We Media in the developing world

Posted by Martin Stabe on 3 May 2006 at 10:59
Tags: BBC, Journalism, We Media

It’s the second panel discussion of the We Media Conference at BBC Television Centre.

There are plenty of ways of following what is being said here. All the proceedings today are being webcast live by the BBC. The organisers are also encouraging the many bloggers and Flickr users in the room to use the tag “wemedia” when uploading content about today’s conference. That should make it easy to find information on Technorati, del.icio.us, and Flickr.

The next speaker is Nitin Desai, a special advisor to the UN secretary general, discussing the role of new media technologies in developing countries, including democratisation. Desai notes that recen pro-democracy street protests where often organised by mobile phones. The most recent example, he said, was Nepal, but similar things also happened in Ukraine. In these countries, the local media was not free, but personal media were widely available, as were international satellite broadcasts.

Tags: BBC, Journalism, We Media