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		<title>Internet in Africa Thesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virus Free Generation Hip-Hop Tour is a project by Hivos, Alliance 2015 and Music Mayday attempting to raise awareness about the HIV&#38;Aids epidemic in Africa amongst the European youth of Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Italy. It started in February 2008 in Dar es Salam (Tanzania) and ended in Cape Town (South Africa) [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>The Virus Free Generation Hip-Hop Tour is a project by Hivos, Alliance 2015 and Music Mayday attempting to raise awareness about the HIV&amp;Aids epidemic in Africa amongst the European youth of Germany, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Italy.</em></p>
<p>It started in February 2008 in Dar es Salam (Tanzania) and ended in Cape Town (South Africa) in April 2008. In each country a duo was formed containing of a European and an African Hip-Hop artist. Together they visited HIV&amp;Aids related youth projects, gave workshops to local youth and musicians on how to use music as a tool of expression and education and gave a free concert where the local youth got a change to show their talent. They also recorded 3 tracks for the album and recorded a music video together with the media team.</p>
<p>I was part of the media team that traveled along with the artists to capture all of the activities. The virus free generation hip-hop tour could be followed live on the website, which was updated daily from Africa with Photos, Videos (webisodes) and a Blog. I also created most of the print design for the campaign surrounding the european part of the tour.</p>
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<h3>Thesis</h3>
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<p>When I got back from Africa I also wrote a thesis about the future of Internet in Africa, which gave me a change to put everything I had experienced into writing and formulate a vision of what the impact on internet will be on African society and the youth. To do this I compaired the internet usage of the west over time in relation to society with the situation in Africa now and the possible differences it could make.</p>
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<p><em>Wat voor invloed zal het internet gaan hebben op de Afrikaanse jeugd?<br />
De eerste keer dat deze gedachte in mij op kwam was toen ik op dag twee van de Virus Free Generation hiphop tour. Daar stond ik dan, met een onbekend team en 2 rappers in een klein stoffig en donker klas lokaaltje in Tanzania. Een jongen van een jaar of 11 stond zonder angst, of onzekerheid, op en begon tegenover zijn idool te rappen, het gevoel van ongeloof over hoe ik hier terecht was gekomen verdween, en voor het eerst werd ik geconfronteerd met het talent van de Afrikaanse jeugd, iets wat ik de 10 komende weken nog vaak zou ervaren. Wat zouden deze kinderen allemaal kunnen bereiken als ze toegang hadden tot computers en de informatie op internet? en wat voor invloed zou dit hebben op hun leven? waren vragen die nog vaak terug zouden komen.</em><br />
<br/><a href="http://www.frankdouwes.com/documents/internetAfrica.pdf" title="A research paper exploring the impact the internet will have on African youth." class="download"> <img src="http://www.frankdouwes.com/wp-content/themes/portfolio/img/icon.png" alt="icon"/> </a> <a href="http://www.frankdouwes.com/documents/internetAfrica.pdf" title="A research paper exploring the impact the internet will have on African youth.">Internet in Afrika (Dutch) - v1.0</a>
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