I am Amah Bretrand Achou 19 years of age.I am
currently a student in Bamenda North
West Province of Cameroon. I started schooling and
attending classes in 2000
with great passion of listening to lawyers. This
passion drove me to work hard towards pursuing my
career in law leading the law clubs in
my secondary school. November 2003-2007.
i collect and treat news concerning the environment and
broadcast in a programme called ''Our Environment''
Recently, I attended a law reporting course
in cape town with my dad found in south africa.
sponsored by my dad and i
must say i learned a great deal.I have the duty of
going to the field for actualities, look for resource
persons to participate in the programme and search the
web for information which might not be readily
available for dissemination.
I also freelance for the Cameroon Radio Television
where I obtained an opportunity to participate on a
Distance Learning course on Radio about law and
Production organised by the Commonwealth Broadcasting
Association,Taught by Robin White one of my models in
the profession. After the course i was awarded a
certificate in youths and its right.I
thought it selfish to keep all the knowledge to my
self so i produced a book''PRACTICAL HANDBOOK ON RADIO
JOURNALISM AND PRODUCTION'' to help others learn.
Furthermore,I send stories for a quarterly online
publication to World Wide Fund for Nature in Yaounde.
I am a correspondent for Radio Environment in Yaounde.
I enjoy promoting musicians who sing about the
environment.
I fumbled to create a blog and finally came up with
something like amahbertrand.blogspot.com
I have not updated anythinhg yet on Wiki but i will do
so immediately.
I will like to increase my skills and update my
technique on how ICT can better enlighten me in my
journalistic pursuit.
Also, our broadcast media face many constraints in
their operations as they have feeble and partial use
of ICT's. i.e computers and internet implying
Cameroon's contribution to global cyberspace is far
way below its potential. We therefore need trained
journalists in this domain to upgrade their
contribution.
In the same limelight,I am engaged to this
course,because as a media practitioner,i should be
able to promote awareness on ICT policy and issues and
i can only do so if i have a grasp and practice of the
subject.
I know the media are users of ICT who help to shape
and reflect public debate.Therefore, effective
involvement of journalists will enable greater public
awareness and understanding of ICT issues.
I believe the world has become a global village and
every journalist should be at the forefront of
information technology as they are expected to
disseminate the sourced information using new
communication technologies. In the same perspective, I
have the conviction that providing people with access
to vibrant diverse news and information empowers them.
The most fascinating content of the course is that I
will learn to research and publish content online,
learn how to use ICT tools for journalism and have a
grasp of ICT tools available for journalism.
I like to learn and to share with others giving others
the opportunity to be informed, educated and better
handle the issues around them.
thanks much
see you
amah bertrand
Thursday, July 5, 2007
What was worth noting to me.
The idea of ICT journalism is about changes the determination to go through the process of continuous change. It is salient for us to focus on how to tackle change issues as we relate to ICT journalism. Consequently we must change our mindset and relate to it appropriately in order to generate award wining successful stories.
My question how do we change our mindset to have award wining stories?
Interesting to note the dissimilarities between IT and ICT. IT or Informatique is the aggregation of information related fields such as computer hardware software; telecom network and equipment information technology based industries while ICT is (IT) that facilitates communication, processing and transmission of information by electronic means.
From the above definition I am tempted to draw a conclusion that ‘No IT No ICT’.
ICT has its uses no doubt but has rendered many journalists lazy and distorted the flow of information. Lets take the example how a journalist disseminates info
Source gatekeepers (editor) presenter audience
event
Some journalist no longer source information. They just need to get to the Internet and get whatever already made information and disseminate. This information is not verified by any correspondent (the case of foreign news where a journalist just goes to news website and copy down foreign news for the foreign page) and may not reflect the situation in the country. For example, a journalist who wants to talk about global warming all he does is download information and broadcast. Where as the effect of global warming varies from one country/ continent to the other.
Question
What is the difference between online journalism and electronic publishing (online journalism is reporting and other journalism produced or distributed via the Internet.
I was not aware of the fact that typical newsroom have ICT policy.
What does ICT journalism mean to me.
ICT journalism is a practice whereby sourced information is disseminated using ICT tools like cell phones, Internet, fax, telephone, which are easy and swift.
ICT can make a difference in journalism as it has provided journalists with tools to facilitate communication between them and other tools to research information and tools for training. Like now we are engaged in an online course thanks to an ICT tool.
ICT has covered many components in one. Meaning all the components of the old media have been covered in one providing a computer screen for TV, a new layout for online journalism and podcast for radio. Despite these the old media can never face death because of ICT, as they are not personal.
Andrias Houston
ICT saves shattered hopes of Mborroro Women in Bamenda
Over a thousand Mborroro women are expected to have had mastery on computer sciences before the lapse of the year 2008/2009 in Bamenda, North West Province of Cameroon. This was revealed during a press meeting of the Mborroro Social and Cultural Development Association (MBOSCUDA).
An estimated one hundred descend the heights of the hills leaving behind their cattle, their daily job of milking cows and looking after children to embrace the new opportunities offered by globalization and face their challenges. The effort by these women to abandon their cattle herding way of life to integrate with the demands of modern life has been facilitated by MBOSCUDA.
