myanmar military is using child soldiers, as Burma Patnership said. The pro democrazy organization published the reports in Post Nargis Analysis-The Other Side of the Story (PONJA) in Jakarta, and exposed the facts. Burma Patnership gathered their reports on field by collecting testimonies from former child soldier and observations.

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As  global markets plunge and individuals investments and savings are put at risk, they is one market that seems to be providing the much required return on investments and guess what, its the Zimbabwe stock Exchange.

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Unlike in USA, Britain, Iceland and probably German where the talk is about economic depression and how to best handle the crisis situation, in Africa it is the same old story Fighting for leadership, wars and poverty. However it has been punctuated with a new slogan, “He has betrayed us.”

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I had my first experience with planning and scripting for a podcast, last week. It was also my first hands on experience working with Audacity. What a wonderful experience it was. Once again Joachim Vogele was up to the task, sitting besides me to share with me his experience. There was Kat also, old time [...]

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It’s been a while since i have been back home and actually this is my first contribution to this blog. I am not much of a writer when it comes to human issues because my focus has been financial reporting for a while now so I guess i will not feel ok without writing about [...]

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Growing up as a child I never really realized the import of celebrating Nigeria’s independence from her British colonial masters. What I do know though is that we use to look forward to October 1 just like we looked forward to children’s day celebration May 27th.

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