Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Websites that changed the world

Today is the second day of the training, and we’ve been surfing quite much. The network is wonderfully fast, at least with most of the computers.

I have showed the participants some of the websites listed in an article by the British newspaper The Observer as “Websites that changed the world”.

So we have visited the American shopping site eBay, we’ve edited the grammar of the Kiswahili language article about Finland on Wikipedia, we’ve seen a funny football video on YouTube, and also explored the Google map of the local city of Bukoba and a close-up satellite image of the building where we are sitting at the moment, namely the Bank of Tanzania Training Institute in Mwanza.

The participants have also opened their blogs today, with the first introductory postings.

Noel Joram from St. Augustine University has made a good summary about yesterday’s training, about buying the train tickets and comparing information about internet usage in different parts of the world.

George Ramadhan, local correspondent of Nipashe newspaper, also comments on the statistics and the surprise that Tanzania is dragging behind the neighbouring Kenya and Uganda in the number of internet users.

For Kiswahili readers, please see the full reports of Wilson Elisha from Radio Free Africa, or Anthony Komanya, the Shinyanga correspondent of Uhuru newspaper.

On the right, you can find links to some of the participants’ blogs. I will try to link everyone there as soon as possible.

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