These Mborroro women have moved from the hills where they usually milked cows and sell the milk obtained, they have descended the slopes where they were usually exposed to threats of seasonal shifting cultivation, over-grazing by livestock, poor medical facilities, the harsh and dry cold air of the dry season mornings and the movement from one place to the other for the search of greener pasture for their cattle. And are now embracing the demands of the computer age.
Computer training classes have been organized for free under the supervision and provision of MBOSCUDA. Some of these women have had to go through English language courses so as to easily adapt with the lectures. The computer training classes is to effectively train Mborroro women to master the keyboard, work on software programmes like MS WORD, EXCEL, NOTEPAD PUBLISHER PRINT ARTIST AND MICROSOFT POWERPOINT and hardware maintenance, networking and mobile phone repairs. This opportunity has been provided to these women as they are marginalized and looked upon as illiterates but tomorrow they would all be secretaries of various governmental and non-governmental organizations.
According to a Mborroro trainee, Maimouna Ayisatou, it has really been a challenge having to go through elementary school to study English Language, enrolling and starting off school effectively having to leave her children behind. She is currently the owner of a documentation service office and says ‘’ this has enabled me to discover my real potential and made me have self-conviction. The programme did not only open me to the globalize world but has made me discovered my hidden talents as a person and as a woman.’’
On the hills she had never known what a computer is and never dreamt of owning one but today, she can operate and repair computer providing networking services and repairing mobile phones. She is contributing the economic welfare of her home and their standard of living has dramatically improved. She made a call to her friends up the hill to descend and discover the opportunities and wonders of the Information and communication Technology world.
Amah Bertrand
CYBER CRIME AMONGST CAMEROONIAN YOUTHS
Scamming and web camera prostitution have gradually eaten deep into the habits of Cameroonians youths who spend hours on the internet deceiving people as scammers and exposing their nudity as web cam prostitutes. The boys are usually scammers and girls web cam prostitutes.
Student at a Government school aged 16 reveals how he has been involved in scamming and often extorted money from pet lovers abroad to renovate their house. He owns two mobile phones a taxi and is thinking about quitting school to start a business of his.
On the other hand a web cam prostitute spends four dollars a day chatting with an “L’inconnue” often used by French speaking Cameroonians, which means ‘’an unknown’’. She exposes parts of her body over to cash money through transfer agencies.
The scammer gets online searches with google and the search engine opens up. The scammer types in the google search box, ‘’capuchin and marmoset monkeys’’ when it opens up, he copies and paste on a word document send to Craiglist.com and back page.com as adverts. It is worth noting that their mailing addresses are always found on the advert for correspondent purposes. An interested buyer gets it and contacts him. The scammer after receiving an email contact will begin to ask for transportation money approximately 300 dollars per monkey and 200 dollars for shipping. He calls the buyer from a phone booth and talks at length since calling America per minute has dropped to virtually nothing as cost. When the money is sent, the buyer never gets to see the monkey and unfortunately, has no one to report the matter to.
Meanwhile the web cam prostitute goes to a cyber café that runs 24 hours on 24. Its always at about 10:00pm that one finds a young girl dressed in very scanty wear to a cyber café looking very serious. The prostitute after purchasing a ticket to use a webcam, gets to a small private box in which is found a computer connected to the internet with the use of a peripheral tool called web cam which is capable of capturing images and transmitting through the internet once online. Only one-person can make use of the room at a given time that is why it is called private box. You can close and lock it and no one would even know what is going inside. It is about 4 cm in width and 2m in length with no windows. The box has a small fan that fans out more heat than in the actual sense of circulating fresher and cooler air. There are three categories of prostitutes those interested in finding a partner who is willing to pay, she will on probability basis of trust expose her nudity on the condition she would receive money to be sent to her the next day. The second class prostitutes gets to chat with the unknown for weeks so as to get acquainted to the unknown, develop trust and feign affection before beginning to expose their nudity.
The third are those who do not desire to receive money but to get intimate with their unknown partners so that they can invite them to Europe and the U.S. Wherever these individuals may be. The consequences for this third class are
Disastrous when they finally find their way to Europe and the U.S. It is rampant to hear stories of girls who have visited Europe and U.S. on invitation from their unknown partners. They revealed that while abroad, they were locked up in a room and obliged to copulate with many boys; than they expected. They left with hazy notions of going to live better lives but ended up being destroyed and thrown on the streets. With no job no qualification they are forced at the age of 15 – 18 to brave the streets of Europe as real prostitutes and no longer as web cam prostitutes and others are repatriated.
From scamming and web cam prostitution, these children return home with fabulous sums of money and some of their desperate parents do not bother to find out how and where they obtained the money. They have no fear of the law and immediately, they begin to draw projects on how to make use of the money. The condoning attitude of parents whose children are involved in such crimal acts makes the issue of cyber crime disturbing.
With the consent of these parents they dropout of school. The question they usually post is if schooling means future preparation towards achieving money, why should they continue when they have an easy way of getting money with less stress and more money at the end. Dropping out is the sole alternative so as to dedicate time to scamming and web cam prostitution.
