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In November we have been working to document the first-time use of a solar powered sports lighting system of Philips. Our reporters in Kenya and South Africa made video and still images of the event.
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View the Off-grid Lighting website of Philips.
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| Dear colleagues, friends and partners,
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Best wishes for 2010! The new year has started and this is why we wanted to update you on our activities in the past six months.
Since our last newsletter in July, Africa Interactive has worked with several new organisations and has produced interesting videos, photography and websites. Our network is expanding - we have more than 850 reporters in 43 countries.
We are very happy to welcome two new colleagues - Lucia and Annamara. If you want to keep track of the latest developments from the Africa Interactive workfloor, read our weblog!
We hope that you will enjoy reading the newsletter. Thank you for the successful collaboration in 2009 and we wish to continue this in the new year.
The Africa Interactive team
Pieter, Peter, Georgette, Bertil, Lucia and Annamara (Amsterdam)
Kent, Joseph, Esme (Accra)
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We are proud to announce new partnerships
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In the past half year we have made 11 new partnerships with organisations like Milieudefensie, NIMD, Kerk in Actie and IICD.
We have made videos covering several topics such as illegal logging in Liberia, safe drinking water in Zambia and school-feeding projects in Ghana. We have done photography and carried out research for the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Our videos have been made in countries like Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania and many more.
What can Africa Interactive do for you?
Africa Interactive is a fast growing content production company and we have many services to offer:
- High end video productions
- Simple Video Reports
- Photography
- Text
- Journalistic productions
- Fixers in Africa to accompany your production team
- African online community marketing
- Management of dynamic content websites
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More information on: www.africa-interactive.net
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| Building a social network with African journalists for Nike and RED |
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 On behalf of Nike, we are building a social network with African sports journalists.
On November 30, on the day before World Aids day, the partnership between Nike and (RED) was announced by Bono and some of the world's best footballers.
This unique partnership delivers a two-pronged approach to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa by delivering funds to support programs that offer education and medication on the ground and will harness the power of sport to engage youth around the world in the fight against AIDS in Africa.
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| Source Connection uses video to raise funds online and offline
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In November we produced a Simple Video Report for Dutch NGO Source Connection about their drinking water project in Zambia. They showed the video during a charity dinner and used it to showcase their project online to raise funds.
The video was made for a charity dinner in Amsterdam and during that evening €11.745,- was raised. Stichting Wilde Ganzen and NCDO raised this amount to €25.000. The video was also posted on their project page of the 1%CLUB-website where another €4250 was collected for new projects.
Dorine Veldhuyzen of Source Connection explains: “Every NGO depends on the involvement, generosity and trust of donors. It helps a lot when a video concretely portrays the problems, challenges and results achieved. However it is especially essential when the story is told by the people benefiting from the project, about what it's like for them."
About the cooperation with Africa Interactive Dorine says: "We were happy with Africa Interactive and their expertise on bringing a message across in an effective and concise manner. Their effort to finish the video in time for a big event plus the quality of the delivered product. We recommend them for every NGO active in Africa!"
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| Spark Africa broadcasted by NUzakelijk, Radio Netherlands, RTLZ and Volkskrant
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 Spark Africa, an investment journal produced by Africa Interactive, is broadcasted on four big news websites in the Netherlands.
We have produced eight episodes so far. See them on the NUzakelijk website or on our own Spark Africa website.
The first three episodes are now also available in English.
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Research in Ghana for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
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Our colleagues Kent Mensah and Daniel
Aforo did research for a prestigious World Expo project. Shanghai based
Yu+Co produces a documentary on life in six cities in the world.
Accra
was chosen as the African city. The documentary makes intimate
portraits of two families. Kent and Daniel did research for this
project and worked with the film crew when they were filming in Accra in December 2009. The documenatry will be shown at the 2010 World Expo in
Shanghai.
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| Keeping you updated on our latest developments! |
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 Every day there are new developments on the Africa Interactive workfloor. If you want to stay informed you can now 'follow' our Twitter account. Also we started a weblog which we will update regurlary.
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Visit the Africa Interactive weblog
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The network keeps on growing! |
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 The network keeps growing and growing! Each month around 40 new reporters from all corners in Africa join our network. We now have 850 reporters, in 43 countries.
It is our goal to be represented in every city in Africa.
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View our Google Map with an overview of the reporters.
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TNT: Twinning project in Tanzania
We have produced a video for TNT about the twinning relation of TNT and WFP in Singida, Tanzania. Together they support locally needed projects.
View this video
Starbucks: Rwanda
For Starbucks we produced two videos in Rwanda when CEO Howard Schultz was visiting the coffee farmers.
View this video
Miliedefensie: Illegal logging
For Milieudefensie we made a video about illegal logging in Liberia and Cameroon. This video was used to inform ministers of the EU about illegal logging in Africa.
View this video
IICD: Ghana
For IICD we produced a Simple Video Report about a project for farmers in North-Ghana where price information about their crops is provided to them via text messages on their mobile phone.
View this video
Source Connection: Zambia
For Source Connection we produced a video about their drinking water project in the South of Zambia. This Amsterdam based NGO used the video during a fundraising dinner in November 2009 and collected 25.000 euro!
View this video
Videoreports on AfricaNews.com
For our newswebsite AfricaNews.com our reporters produce news-videos. Amokrane Mariche from Algeria reported about the build up towards the decisive Algeria - Egypt football match.
View this video
Overview of AfricaNews videos
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