Mwl. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, tutakukumbuka daima sisi watanzania.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Workshop fruits
Today is the fifth and last day of our internet workshop for Tanzanian Journalist organized by MISA-Tanzania and VIKES Foundation in Dar es Salaam. I would like to talk about the workshop in general and the things we have gained from the workshop.
Fist of all, the workshop was organized well from the beginning until the end under the good training of Mr. Johansson Peik who was our lecturer. Mr. Peik was having good material to teach us about effective internet use which was very direct, understandable, short and clear. According to my experience, in Tanzania most of the internet users use the internet just through learning from other. And most of them use the internet to send emails, charting and leading some information and looking for material for a particular purpose as I was doing. But through this training I have discovered that there are many things I was not aware with in this technology which are useful to the people who are familiar with the use of the internet. And I believe if every one will get training like this, we will bring about development in our country and the world as a whole.
During the workshop, Mr. Peik was using many examples in lecturing as well as practical assignment than theory. This was a good technique of training I enjoyed a lot because it makes me understanding many things within few time. We were able to search for many websites looking for news and other affairs. This includes booking tickets for train, searching for Olympic winners and timetable for football matches, statistics for internet user world wide and in Africa, looking for meaning of the words, finding people’s profile as well as editing information. So, I like to give big up to our lecture Mr. Peik for his good job. Keep it up!
I also enjoyed the presentation of Mr. Maggid Mjengwa about learning through the picture. It was a nice presentation to me for today.
I would like to congratulate my fellow journalists who have attended this workshop because they have done a good job especially by sharing information through blogs and being cooperative for the five days we were together in the workshop. I believe through blogs we will continue to share information about different issues happens around the world. Because we are all journalist let us keep it up, work hard in order to make sure we fulfill our responsibility of keeping the public informed. Let us continue to update our blogs after this workshop in order to be as an example to others and teach our fellow about things we have gain in this workshop.
I want to remind my fellow 16 journalist to avoid plagiarism. As our lecturer reminded us, plagiarism is bad, it can damage our profession as well as our jobs. Let us try to find our own material in our works. If it happens to use someone material please make sure you give him or her credit in order to be in the safe side. That is how things go on.
My expectation is to use the knowledge I got from this workshop to educate my fellow workers in my company as well as other people so that they can also know how to use the internet effectively.
Lastly, I want to say a word of thanks to the organizer of this workshop, MISA-Tanzania and VIKES Foundation. I appreciate everything you have done to us 17 Tanzanian Journalists and I ask you to provide this training to other who has not yet selected to attend the workshop like this.
Fist of all, the workshop was organized well from the beginning until the end under the good training of Mr. Johansson Peik who was our lecturer. Mr. Peik was having good material to teach us about effective internet use which was very direct, understandable, short and clear. According to my experience, in Tanzania most of the internet users use the internet just through learning from other. And most of them use the internet to send emails, charting and leading some information and looking for material for a particular purpose as I was doing. But through this training I have discovered that there are many things I was not aware with in this technology which are useful to the people who are familiar with the use of the internet. And I believe if every one will get training like this, we will bring about development in our country and the world as a whole.
During the workshop, Mr. Peik was using many examples in lecturing as well as practical assignment than theory. This was a good technique of training I enjoyed a lot because it makes me understanding many things within few time. We were able to search for many websites looking for news and other affairs. This includes booking tickets for train, searching for Olympic winners and timetable for football matches, statistics for internet user world wide and in Africa, looking for meaning of the words, finding people’s profile as well as editing information. So, I like to give big up to our lecture Mr. Peik for his good job. Keep it up!
I also enjoyed the presentation of Mr. Maggid Mjengwa about learning through the picture. It was a nice presentation to me for today.
I would like to congratulate my fellow journalists who have attended this workshop because they have done a good job especially by sharing information through blogs and being cooperative for the five days we were together in the workshop. I believe through blogs we will continue to share information about different issues happens around the world. Because we are all journalist let us keep it up, work hard in order to make sure we fulfill our responsibility of keeping the public informed. Let us continue to update our blogs after this workshop in order to be as an example to others and teach our fellow about things we have gain in this workshop.
I want to remind my fellow 16 journalist to avoid plagiarism. As our lecturer reminded us, plagiarism is bad, it can damage our profession as well as our jobs. Let us try to find our own material in our works. If it happens to use someone material please make sure you give him or her credit in order to be in the safe side. That is how things go on.
My expectation is to use the knowledge I got from this workshop to educate my fellow workers in my company as well as other people so that they can also know how to use the internet effectively.