Parents have forgotten the issues of morality to train their children in an upright manner so as to be proud of them and are helping to build a degenerated society with no incentive to hard work but deceit.
Yet the authorities that be, the lawmakers of the Land have instituted feeble laws against cyber crime and rarely do implement.
Money transfer agencies on their parts partake in the deal and share a portion of the increasing decadent behaviors as they demand a share of money from these scammers and web cam prostitutes as bribe.
Some cyber café have forbidden the use of web cameras and denied the opening of web pages like Craig list all in a bid to put and end to cyber crime meanwhile, the Government is taking a step ahead as some cyber criminals are in jail. But what policies to implement to stop this high rate of cyber crime is what the Cameroonian Government should start working on or else, the next generation would be a threat to the principle of human morality
Student at a Government school aged 16 reveals how he has been involved in scamming and often extorted money from pet lovers abroad to renovate their house. He owns two mobile phones a taxi and is thinking about quitting school to start a business of his.
On the other hand a web cam prostitute spends four dollars a day chatting with an “L’inconnue” often used by French speaking Cameroonians, which means ‘’an unknown’’. She exposes parts of her body over to cash money through transfer agencies.
The scammer gets online searches with google and the search engine opens up. The scammer types in the google search box, ‘’capuchin and marmoset monkeys’’ when it opens up, he copies and paste on a word document send to Craiglist.com and back page.com as adverts. It is worth noting that their mailing addresses are always found on the advert for correspondent purposes. An interested buyer gets it and contacts him. The scammer after receiving an email contact will begin to ask for transportation money approximately 300 dollars per monkey and 200 dollars for shipping. He calls the buyer from a phone booth and talks at length since calling America per minute has dropped to virtually nothing as cost. When the money is sent, the buyer never gets to see the monkey and unfortunately, has no one to report the matter to.
Meanwhile the web cam prostitute goes to a cyber café that runs 24 hours on 24. Its always at about 10:00pm that one finds a young girl dressed in very scanty wear to a cyber café looking very serious. The prostitute after purchasing a ticket to use a webcam, gets to a small private box in which is found a computer connected to the internet with the use of a peripheral tool called web cam which is capable of capturing images and transmitting through the internet once online. Only one-person can make use of the room at a given time that is why it is called private box. You can close and lock it and no one would even know what is going inside. It is about 4 cm in width and 2m in length with no windows. The box has a small fan that fans out more heat than in the actual sense of circulating fresher and cooler air. There are three categories of prostitutes those interested in finding a partner who is willing to pay, she will on probability basis of trust expose her nudity on the condition she would receive money to be sent to her the next day. The second class prostitutes gets to chat with the unknown for weeks so as to get acquainted to the unknown, develop trust and feign affection before beginning to expose their nudity.
The third are those who do not desire to receive money but to get intimate with their unknown partners so that they can invite them to Europe and the U.S. Wherever these individuals may be. The consequences for this third class are
Disastrous when they finally find their way to Europe and the U.S. It is rampant to hear stories of girls who have visited Europe and U.S. on invitation from their unknown partners. They revealed that while abroad, they were locked up in a room and obliged to copulate with many boys; than they expected. They left with hazy notions of going to live better lives but ended up being destroyed and thrown on the streets. With no job no qualification they are forced at the age of 15 – 18 to brave the streets of Europe as real prostitutes and no longer as web cam prostitutes and others are repatriated.
From scamming and web cam prostitution, these children return home with fabulous sums of money and some of their desperate parents do not bother to find out how and where they obtained the money. They have no fear of the law and immediately, they begin to draw projects on how to make use of the money. The condoning attitude of parents whose children are involved in such crimal acts makes the issue of cyber crime disturbing.
With the consent of these parents they dropout of school. The question they usually post is if schooling means future preparation towards achieving money, why should they continue when they have an easy way of getting money with less stress and more money at the end. Dropping out is the sole alternative so as to dedicate time to scamming and web cam prostitution.
Parents have forgotten the issues of morality to train their children in an upright manner so as to be proud of them and are helping to build a degenerated society with no incentive to hard work but deceit.
Yet the authorities that be, the lawmakers of the Land have instituted feeble laws against cyber crime and rarely do implement.
Money transfer agencies on their parts partake in the deal and share a portion of the increasing decadent behaviors as they demand a share of money from these scammers and web cam prostitutes as bribe.
Some cyber café have forbidden the use of web cameras and denied the opening of web pages like Craig list all in a bid to put and end to cyber crime meanwhile, the Government is taking a step ahead as some cyber criminals are in jail. But what policies to implement to stop this high rate of cyber crime is what the Cameroonian Government should start working on or else, the next generation would be a threat to the principle of human morality
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informations about the fight against HIV AIDS
I am call Amah Bertrand and a student too.i am a member of a party {TYFAHA}THE YOUTHS FIGHTING AGAINST HIV AIDS.i am deeply bleeding on you all to help me with informations for the fighting against HIV AIDS.please i will be happy reading from you.thanks
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