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From Citizenship to Netizenship: Blogging for social change in Tanzania

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Chambi Chachage discusses the roles of Information and Communication Technologies in empowering Tanzanian Civil Society Organizations. His article is based on a longer paper that looks at the impact of blogs, sms, lister vs and other online forums and interrogates ideas associated with Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Here Chachage focuses on blogging as an important feature of ‘netizenship’ in Tanzania.

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Notes

  1. This paper is an abridged version of a longer paper on ‘From Citizenship to Netizenship: ICTs as New Tools for Citizen Agency in Tanzania’.

  2. http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/.

  3. http://udadisi.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-barrick-golds-capital-comes.html.

  4. http://udadisi.blogspot.com/2010/03/call-for-action-in-north-mara-gold-mine.html.

  5. http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-josephs-millenium-school-graduation.html.

  6. http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2008/11/national-basketball-coaches-teams.html.

  7. http://gdss2008.blogspot.com/search?q=dhahabu.

  8. http://justiceinunjustworld.blogspot.com/2009/07/it-is-not-exeggeration.html#comments.

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Chachage, C. From Citizenship to Netizenship: Blogging for social change in Tanzania. Development 53, 429–432 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2010.54

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