Tag: panos
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The Rise of the Working-Class Network Society…
I had a fantastic and energising talk with my old Panos London colleague Murali Shanmugavelan just now, during which he urged me to read Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Here are some extracts of that book, via Google. Just skimming the first few pages,…
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Ndesanjo in Metro: “Now the terrorists have seized the front page, who will tell Africa anything at all?”
[Originally published on Panos London’s AfricaVox here.] A day of high contrast for Ndesanjo, with the relief of finally getting down to business in Gleneagles overshadowed by the attacks on London yesterday. And I thought, wait a minute, why do the leaders of the world’s most advanced ‘democracies’ meet so far away from the people…
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Joel Okao live on Sky News
[Originally published on Panos London’s AfricaVox here.] Joel Okao live (in the background) on Sky News during Prime Minister Tony Blair’s end-of-summit briefing.
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John Kamau’s BBC Online diary – Updated links
[Originally published on Panos London’s AfricaVox here.] John has provoked considerable debate over on BBC Online’s pages, and I am not surprised. He’s given a fresh and candid perspective on the experiences of an African journalist covering an international summit, and today’s diary in particular shows the considerable frustrations that African journalists have to put…
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John Kamau on today’s bombings in London
[Originally published on Panos London’s AfricaVox here.] After this morning’s terror attacks on London, the atmosphere around the Gleneagles media centre changed markedly, and the tone of John’s piece for BBC Online reflects that sombre mood: The air is now extremely gloomy up here and I am not finding the excitement and energy that I…
Sameer Padania 