The local beat in Africa – brought to you by mobile phone


Deze post is alleen beschikbaar in het EngelsIn Africa, according to the International Telecommunication Union, the opportunity for new media developments is mainly on the mobile platform. Mobile phones now outnumber landlines 5-to-1, and 9-to-1 in subsahara Africa. With many of these phones outfitted with cameras and videorecording, this will of course impact the representation of African Cities. Will mobile phone-based citizen journalism play an important part in the way cities, their inhabitants and their stories are represented in the mediascape? The interesting Voices-of-Africa-project thinks it just might, and has started an initiative – working together with Dutch mobile reporting platform Skoeps.nl – in which reporters use their mobile phone to report in cities (and the countryside) in Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.