Africa: Civil Society gets toolkit to amplify marginalized voices

Scour the Net and you're sure to be deafened by a mushrooming of sites dedicated to a novel megaphone in the media world: Citizen Journalism. This advocacy tool is rapidly changing the media landscape and its potential in enabling ordinary citizens to evolve into shapers of news has been seized upon by Hivos (Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries) and SANGONet (South African NGO Network). Together they have launched the Citizen Journalism in Africa project.