Kwa maneno yao wenyewe:

In 2007, a group of Kenyans decided to start thinking about ways in which our country’s demi-centenary, in 2013, could be approached. We thought that one of the ways in which it is important to mark Kenya’s 50th Birthday is by telling the inspiring story of Kenyan achievements in the last fifty years. We wanted to celebrate ordinary every-day heroes, in a variety of fields of endeavour who have taught us and challenged us as Kenyans, by their lives. Indeed, we would focus specifically on those Kenyans whose life-spans have mirrored that of this wonderful country of ours: Kenyans born since 1963. We would document these lives through beautiful fine art photographs, and attempt to put down a record of our times through the recounting of these extraordinary and well-lived Kenyan lives in well written socio-biographies by professional writers. This was the idea behind GenerationKenya, the project.

Bonyeza hapa uende kwenye tovuti yao.

Watu wenye fikra za kuanzisha miradi yenye kulenga kuwezesha wananchi kuwa maripota wanaweza kujifunza toka kwenye mradi toka nchini Ecuador uitwao “My Mobile Voice.”

Mi Voz Móvil (My Mobile Voice) is a project in citizen journalism from the newspaper Ultimas Noticias in Quito, Ecuador. The mobile van travels to neighborhoods where they conduct workshops for aspiring citizen journalists. In many cases, individuals that have submitted news see their stories side-by-side with the professional journalists.

Soma habari hiyo.

Halafu ule mzozo unaotokana na picha ya Muhammad umeingia hadi kwenye Wikipedia. Umeingia vipi?:

Another storm is brewing in the Arab world regarding the depiction of Prophet Muhammad in drawings after Wikipedia refused the demands of more than 180,000 people who called for the illustrations to be removed.

Bonyeza hapa.
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Dan Schultz ameandika kwenye blogu ya Media Shift, Idea Lab, juu ya tukio moja ambalo amelitumia kuonyesha nguvu ya Intaneti kuleta mabadiliko nje ya Intaneti. Tukio hili ni lile ambalo limeelezwa kuwa ni vita dhidi ya Kanisa la Scientology. Vita hii inaendeshwa na watu wasiojulikana ni akina nani (akina anonimasi) kwa kutumia wiki, blogu, video za mtandaoni, n.k. “Vita” hii wameiita Project Chanology. Mwezi uliopita walielekeza mashambulizi yao kwenye tovuti ya Kanisa la Scientology na kuizima tovuti hiyo na nyingine za kanisa hilo. Watu hawa hawana kiongozi na wanasema “wako kila mahali.” Wikipedia inawaelezea hivi:

Project Chanology, also called Operation Chanology, is a protest against the Church of Scientology by the Internet-based group Anonymous. Project Chanology also refers to a website of the same name, used by the group to chronicle ongoing and planned actions by Anonymous, who state they are “everyone and everywhere”, with “no leaders”. The project was started in response to the Church of Scientology’s attempts to remove material from an exclusive promotional interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet in January 2008.

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Ukipata nafasi uwe unatembelea blogu ya AfriGadget. Kila ninapozungumza juu ya blogu Afrika lazima niitumie kama mfano mzuri sana wa jinsi blogu zinaripoti habari ambazo huwa zinatokea kwa nadra sana kwenye vyombo vya habari vya jadi. Au blogu zenye kuripoti mambo ya msingi katika maendeleo ya Afrika. AfriGadget inaonyesha ubunifu na “uanasayansi” unaoendelea Afrika. Soma habari hii kuhusu baiskeli zinazotengenezwa kwa kutumia mianzi! Soma pia na habari nyingine kwenye blogu hiyo.

AfriGadget imeanzisha mradi unaokuhitaji. Unaitwa The Grassroots Reporting Project.

One of our goals at AfriGadget is to find more stories of African ingenuity. The Grassroots Reporting Project is our plan to find, equip and train more AfriGadget reporters in the field throughout Africa…A combination of mobile phones and computers will be assigned to individuals in 10 African countries for the purpose of getting more on-the-ground reporting of stories of African ingenuity to the world. An AfriGadget editor will be in charge of identifying the best candidates for inclusion in the program. This editor will also travel to each country to train and equip the new AfriGadget reporters for the program.

Waliohudhuria mkutano wa TEDGlobal 2007 mjini Arusha watakwambia kuwa watapenda kuhudhuria kila mwaka. Tuliohudhuria mwaka jana (kupitia skolashipu zao), tulipata kompyuta mpya za mapajani na redio za satelaiti. Muulizeni Mwenye Macho atawaambia umuhimu wa mkutano kama huu.

Sasa mwaka huu TEDGlobal inafanyika Cape Town. Na kuna nafasi 50 za skolashipu. Omba, huwezi kujua. Ukitaka jina la kuunga mkono maombi yako unaweza kunitumia LAKINI BAADA YA KUNIULIZA NAMI KUKUBALI. Na pia ni vyema nikiwa nakufahamu au najua kazi zako. Bonyeza hapa uende kwenye fomu ya maombi (wamesisitiza kuwa waombaji wawe wanaishi Afrika). Pia unaweza kusoma hapa niliyoandika kuhusu TEDGlobal 2007 pale Arusha.

