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Search guru Stephen Arnold's online list of search sites, from Angola to Yugoslavia.

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) on Thursday, October 9, 2002, circulated a notice calling on Namibian media practitioners to give their input to the formulation of a new Information Policy for Namibia. The workshop is currently in progress in the Blue Room at the Continental Hotel in Independence Avenue, Windhoek.

The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF) will host a bosberaad on the 18 - 19 October 2002 in Johannesburg.

The Zimbabwe government has announced that it will soon take to parliament a Bill to amend the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA). The amendments are meant to plug what the government call loopholes in the media law. The Bill will however result in more powers being accorded to the Mass Media Commission and many of the so-called loopholes amount to nothing in offering a reprieve to media houses and journalists.

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19 and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will be holding a five-day information and communications technologies (ICT) policy and civil society workshop from November 6th to 10th, 2002 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Zimbabwe has launched a second electronic learning company (E-Learning), Learning Resources, set to equip both the corporate world and the public with the necessary skills to tackle new challenges within the science and technlogy arena.

Partnerships between NGOs based in the ‘North’ and the ‘South’ have become a key part of international development processes. Whilst NGOs are drawn to the concept of partnership as an expression of solidarity that goes beyond financial aid, in practice the power relations of donor-recipient often skew this potential.

This is a regional strategic communications training course aimed at equipping NGO activists with skills in health promotion, advocacy and general publicity for development programmes and projects.

Sudanese officials have been accused again of trying to intimidate Faisal el-Bagir, a journalist and member of the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT). El-Bagir was arrested at his home in Khartoum on October 7, shortly after he arrived back to Sudan from Cairo and Dakar, where he had been attending an international meeting on freedom of expression organised by the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).

This is a two-week training course organised by the Institute of Cultural Affairs Ghana and ICA:UK that will equip participants with the practical group facilitation methods developed and practiced globally by ICA over the past 30 years and give participants the opportunity to practice those methods in a "safe" environment.

The public media’s coverage of the fuel shortages and the just ended local government elections further illustrated the undesirability of government’s control of the media. The public media confined its coverage of the two issues to defending government’s handling the fuel crisis without explaining what was really happening, while simply ignoring the violent intimidation of the opposition in the recent polls.

The Ugandan independent 'Monitor' daily newspaper, whose operations have been suspended over a controversial story, is now facing court action on charges of "publishing false information" regarding sensitive state security matters, a senior army official said on Monday.

"Aid Workers Exchange" is an experimental weekly e-mail for knowledge sharing amongst field staff in humanitarian relief and international development. To subscribe write to [email protected] with the title "subscribe".

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This paper scrutinizes the language of government reports and news media sources to shed light on their role in forming a negative image of politically motivated hacking in general, and online political activism, in particular. It is argued that the mass media's portrayal of hacking conveniently fits the elite's strategy to form a popular consensus in a way that supports the elite's crusade under different pretexts to eradicate hacking, an activity that may potentially threaten the dominant order.

Wainaina Mungai's paper for the Second International Conference of the African Youth Foundation (AYF) on Technology and Human Development in Africa (June 2002) provides a useful framework for discussion, as well as examples of positive and negative effects of the Internet in several fields.

The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded. Visit this site for the official press release and read the lectures by the winners.

"Press freedom is very limited in the territories under the RCD's control. Many journalists have been arrested, threatened or assaulted in the region since the start of the conflict," notes RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard in a letter to RCD President Adolphe Onusumba Yemba.

A media awards programme has been launched to promote and encourage more informed, consistent reporting, analysis of the information society and issues related to the development potential and impact of Information and Communication Technologies.