ccSA live from Grahamstown

Kerryn and I are in Grahamstown this week for the annual Highway Africa conference. We’ll be presenting tomorrow on our open business model project along with Elan Lohman (News24), Herman Mansen (Media Toolbox), Matthew Buckland (M&G Online) and other major media organisations from around South Africa. Check out the latest news from the event that draws participants from over 20 countries around Africa on the Creative Commons-licenced website, www.highwayafrica.ru.ac.za/hana/. Said Eddie Funde, SABC Chair, in his address: ‘This is an important conference. It is critical for African media to define its image, its direction because if we’re empty as who we are and where we are going, someone will decide these things for us.’