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Article: MEDIA: CITIZEN JOURNALISM GAINS MOMENTUM IN AFRICA.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- October 19, 2007
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By Linus Atarah
HELSINKI, Finland, Oct. 19, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- New communication technologies are democratizing the media in Ghana. Indeed, anyone with a mobile phone can now call a radio station to remind a government minister of his pre-election promises.
This communication revolution is breaking down the strictures of a world in which official information used to be strictly disseminated on government-controlled radio or television stations.
Aida Opoku-Mensah, the director of information and communication technologies at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said these changes have ushered in greater transparency ...