Lastly, I want to say a word of thanks to the organizer of this workshop, MISA-Tanzania and VIKES Foundation. I appreciate everything you have done to us 17 Tanzanian Journalists and I ask you to provide this training to other who has not yet selected to attend the workshop like this.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Climate change and Mt. Kilimanjaro
Mt. Kilimanjaro is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania rising 4,600 m from its base. It is the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895 meters. Mt. Kilimanjaro is providing a dramatic view of the surrounding plains and has three volcanic cones namely, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira.
The highest point on Kilimanjaro is Uhuru Peak, on the volcano Kibo 5,895 metres. The top of Kibo is a 1.5 mile wide crater. Two other peaks are also extinct volcanoes: Mawenzi (5,149 m, 16,890 ft), the third highest peak in Africa (after Mount Kenya) and Shira (3,962 m, 13,000 ft) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilimanjaro).
The majority of the people inhabiting the Kilimanjaro region are the Bantu-speaking Chagga, the Pare, Kahe, and Mbugu. The Kilimanjaro slopes have several vegetation zones, ranging from the semiarid scrub on the plateau around the mountain, the fertile southern slopes, dense forests and open moorlands, alpine deserts and moss and lichen groupings (http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/kili_tp.shtml). The Kilimanjaro region is one of the leading Tanzanian producers of coffee, barley, wheat, sage, sisal, maize, beans, bananas, wattle bark, cotton, pyrethrum and potatoes.
Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the few places in the world where ice and snow can be found on the equator. Its fast-melting glaciers symbolise the fact that climate change may be felt first and hardest by the environment and people of Africa.
But due to climate change resulted from global warming glaciers are disappearing around the world in which Mount Kilimanjaro provides a clear example of this impact of climate change. While the volcano appears to be dormant on the inside, events on top of the mountain draw global attention. The top of the mountain has seen a retreat of the most recent covering of glaciers, with the most recent ice cap volume dropping by more than 80%. In 2002, a study led by Ohio State University ice core paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson predicted that ice on top of Africa's tallest peak would be gone between 2015 and 2020. In 2007, a team of Austrian scientists from University of Innsbruck predicted that the plateau ice cap will be gone by 2040, but some ice on the slope will remain longer due to local weather conditions. A comparison of ice core records suggests conditions today are returning to those of 11,000 years ago.
A study by Philip Mote of the University of Washington in the United States and Georg Kaser of the University of Innsbruck in Austria concludes that the shrinking of Kilimanjaro's ice cap is not directly due to rising temperature but rather to decreased precipitation. [8] In May 2008 The Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources, Ms Shamsa Mwangunga, that there were indications that snow cover on the mountain was actually increasing.[9] As of January 2006, the Western Breach route has been closed by the Tanzanian government following a rockslide that killed four people at Arrow Glacier Camp.[citation needed] The rockslide is believed to have been caused by frost action in an area that is no longer permanently frozen.
According to Hardy, forest reduction in the areas surrounding Mt. Kilimanjaro and not global warming, might be the strongest human influence on glacial recession. Clearing for agriculture and forest fires often caused by honey collectors trying to smoke bees out of their hives have greatly reduced the surrounding forests. The loss of foliage causes less moisture to be pumped into the atmosphere, leading to reduced cloud cover and precipitation and increased solar radiation and glacial evaporation.
Along with a higher risk of evaporation, a drop in precipitation also makes for a dark glacial surface, made up of old, dirty snow. A darker glacial surface absorbs more solar radiation than fresh, white snow (like a blacktop playground baking in the sun).
According to Douglas R. Hardy, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, who monitored Kilimanjaro's glaciers from mountaintop weather stations since 2000, the sad reality is that the loss of Kilimanjaro's glaciers probably has to affect the local economy. Climate change is already having an impact on habitats critical to the survival of wildlife in places around the globe (http://www.abercrombiekent.com).
The disappearing glaciers of Kilimanjaro are attracting broad interest. Less conspicuous but ecologically far more significant is the associated increase of frequency and intensity of fires on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, which leads to a downward shift of the upper forest line by several hundred meters as a result of a drier (warmer) climate since the last century. In contrast to common belief, global warming does not necessarily cause upward migration of plants and animals
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118710788/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0). Here, it is shown that on Kilimanjaro the opposite trend is under way, with consequences more harmful than those due to the loss of the showy ice cap of Africa's highest mountain.
