Eco-Journalism Workshop with Goethe Institut Nigeria
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The workshop is part of an ongoing series initiated in Lagos in 2011. Called ‘j-hub.cc – common content’, the workshop series takes as its point of departure the current transformation of journalistic practice through online / mobile media. While these developments challenge established forms of organizing news production, their business models and audience assumptions, they also give rise to new media actors with little professional training that ‘do journalism’ without any relationship to the traditions and ethics of journalistic practice.
In today’s media and news environments, journalists are expected to incorporate a wide range of professional skills into their daily work. J-Hub partners offer a week-long workshop that introduces participants to both key trends in online and mobile journalism and provides practical introductory skills in the areas of online research, multimedia editing, photo journalism, and use of real-time/social media tools. Workshop activities include brief lectures/tutorials, individual and collaborative exercises, field research, and reflexive processing sessions in a game-based format.
Ambitious in scope, it is designed to enable participants from a wide range of professional backgrounds to effectively employ digital media tools in their work. Experienced facilitators take participants through all stages of digital media production and cover the entire journalistic workflow.
The workshop provides every participant with a comprehensive reader including all texts and worksheets used throughout the workshop. Featuring current research and policy perspectives on key approaches to eco-journalism, the reader is also made available in an online version.
The state-of-the-art electronic publishing platform provided by J-Hub core partner Sourcefabric facilitates the editing and remixing of this content to support the production of follow-up materials for distribution/use in the media and news organizations of workshop participants. A representative from Sourcefabric will be present throughout the workshop to incorporate concrete suggestions on how to a) upgrade newsrooms in terms of online and mobile journalism and b) optimize newsroom workflows to improve eco-journalistic coverage. Sourcefabric provides free software tools and platforms and has extensive experience in working with a wide variety of media organizations.
Date : Tuesday 13th – 16th March, 2012
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm
Venue: Co-creation Hub, 6th Floor, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba
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Google+ Hackathon – Falling in love with the Google+ API
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Hello Nigerian developers! After the successful Hackathons in South Africa and Kenya which saw some amazing applications built, we want to continue spreading the love!
There will be a Google+ Hackathon with the support of the Google Technology User Group (GTUG) in Lagos. If you are ready to wow us with your application, please apply for the event using this form: Lagos for the event on the March 17 at the CCHub Nigeria.
Remember to start today on getting those creative juices flowing! Familiarize yourself with the API and review these resources. Begin gathering ideas and coding a little. Use the Hackathon to perfect your application and win one of the multiple prizes we will be awarding – including a ticket for the overall winning application to Google’s premiere developer event, Google I/O!
Any updates relating to these Hackathons and the Hangout will be posted on Google+ (of course!) using the hashtag #hackgplus. Stay tuned!
Date : Saturday 17th of March, 2012
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm
Venue: Co-creation Hub, 6th Floor, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba
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Culture Shift Hackathon Organized by British Council & Co-Creation Hub Nigeria.
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British Council in conjunction with Co-Creation Hub is inviting members of the community (technology developers, designers, branding and marketing professionals, and business analysts) to apply to participate in the Culture Shift project, themed ‘ICT for Festivals Development.’
About the project
- Culture Shift is a partnership-led, British Council-managed competitive innovation fund.
- It will provide an opportunity for emerging creatives to bypass what are often the most inhibiting factors in the progression of good ideas – access to seed funding and expert mentorship.
- Selected festival managers will work in collaboration with technology developers and designers, and business experts to create web and mobile solutions for use in festivals, and then compete for seed finance to realise the projects.
- Winning idea will receive Naira Equivalent of £5,000 and two others £1,500 each.
For whom:
- Software developers, designers (graphic, web and user-experience), branding and marketing professionals, and business analysts.
When:
The project will take place in three phases:
1. Stage 1b: 3-day ‘Hackathon’: 17th, 18th and 19th March
2. Pitching for seed funding: 19th March 2012
3. Mentoring and Fruition: April – September 2012
Venue:
Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), 6th Floor, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos
Applications:
Software Developers | Graphic Designers | Business Analysts | Branding and Marketing professionals
Interested persons should download the application form here and email completed forms to cep.nigeria@ng.britishcouncil.
Applicants must:
1. Have a history of and familiarity with technology tools development
2. Be willing to commit a few hours a week to the Culture Shift project, expected to last between 8 – 12 months. Applicants selected to receive the seed fund will be required to develop the final product from prototype stage.
