Told to explain digital storytelling I would not mince my words! Whether I would fail to differentiate it between a tool and a method, I would certainly say it is a technique used to tell a story, share experience by converging audio, still pictures and video with the aid of Windows Movie Maker or any other program with the same purpose.
What makes digital storytelling a unique tool or technique is in the creativity of how pictures, audio and videos can be synchronised to have resounding effect. Pictures themselves, whether still or in motion have a message behind them and if these are converged with narration in a digital storytelling way, you can’t imagine how insurmountable the effect could be.
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Submitted by abubaker on Wed, 2008-01-23 16:29.
Input is beginning to emerge on some of the critical issues that the Harambee Project needs to do in order to address the much desired practice of sharing information and knowledge.
It would be interesting to note that the Harambee Coordination Committee set up some necessary platforms that would enhance sharing. These platforms were deemed as a standard for continued engagement. Network coordinators who lacked capacity to use them were trained and for a while it seemed things would be fine. Those who couldn’t be trained face-to-face had their fair share through online training.
Whereas the Coordination Committee remains true to these standards, network coordinators who in this case are the actual implementers of the Harambee project slackened. Platforms like dgroups, wiki, blogs and Drupal managed website are under-utilised therefore causing a huge concern and frustration.
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Submitted by abubaker on Mon, 2008-01-21 16:17.
It is not poor workmanship that we should lay blame on the tools. Preparations for this January 2008 workshop although in earnest are hectic.
Festive season blues as we know them are such a big hindrance in jumpstarting people from leisure moments to serious activities. Already, one participant from Zimbabwe has backed out saying she just emerged from leave and has a backlog at her office.
Concluding flight connections has been like a tug of war for some participants arriving from West Africa. Hotel reservations like the coordination committee may recall was a different venue from what we currently have although this is not to say we’ve resorted to second best. Protea Hotel is equally good and situated in one of the historical suburbs of Kampala.
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Submitted by abubaker on Sat, 2008-01-12 15:11.
Time like the saying goes is one of the limited resources that needs to be managed well.
The Harambee Project since its creation by an informal group of donors and executing agencies known as the Partnership for ICTs in Africa—PICTA, metamorphosed into action when the Addis meeting convened in 2004 to develop an outline of proposal upon which project proponents—also known as Focus Networks would base their action plans for implementation.
A few years down the line since the actual implementation started in 2005, Harambee is still struggling in achieving on its most desired aim of reinforcing collaboration and the implied knowledge sharing that comes with it.
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Submitted by abubaker on Fri, 2008-01-11 11:36.
As Phase 2 of the Harambee Project being coordinated by Bellanet Africa draws to an end, the Harambee Coordination Committee is organizing a workshop to consolidate the learning from the project as well as charter a way forward for the future. In addition, there will be a training in Digital Storytelling to support documentation of network experiences.
Bellanet Africa will host this face-to-face workshop in Entebbe, Uganda from 14th-17th January 2008 under the theme ‘A stop on the Harambee safari: achievements, challenges, learnings and opportunities. ‘Safari’ being a Swahili for ‘long journey’ that aptly depicts the Harambee experience.
The workshop will bring together about 23 participants from the Harambee project partners, researchers, and participants from other knowledge sharing networks in Africa.
For more information on the workshop, please visit the Harambee wiki
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Submitted by jacqueline on Tue, 2007-12-04 10:57.
Health soil is the foundation of sustainable agriculture. It produces healthy crops that in turn nourish people. There are increasing ways for subject-based networks and other agricultural communities of practice to find and share information about Soil Health and also learn from each other. ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa), a capacity building organization that aims at enhancing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills for African librarians, information specialists, scientists, researchers and students in Sub-Sahara Africa is currently implementing the Soil Health Networks project. This project aims to identify all existing Soil Health networks and encourage them to share information across African networks that have similar goals with the project. The project has about 150 user respondents who are basically Soil Health specialists across Africa and several other networks beyond Africa.
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Submitted by lillian on Fri, 2007-10-05 13:00.
The lack of interest in networking processes by many agencies involved in 'children at risk' has been highlighted as one of the key salient features facing Viva Africa Network. The network comprising 12 members from South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, Zambia and Burundi, works to increase action on behalf of children, improve quality of care for children and influence decision makers to benefit children. The network is also faced with limited finances for children at risk activities, increased number of children at risk in Africa due to political causes, poverty, neglect by the International community, limited skills in the areas of care and development of children and limited support from governments in Africa for child related issues. Overcoming these obstacles will require an increase in the concern for the plight of children in war areas like Internally Displaced Places (IDPs) in Uganda and Dafur, flood affected areas of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, which is currently under political tension.
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Submitted by lillian on Sat, 2007-09-22 15:22.
Step by step! The fast moving technology innovations will definitely bring a smile to power disadvantaged people in the developing world. You will agree with me electricity has been and still is, one of the biggest challenges of most ICT projects. Let's not lose hope, each day something comes up, and with time all will be considered history. In Cairo at a conference organized by Global Development Network Knowledge Management as an Enabler of Change and Innovation in Africa, H.E. John Nasambu - Minister of State for ICT, Government of Uganda made a presentation on the Inveneo Computing Station.
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Submitted by faridah on Fri, 2007-07-06 11:05.
MEXICO, Mexico -- Viva Network sees effective networking among Christian organisations as a stepping-stone to making a difference for the children of the world. Its focus on networking training, governance, and facilitation makes Viva Network a perfect example of the benefits of collaborative effort - just what the Harambee Small Grants Facility was founded to support.
Based in Uganda, Viva Network Africa is one of four regional offices of an international organisation that seeks to strengthen community work rooted in a Christian commitment "to bring more children better care". It is a network of networks - Viva accompanies networks at every stage of their development - from first establishing themselves as a group of organisations working together, staffing, building a governing body, skills training in child care, even how to handle burn out.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In developing countries around the world, the spread of HIV/AIDS is contributing to a growing number of orphans who prematurely assume responsibility for their siblings. In Uganda, it is not unusual to find children – usually boys – as young as eight years-old acting as household heads. Boys tend to head households because Ugandan culture prescribes that they adopt that responsibility, even if they have older sisters. Also, relatives are often restricted in their ability to provide support due to limited resources and choose to take in girls, who are seen to be more vulnerable, rather than boys.
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