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Yes. I do believe that if you're a regular visitor, you have already seen this picture, or something like it
here. Trumpets blow, pls. It's the so-called "Ghana-India Kofi Annan ICT Centre of Excellence". A cumbersome title indeed, and a cumbersome URL, to boot!:
http://www.aiti-kace.com.gh Truth be told, however, it is the sub-region of West Africa's
quintessential ICT Centre, with state-of-the-art computers, and a place, where there is regular ICT hub-bub-ing, of sorts;-)
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Here is the entrance into the building. You first have to go through a narrow gate (I guess to register your presence, 'cos when you don't, a man hisses at you (classic call to strangers in Ghana) motioning you to pass through). I took this picture yesterday as I made the intrepid step to attend the open "seminar" on "e-media". On the panel were reputed journalists from Ghana's local scene (you can check out the names
here) in radio, newspaper editting, including the Africa correspondent for the
BBC Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, and former editor of Ghana's premier Saturday paper
Daily Mirror...who is also my former boss at work!;-)
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Here's a snapshot of the audience who appeared to be listening intently to ideas on whether the new tools for the media (mini-disc; Cool-Edit software; video camera with laser backup discs(!); etc) will as much as hinder us as they will help journalists improve news-writing...and the journalist!! (given how blogging is threatening to take over the qualified jorunalists)
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To the right is Dorothy Gordon, DIrector-General of the ICT Centre, and to the left is
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo. His brief profile is enviable:
Kwaku Sakyi-Addo is a freelance journalist working part-time for BBC World service as a television correspondent. An experienced journalist and television presenter in Ghana, Sakyi-Addo has conducted many roundtables for the media in his country. Sakyi-Addo is interested in using journalism as a means for improving the lives of persons involved in the urban agriculture food production chain. from:
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-93818-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Tags:
e-media;
ghana media ;
accra ;
ghana ict ;
ghana ict journalism ;
ghana journalism ;
kofi annan ict centre ;
ecowas ;
ecowas ict;
bbc africa ;
kwasi gyan-apenteng ;
ghana mirror ;
ghana;
ghana journalists ;
ofori-atta ;
citifm ;