20 new blogs were created during COP3: see the list below. Have YOU considered blogging? It is by far the easiest and most effective way to have an active presence on the internet. Give it a try!
Only if you really want to communicate. Not one of those 20 new blogs "survived". Why? Because the people they were created for did not really want to communicate that way (or any other way for most of them). Most probably did not have the writing skills nor any intent to give it a try. As the "donors" and funding organizations did not blog nor insist on their grantees to blog, they had zero incentive. Three years later (this part of the post is written in June 2011) the situation has not changed: tobacco control advocates in Africa don't blog and nobody cares. The result: no communication where an active network of bloggers would have produced an abundance of original and useful content for a very small fraction of the millions that have been largely wasted.
The picture, about Puget Sound and Mount Rainier was taken aboard the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island, last leg of my trip home from Durban...
10 blogs were created for the ATSA teams (most still have to produce content).
Burkina: Blog for the Association de santé publique
Burkina: Union des Associations de Lutte Contre le Tabac
Cameroun: Département de santé publique
Eritrea: Tobacco Free Eritrea
Ghana: Tobacco Free Ghana
Kenya: Tobacco Free Kenya
Malawi: Tobacco Free Malawi
Zambia: Tobacco Free Zambia , ZACA
Senegal: Le blog d'Eugène Gbedji
2 blogs were created for the new organization African Tobacco Control Alliance, ATCA -ATCA (English) and ATCA (French)
8 other African advocates and journalists used the opportunity to start blogging:
Algeria: Soltane Ameur
Senegal: Journalist Idrissa Ndiaye
Benin: Journalist Charles Ligan
Cameroun: Journalist Tih Armstrong Ntiabang
Niger: SOS Tabagisme Niger (Inoussa Saouna)
Gambia: Raid the Gambia, NGO CSO, Tobacco Free Gambia
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