The highest point on Kilimanjaro is Uhuru Peak, on the volcano Kibo 5,895 metres. The top of Kibo is a 1.5 mile wide crater. Two other peaks are also extinct volcanoes: Mawenzi (5,149 m, 16,890 ft), the third highest peak in Africa (after Mount Kenya) and Shira (3,962 m, 13,000 ft) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilimanjaro).
The majority of the people inhabiting the Kilimanjaro region are the Bantu-speaking Chagga, the Pare, Kahe, and Mbugu. The Kilimanjaro slopes have several vegetation zones, ranging from the semiarid scrub on the plateau around the mountain, the fertile southern slopes, dense forests and open moorlands, alpine deserts and moss and lichen groupings (http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/kili_tp.shtml). The Kilimanjaro region is one of the leading Tanzanian producers of coffee, barley, wheat, sage, sisal, maize, beans, bananas, wattle bark, cotton, pyrethrum and potatoes.
Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the few places in the world where ice and snow can be found on the equator. Its fast-melting glaciers symbolise the fact that climate change may be felt first and hardest by the environment and people of Africa.
But due to climate change resulted from global warming glaciers are disappearing around the world in which Mount Kilimanjaro provides a clear example of this impact of climate change. While the volcano appears to be dormant on the inside, events on top of the mountain draw global attention. The top of the mountain has seen a retreat of the most recent covering of glaciers, with the most recent ice cap volume dropping by more than 80%. In 2002, a study led by Ohio State University ice core paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson predicted that ice on top of Africa's tallest peak would be gone between 2015 and 2020. In 2007, a team of Austrian scientists from University of Innsbruck predicted that the plateau ice cap will be gone by 2040, but some ice on the slope will remain longer due to local weather conditions. A comparison of ice core records suggests conditions today are returning to those of 11,000 years ago.
A study by Philip Mote of the University of Washington in the United States and Georg Kaser of the University of Innsbruck in Austria concludes that the shrinking of Kilimanjaro's ice cap is not directly due to rising temperature but rather to decreased precipitation. [8] In May 2008 The Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources, Ms Shamsa Mwangunga, that there were indications that snow cover on the mountain was actually increasing.[9] As of January 2006, the Western Breach route has been closed by the Tanzanian government following a rockslide that killed four people at Arrow Glacier Camp.[citation needed] The rockslide is believed to have been caused by frost action in an area that is no longer permanently frozen.
According to Hardy, forest reduction in the areas surrounding Mt. Kilimanjaro and not global warming, might be the strongest human influence on glacial recession. Clearing for agriculture and forest fires often caused by honey collectors trying to smoke bees out of their hives have greatly reduced the surrounding forests. The loss of foliage causes less moisture to be pumped into the atmosphere, leading to reduced cloud cover and precipitation and increased solar radiation and glacial evaporation.
Along with a higher risk of evaporation, a drop in precipitation also makes for a dark glacial surface, made up of old, dirty snow. A darker glacial surface absorbs more solar radiation than fresh, white snow (like a blacktop playground baking in the sun).
According to Douglas R. Hardy, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, who monitored Kilimanjaro's glaciers from mountaintop weather stations since 2000, the sad reality is that the loss of Kilimanjaro's glaciers probably has to affect the local economy. Climate change is already having an impact on habitats critical to the survival of wildlife in places around the globe (http://www.abercrombiekent.com).
The disappearing glaciers of Kilimanjaro are attracting broad interest. Less conspicuous but ecologically far more significant is the associated increase of frequency and intensity of fires on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, which leads to a downward shift of the upper forest line by several hundred meters as a result of a drier (warmer) climate since the last century. In contrast to common belief, global warming does not necessarily cause upward migration of plants and animals
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118710788/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0). Here, it is shown that on Kilimanjaro the opposite trend is under way, with consequences more harmful than those due to the loss of the showy ice cap of Africa's highest mountain.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
A wonderful third day of the internet workshop
Today we have started our third day of internet workshop by previewing our blogs and taught how to edit them. We were able to make some corrections of our text we wrote yesterday as an assignment.
Another thing which was done today is an assignment about what we learn yesterday (Tuesday), our experience, what we do, what was good to us and what problems we faced during the whole time of the workshop.
After doing the assignment, a lecturer told us to post them in our blogs as we done yesterday and tough us how to edit them and publishing them in our blogs.
In addition to that, a lecturer continued with training on internet in everyday journalism in which he talked about source of facts or background of information or content and what kind of information can you search for simple fact, background and know more about something you want to know.
We were also taught about things to consider before looking for information in the internet. These are, to think about what you are looking for, what sort of information can help you to get the information you need and what is the exact fact you are going to look for.
