Kenya: Bloggers Keep World Informed

With news blackouts in force in Kenya it is up to the bloggers to keep the world, and indeed many of the media, informed of the terrible atrocities being perpetrated in what was just a week ago a relatively peaceful country in Africa. Mobile phones are being used to update Kenyan blogs and video shot of the violence in Kenya via mobile phone is being disseminated by mainstream news media.

Kenya has one of the most vibrant blogging communities in Africa according to the Internet and Democracy project team at Harvard in the United States in this blog entry on the impact of 'Blogs, SMS and the Kenyan Election': "Blogs and mobile phones have played critical roles since violence erupted," according to the blog post which is hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

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