Globe and Mail la Canada limeandika makala kuhusu wanablogu wa Kenya wakati na baada ya wizi uliopewa jina la uchaguzi. Katika makala hii wanablogu Rebecca na Juliana wamehojiwa. Imeelezea, pamoja na mambo mengine, jinsi ambavyo blogu na mabaraza ya mtandaoni yanavyoweza kutumiwa kuchochea ugomvi:

…Kenyan blogs proved themselves susceptible to the same risks as blogs anywhere else in the world: as conduits for strident partisan opinion. In a fractious federal state comprising diverse peoples who weren’t especially consulted by the British when the country’s borders were drawn up around them, the same pattern of ethnic incitement that led to bloodshed throughout the country also took to the Web.

It went beyond blogging. One of the country’s leading online forums, formerly at Mashada.com, had to be shut down after the conversation took an ugly race-baiting turn. The site has since returned, promoting a new project: a site called I Have No Tribe (www.ihavenotribe.com), espousing a spirit of pan-tribal nationalism in response to the crisis.

Isome makala nzima hapa.

Chris Blattman, Profesa wa Chuo Kikuu cha Yale, ameandika juu YouTube inavyotumika kama mahali pa kuhifadhi video kuhusu waasi na viongozi wao nchini Sudan na Uganda:

YouTube is turning into a surprising source of archival videos on rebels and rebel leaders.

Bonyeza hapa utaona viungo vya video zenyewe.

Kauli mbiu ya Obama ni, “Ndio, tunaweza.” Anasema alipoanza kutangaza nia yake ya kugombea urais watu walimwambia hataweza. Sasa atimua vumbi huku akisema, Yes We Can. Sasa kampeni za video zimepamba moto siku hizi. Mwanamuziki wa kundi la Black Eyed Peas, Will.i.am ametoa video inayosambazwa kwa haraka sana mtandaoni. Amechanganya siasa, muziki, teknolojia na sanaa. Bonyeza hapa.

Sikutaka kutafsiri kichwa hicho cha makala hiyo. Ni makala iliyoandikwa na mwandishi na mwanablogu Andrew Heavens. Andrew alikuwa akiishi Ethiopia ila amehamia Sudan. Makala hii inayonyesha jinsi ambavyo teknolojia kama blogu zinavyowapatia nafasi ya kujieleza watu ambao staili zao za maisha hazikubaliwi na watu wengi katika jamii za Afrika na Urabuni. Bonyeza hapa uisome.

Baada ya tovuti ya mashada.com kuanza kutumiwa kama uwanja wa kusambaza chuki za kikabila kufuatia ujambazi wa demokrasia uliofanyika nchini Kenya, David Kobia ameamua kuja na kampeni ya kuondoa ukabisa nchini Kenya kwa kufungua tovuti inayosema, sina kabila. Bonyeza hapa uone ihavenotribe.com

Tungaraza kaandika kwenye blogu ya Global Voices Online kuhusu yaliyojiri kwenye blogu za Kiswahili kufuatia kashfa kubwa mno Afrika ya wizi wa mchanamchana ulioongozwa na mwizi wa mali ya umma, Lowassa, na wenzie. Kaandika:

With the house of assembly in the fast mode, Swahili bloggers have been posting updates of events as they take place at the parliament house in the Tanzanian capital Dodoma from day one.

On Wednesday, Mrocky posted a photograph of the chairman of the parliamentary select committee Dr Harrison Mwakyembe, as he walks into the National Assembly to present the executive summary of the commission’s findings.

Bonyeza hapa usome habari nzima.

Nimerudi baada ya kupata tatizo ambalo linatokana na kujumuisha biashara na urafiki. Mwenye kutunza blogu yangu ni rafiki yangu sana. Jeff alinishtua kuwa kuna tatizo. Basi kumwandikia jamaa barua hazijibiwi. Kumbe eti yuko kwenye barafu anateleza! Kwakuwa ni rafiki, hata kulalamika sana huwezi. Haya, yameisha. Nashukuru walionishtua kuwa Jikomboe haipatikani. Haya, tuendelee….

Siku kadhaa zilizopita Juliana aliandika habari kuhusu matumizi ya Webu 2.0 kwenye harakati za mazingira. Ni habari yenye mifano mingi mizuri sana kwa watu walioko kwenye masuala ya harakati za kutunza mazingira. Aliandika:

we take a look at how environmental bloggers and activists are using web 2.0 tools to bring attention to issues ranging from deforestation, conservation and global warming, and the Web 2.0 tools being used to share information, photos, videos and raise funds.

Bonyeza hapa uisome habari hiyo aliyoiita: Using Web2.0 tools for Environmental Activism.