Another new idea taught in the workshop was search engines followed by practical assignment in which we were looking for countries capital through the internet. We were assigned to search for the capital city of Burkina Faso, Laos, Honduras and Estonia. Another search was about the population of Egypt, Finland and Ruvuma as well as the president of Namibia and Bolivia in which we looked for his background.
Contact information was another thing we were taught today. In contact information, we learn on how to search for contact of different authorities and people using the internet. Some examples of the contacts we looked for was the phone number and email address of Celtel Tanzania and the phone number of President George Bush.
All in all, the training on the third day of the internet workshop was nice and useful to me because we were doing thing in practical more than theory. I say so because “Practice makes perfect.”
Another thing which was done today is an assignment about what we learn yesterday (Tuesday), our experience, what we do, what was good to us and what problems we faced during the whole time of the workshop.
After doing the assignment, a lecturer told us to post them in our blogs as we done yesterday and tough us how to edit them and publishing them in our blogs.
In addition to that, a lecturer continued with training on internet in everyday journalism in which he talked about source of facts or background of information or content and what kind of information can you search for simple fact, background and know more about something you want to know.
We were also taught about things to consider before looking for information in the internet. These are, to think about what you are looking for, what sort of information can help you to get the information you need and what is the exact fact you are going to look for.
Another new idea taught in the workshop was search engines followed by practical assignment in which we were looking for countries capital through the internet. We were assigned to search for the capital city of Burkina Faso, Laos, Honduras and Estonia. Another search was about the population of Egypt, Finland and Ruvuma as well as the president of Namibia and Bolivia in which we looked for his background.
Contact information was another thing we were taught today. In contact information, we learn on how to search for contact of different authorities and people using the internet. Some examples of the contacts we looked for was the phone number and email address of Celtel Tanzania and the phone number of President George Bush.
All in all, the training on the third day of the internet workshop was nice and useful to me because we were doing thing in practical more than theory. I say so because “Practice makes perfect.”
My experience on the second day of the workshop
Yesterday on 26th August, 2008 was the second day of the internet workshop for Tanzanian Journalists. A lecturer started by showing us some of the websites which are used to get information such as www.drudgereport.com, www.amazon.com, www.slashdot.org, www.easyjet.com and www.easypizza.com. We were also taught on how to edit information using wikipedia website in which we edited the information about Musoma.
A Lecturer gave as an assignment to explain why we joined the internet workshop, what did we read on Monday and what topics we want to be covered in the following days. This assignment aimed at opening our own blog in which we were able to do so after completing the assignment. Then after opening the blog we posted our assignment.
Another thing which was done yesterday was about the topic on the internet in everyday journalism in which a lecturer taught us how internet is a toll in journalism. We were able to know a journalists source of news which includes eyes and ears, individual sources, people, contents, press releases and other media.
In addition to that, we were taught on which ways can practically all journalists in any media benefits from the internet. We saw that the journalist can benefit from internet through sources of stories we produce, a global collection of newspapers and other information, sources of facts or background of information, search for people, looking for facts in editing and checking for grammar.
Then, the lecturer introduced us global collection of newspapers and other information. We started by opening the website of Tanzania government and the parliament as well as different media in Tanzania following by other in Kenya, then Uganda and at last in developed countries.
Through this workshop I have experienced several websites which can be used to look for information in my editing work. I believe it will be easier for me to get information quickly whenever I need to do so.
Yesterday, I was able to open my own blog which will be used as my personal online diary.
I visited several websites includes www.ippmedia.com, www.mwananchi.co.tz, www.thecitizen.co.tz, www.dailnews.habarileo.co.tz, www.habarileo.co.tz, www.majira.com, www.businesstimes.com, www.newhabari.com, www.raiamwema.co.tz, www.freemedia.com, www.arushatimes.co.tz, www.theexpress.com, www.startvtz.com, www.cloudsfm.com, www.tanzania.go.tz, www.tzonline.org, www.tanserve.com, www.kafoi.com, www.jamiiforums.com, www.bbc.co.uk, www.parliament.co.org, www.cnn.com, www.reuters.com, http://english.aljazeera.net, http://africa.reuters.com, http://ispnews.net, www.irinnews.org, www.nation.co.ke, www.monitor.co.ug, www.mg.co.za, www.guardian.co.uk and www.allafrica.com.
I was happy to visit several media which are used to get information through internet especially www.allafrica.com which is a news source in you can read all African newspaper. I am glad to know this website because I was not aware of it before the workshop.
