Highway Africa 2011: About media and sustainability

highway africa, sustainability, livelihoodsI was in Cape Town last week at the Highway Africa Conference.
Highway Africa is a project of Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). It is supported by many sponsors, like the South African government, Telkom, MTN and the Absa bank.

I was in Cape Town last week at the Highway Africa Conference.

Highway Africa is a project of Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). It is supported by many sponsors, like the South African government, Telkom, MTN and the Absa bank.

highway africa, livelihoods, sustainability

For fourteen years the Highway Africa conference has been at the centre of Africa’s debates on journalism and new media, said the organisers. The conference has over the years become the largest annual gathering of African journalists in the world.  This year, the conference took place in Cape Town, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), 17-19 September 2011.

The Reporting Development Forum bring together Africa’s top media professionals, communication for development experts, government communication staff and academics to debate issues including : media and Africa’s development agenda (health, economics, trade and agriculture), business and Sustainability.

highway africa, livelihoods, sustainability

 
Sustainable development in the face of climate change was the theme of this 15th annual Highway Africa conference. It is thus no surprise that the workshops dealing with climate change and the media responsibility towards it were some of the best attended at the conference. Here is the report on how this dilemma was discussed at the Conference.

Talking-green by livelihoods

How are you going to reinvent yourself? What is the next you?

Innovation in the media was also the focus of discussions and exchanges during the Highway Africa Conference.

Koos Bekker the Group Chief Executive of Naspers delivered a keynote address on Saturday the 17th. Bekker discussed a subject as complex as innovation in ICT in a quite funny way… Just listen !

Koos-Bekker-Innovation-and-reinvention by livelihoods

Nadine.