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 AFRICA CALLING: RADIO STATIONS ON THE INTERNET A list of African Radio Stations broadcasting on the Internet can be found on: http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/partial.html (URLs for the stations below may be found on the above page) Algeria -Radio Algrienne COMMONLINK LAUNCHES NEW EDUCATION WEB SITE CommonLink &SHY; Linking Global Citizens, a new educational web site exploring global citizenship and aimed at all schools internationally, will launch in June 2001.Created through a partnership between the Commonwealth Institute <www.commonwealth.org.uk> and the British Council Australia <www.britishcouncil.org.au>, CommonLink’s main feature is a series of moderated forums investigating topics as wide ranging as, among others, cultures, democracy, media, sport, fair trade, society and active participation in both accessible and challenging ways, and aimed at exploring how we are connected to each other locally and within the wider world. CommonLink provides a unique opportunity for Africans schools to participate in a truly international project and establish contact, make links and exchange ideas with their counterpart abroad. High profile guests will also be invited to the forums and pupils will be able to email them and receive personalised answers.The moderated forums are supported by background material on the topics dealt with, tips for discussions, links to other sites, information on the Commonwealth countries, polls, quizzes, virtual postcards, as well as guidelines for teachers on how to make the best of CommonLink.CommonLink will run until June 2003 and all African schools are invited to participate. For more information, please contact Paola Marchionni, Project Coordinator, at pmarchionni@commonwealth.org.uk. WEB ANIMATED MOVIE SATIRE ON ICANN ICANN plays a deeply important role in global internet governance but we couldn’t help chuckling at a piece of none too profound, web satire at its expense: http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/icannstage.html (source: Richard Bosire via Afrik-IT) US AFRICAN DIASPORA MUSIC SCENE There’s always a constant flow of announcements from the USA about different African music events and recording artists. Rosy! who claims to be the number one recording artist in Cameroon is playing the Oasis at Silver Spring, Maryland every Friday. Doors open at 11.30 pm. Other Cameroonian recording artists appearing include: Ndedi Eyango, Pierre Diddy Tchacounte and a surprise guest... For more info, visit: http://www.rosyonline.comor oasisofsilverspring.com Through http:// www.groovetech.com you can click on MR. Supreme’s weekly show April 30th at 4pm PST and see Ka’shana from THE BLOCK album. For more info: http://www.goldenrecord.com OVERVIEW OF STATE OF AFRICA’S INTERNET The US Internet Council State of the Internet Report 2000 finds that high connection costs, low incomes, poor infrastructure, illiteracy, lack of trained personnel, disinterest and a failure to understand the benefits of internet access continue to slow the expansion of computer penetration and internet use in Africa. See http://www.usic.org/ GHANA GOVT HINTS IT WILL STRENGTHEN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION The new government of President John Kufuor is giving indications that it will scrap those aspects of the Penal Code that criminalise freedom of expression. http://www.africaonline.com/site/sn/ (source: West Africa Newsletter) AFRICAN CENTURY MAGAZINE GOES ONLINE African Century’s first issue is now out and all the articles are available at http:// www.african-century.com.Developing the web site has not b een without unexpected technical problems. It is committed to developing a fully interactive site. Editor Dapo Ladfimeji says:"What is presently available is only the tip of the iceberg of what we are working on. We hope to have the graphics, comments and textual glitches sorted out in the next week or so". Make a note to go visit it in a week’s time. AFRICAN ARTISTS IN HOLLAND: ONLINE SURVEY RESULTS Africaserver has recently published a survey of over 30 African artists living / working in the Netherlands. For each of them it has included some artwork, a portrait, biography and a contact address . At the same time it has surveyed Dutch institutions active in the field of contemporary African art. Both surveys are in English and Dutch. The launch of this new module part of Art and Culture http://www.africaserver.nl/kunstcultuur/index_uk.htm was done in discussion with the African artists and the institutions involved. (source: Fons Geerlings, director, Africaserver )
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