The Daily IIJ

On August 18, 2010, I gave a presentation at the IIJ’s Summer Academy (actually, the earliest After Dinner Lecture ever, at 2 p.m. ). It took a while to get the slides ready for publication, but here they are. The topic of the presentation is how social media can be used in conflict situations. Are [...]

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Reporter Assaulted In Court The Lomé Magistrate Court on August 25, 2010 indefinitely banned Tribune d’Afrique, a privately-owned bi-monthly newspaper, for defaming Mey Gnassingbé, a brother of Togolese President, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) reported. The Tribune d’Afrique is published in Benin and circulated in both Benin and Togo. The [...]

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THE GENERAL Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Aidan White says journalists should never allow their independence to be exploited and manipulated by people, who have special interests. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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A TV station is telling that they are very shocked at the death of a bureau chief. On the other hand, an online newspaper is telling that ‘so called journalist’ has been killed. When I saw the news at My TV, one of our new private TV channels, I was shocked and told that another [...]

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The Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC), a pan African non-governmental organization promoting the right of access to information in Africa welcomes and congratulates the Cabinet and people of Sierra Leone upon adoption by Cabinet of the Freedom of Information Bill. In approving the Bill, Serra Leone is making a step in the right direction [...]

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Gagging Tactics Order of the Day African governments and factions are indisputably very much uncomfortable with the presence of the fourth estate of government, the media, thus gagging tactics of all sorts are adopted in various countries on the continent to silence what remains one of Africa’s most powerful and important institution. Recent reports gathered [...]

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Last Wednesday, we reached the central office of Unity Life International Limited in Jawalakhel to collect the information on protest programme being held inside its premises. Everyone knows that Unity is charged of involvement in illegal insurance and deposit collection business. Unity’s head office was under the control of the police and its members were [...]

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  A VOCIFEROUS Lawyer, Akoto Ampaw has identified some loopholes, one of which borders on National Security, in the Right to Information (RTI) Bill currently awaiting Parliamentary approval to be passed into law. According to the renowned legal brain, the negative thinking in the previous reviews of the bill has once again, been reproduced in [...]

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This was learning in a most unique pattern

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