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An evening with Vytas Paukstys – CEO Eskimi
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Eskimi’s penetration in Nigeria still stuns most observers with 2.4+m of its global 5+m registered users based in Nigeria.
The mobile networking platform currently boast of adding 10,000+ new users daily in Nigeria with 130,000+ unique Nigerians accessing the site on average per day. This success story highlights the potential size of the mobile social networking market in Nigeria.
In a first of its kind engagement with the Nigerian Tech Community, CcHUB will be hosting Vytas Paukstys; the CEO of Eskimi on Wednesday 7th of March, 2012. Vytas will present Eskimi’s plan for the Nigerian market while enlightening local developers on how to leverage the platform’s API, invaluable marketing tools and support for their apps.
His presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session.
Join us for this opportunity to gain rare insight into the immense Nigerian social networking market!!!
Date: Wednesday 7th of March, 2012
Time: 5:30 – 8:30pm
Venue: Co-creation Hub, 6th Floor, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo Yaba
Register here. www.eventbrite.com/event/2791333955
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Tech-In Education Top 6 Ideas Announced!!!
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After a detailed selection process including interviewing the proponents of the top ideas, we are pleased to announce the six (6) ideas shortlisted to be developed further at Tech-In Education.
The shortlisted ideas are:
1. GENIUS QUIZ GAME: an interactive, fun, and cheap quiz system developed locally with the collaboration of school teachers given to students at the beginning of the terms (or end of terms), containing 5,000 quiz on subject to be learned (or learned).
2. Pronunciation Buddy: A colourful application that would aid little children learn the correct pronunciation of words.
3. TWIK (Teaching What I Know): a mobile/Web application that has contents created by students themselves, that allows students to teach and share what they know about a particular subject or topic of their choice.
4. Scrabble in Schools initiative (SiSi): taking scrabble board game (electronic version) to schools (primary and secondary) as a mind building, vocabulary enhacing and logic skills improvement tool.
5. Genii Games: Educative software games that combine animation, sounds,videos, games, graphics and text to teach subjects that are directly relevant to the Nigerian people specifically Social and Civic Studies.
6. Teacher Training Online: Learning communities for school-based, in-service Teachers’ Training Enabled by mobile technology.
This is also to thank every person who sent in an idea for the event. We got 38 ideas in total but unfortunately we only have the capacity to work on six at the event.
The proponents of the six ideas will be presenting them and forming their teams at the kick-off of Tech-In Education at 5.00pm on Friday 17th of February, 2012 at the CcHub, 6th Floor, 294 Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos.
Feel free to join us.
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Tech-in Education Event – 48hr gathering of ideas, people and digital tools.
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Tech-In Education is an unusual event focusing on technology innovation and application to improve learning amongst primary and secondary school students in Nigeria.
The 48hr experiment will gather geeks and designers with teachers, educationists, parents and stakeholders from different walks of life to co-create novel web and mobile based solution aimed at improving learning amongst primary and secondary school students in Nigeria. Tech-In is not a talk-shop but a living lab where contextualized cool solutions are birthed.
Learning is commonly defined as a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one’s knowledge, skills, values, and views (Illeris, 2004; Ormrod, 1995)
While technology offers no magic solutions, the diffusion of mobile phone and the growth of Internet access in Nigeria provide a platform through which the collective impact of the influences mentioned above can be harnessed to improve learning amongst primary and secondary school students in Nigeria.
Amidst the myriads of challenges facing the Nigerian Education system, how can technology innovation and application help?
Tech-In Education is the second event in the Tech-IN Series, an event aimed at harnessing the power of technology for economic development in Nigeria.
Tech-In Series is an initiative of Co-creation Hub Nigeria – a social innovation centre – committed to bringing together people from different sectors to work collaboratively on solutions to social problems in Nigeria. CcHUB exist to empower people to collectively develop and implement solutions to the social challenges they face in their society.
Click Here to learn more. tech-in.org/submitted_ideas/
Host: Co-creation Hub Nigeria. 6th Floor, 294, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos
Date: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th February, 2012
Time: 9:00AM – 6:00PM
Co-Creation HUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab for hackers, technologists, entrepreneurs, inventors, investors and tech companies in and around Lagos, Nigeria.
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