The Citizen Journalism in Africa project seeks to develop the capacity of CSOs in the use and practice of citizen journalism. Six countries are targeted including Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

For this week, 7 - 11 April 2008, twelve CSO representatives from Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia are at the Protea Courtyard in Dar es Salaam participating in a ToT training. Right now we are learning about what makes the news. Yesterday we focused on the differences and similarities between professional journalists and citizen journalists. We also looked at the media environment in our respective countries and the opportunities and risks for citizen journalism.

On the technical side we looked at a variety of Web2.0. Truth be told, this blog is part of my homework for the class ;). We also looked at RSS and del.icio.us -- still need to set up my del.icio.us account.

WOUGNET is represented by myself and Berna (WOUGNET Advocacy Officer) at this ToT. You can follow the rest of my blog at: http://wougnet-cja.blogspot.com/

For more information about the CJA project, visit www.citizenjournalismafrica.org