Ethan Zuckerman's blog My Heart's in Accra is wonderful. Recently he did a post which was a presentation at Netsquared on Advocay and Citizen Journalism www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/ It wasn't the main point of the post, worth reading in full, but I was struck by an observation:

"When we started working on Hao’s case, we were representing him, speaking on his behalf. There are situations where this is what advocates have to do - Nina can blog, while Darfuri refugees can’t. But the lesson we’ve taken from the situation is that advocacy is changing in the 21st century. It’s less about speaking on behalf of people and more about helping their voices to be heard. It’s less about speaking and more about pointing."

It's so great ot have a many-to-many media! A new blog is launched called AfriGadget. I thought Evil C might be interested, and all the rest too www.afrigadget.com/ Of course it will only be interesting with a lot of show and tell! They put up a Flickr group too flickr.com/groups/afrigadget/

So if you've got pictures post them. But even better if you know people in Africa encourage them to contribute. Simple good ideas can help everyone and it can be fun too.