Employing ICTs to Bridge the Rural-Urban Divide: Radio Listening Clubs
MAZABUKA, Zambia - Deep in the heart of Zambia’s rural and impoverished Southern Province, where access to information is scarce and local concerns often go ignored, women are making sure their voices are heard - literally.
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Promoting Media Diversity by Linking Journalists with Researchers
ZOMBA, Malawi - Too often in southern Africa, important research on HIV/AIDS, agriculture, land, globalisation and a host of other topics fails to reach the people affected the most. Instead of being communicated to policymakers, businesses, NGOs and the general public through the media, research findings remain mired within the academic community.
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Giving Journalists the Tools to Cover Globalisation
LUSAKA, Zambia - After more than 14 years as a reporter, editor and now a freelance writer for the Times of Zambia, Mildred Mpundu understands the impact that globalisation has had on southern Africa, from the plight of Zambian coffee farmers to the influence of South African supermarket chains.
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Access to Treatment Finding the Story Behind the Story
LUSAKA, Zambia - When Zarina Geloo, a journalist in Lusaka, Zambia, discovered that local HIV and AIDS patients were developing resistance to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) - forcing them to start “second-line treatment” - she knew she was on to an important story.
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