The problem I experienced yesterday was the network which made me to fail visiting some of the website. And also I found that some of the websites are not updated for more than three months something which deny people's right to get information because news is news when it is new.
A Lecturer gave as an assignment to explain why we joined the internet workshop, what did we read on Monday and what topics we want to be covered in the following days. This assignment aimed at opening our own blog in which we were able to do so after completing the assignment. Then after opening the blog we posted our assignment.
Another thing which was done yesterday was about the topic on the internet in everyday journalism in which a lecturer taught us how internet is a toll in journalism. We were able to know a journalists source of news which includes eyes and ears, individual sources, people, contents, press releases and other media.
In addition to that, we were taught on which ways can practically all journalists in any media benefits from the internet. We saw that the journalist can benefit from internet through sources of stories we produce, a global collection of newspapers and other information, sources of facts or background of information, search for people, looking for facts in editing and checking for grammar.
Then, the lecturer introduced us global collection of newspapers and other information. We started by opening the website of Tanzania government and the parliament as well as different media in Tanzania following by other in Kenya, then Uganda and at last in developed countries.
Through this workshop I have experienced several websites which can be used to look for information in my editing work. I believe it will be easier for me to get information quickly whenever I need to do so.
Yesterday, I was able to open my own blog which will be used as my personal online diary.
I visited several websites includes www.ippmedia.com, www.mwananchi.co.tz, www.thecitizen.co.tz, www.dailnews.habarileo.co.tz, www.habarileo.co.tz, www.majira.com, www.businesstimes.com, www.newhabari.com, www.raiamwema.co.tz, www.freemedia.com, www.arushatimes.co.tz, www.theexpress.com, www.startvtz.com, www.cloudsfm.com, www.tanzania.go.tz, www.tzonline.org, www.tanserve.com, www.kafoi.com, www.jamiiforums.com, www.bbc.co.uk, www.parliament.co.org, www.cnn.com, www.reuters.com, http://english.aljazeera.net, http://africa.reuters.com, http://ispnews.net, www.irinnews.org, www.nation.co.ke, www.monitor.co.ug, www.mg.co.za, www.guardian.co.uk and www.allafrica.com.
I was happy to visit several media which are used to get information through internet especially www.allafrica.com which is a news source in you can read all African newspaper. I am glad to know this website because I was not aware of it before the workshop.
The problem I experienced yesterday was the network which made me to fail visiting some of the website. And also I found that some of the websites are not updated for more than three months something which deny people's right to get information because news is news when it is new.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Internet workshop for Tanzanian Journalists
I, Flora Rugashoborola , an assistant news editor of Star TV was happy to be nominated by my company to attend the internet workshop for Tanzanian Journalist organized by MISA-Tanzania and VIKES Foundation in Dar es Salaam. This is due to the fact that the training will equip my knowledge on the internet use. Previously, I was using my own experience and learning from others on how to use the internet to search for material, charting and sending emails. But this workshop is more useful to me because I will be able to use the internet effectively to search for different information as far as my journalism profession is concerned and other issues needed in our daily life.
Yesterday, which was the first day of our workshop we were able to lean about the meaning of the internet and the different between the internet and World Wide Web. We were also taught on the characteristics of the internet or its use, how to use website to book for tickets and order books, CD and Camera, listening to radio, watching TV and reading newspapers. Also, we were able to search for the internet user world wide and in Africa as well, the list of the country using the internet around the world, the list of the websites having many users around the world and why Tanzania is having few internet user compared to Kenya. In addition to that, Wikipedia was used to search for the meaning of words. Generally, the workshop was very good and useful to me because I knew many things about the internet which I did not knew before the workshop.
The topics I want to be covered in the following days are about the important of the internet education for people’s development, how could the internet reach several people especially those living in rural areas and how to use the internet to search for some material for research doing.
Yesterday, which was the first day of our workshop we were able to lean about the meaning of the internet and the different between the internet and World Wide Web. We were also taught on the characteristics of the internet or its use, how to use website to book for tickets and order books, CD and Camera, listening to radio, watching TV and reading newspapers. Also, we were able to search for the internet user world wide and in Africa as well, the list of the country using the internet around the world, the list of the websites having many users around the world and why Tanzania is having few internet user compared to Kenya. In addition to that, Wikipedia was used to search for the meaning of words. Generally, the workshop was very good and useful to me because I knew many things about the internet which I did not knew before the workshop.
The topics I want to be covered in the following days are about the important of the internet education for people’s development, how could the internet reach several people especially those living in rural areas and how to use the internet to search for some material for research doing.
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