Ushahidi won the Weblog of the Year award from Deutsche Welle at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday 22nd June, 2010 at the Planery Chamber of the World Conference Center where the Climate Change and the Media forum were on-going. According to award recipient – Erik Hersman; “The Ushahidi platform is an African technology innovation that is changing a lot of things, not least of which is the way that [...]
People all over the world continue to see climate change as a threat. The majority expect the media to not only inform the public about climate change, but also educate them about its consequences. At the same time, the number of people who aren’t concerned at all has risen in the last two years as well: from 4 percent in 2008 to 9 percent now. Those are just some of the results of a global study from the market research [...]
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum started yesterday with lots of discussion and talks from various idealists, Innovators, Climate Change Activists, Reporters and the media as a whole. The theme for the three-day international event in the German city of Bonn is; “The Heat Is On – Climate Change and the Media”. Representatives from science, politics, business and the media discussed what the media can do to create awareness for one of the major challenges of our time; Climate Change. [...]
