Stef & Jaap's blog

I recently discovered this American geezer called Michael Rosenblum. He has got very fresh ideas about how journalism should evolve in the internet driven world. Read his latest column:

triplePmedia is old….Viva Ventanaz!

Although we totally embrace all initiatives and projects that help the People & Planet and also generate some Profit, we felt the TripleP in our name didn’t quite suit us anymore.

New Media New World, thats us. It goes beyond the 3 P’s. To us the 3P’s go wihtout saying: they belong to the New World, no question about that. 

We are storytellers, journalists. We believe the old and new media can and should go hand in hand. So we make independent stories, and publish in newspapers on the internet and later on on tv too, but we can also turn journalistic stories into new media products. I’ll make a blog to show you how that can work. 

For now I wanted to tell you that we changed our name, into Ventanaz. 

It’s Spanish and this is what it means to us:

http://yfrog.com/9guy8tj

 We’re working on a strategyplan, we’re building a new website and we’re having great brainstorms on our brand new webchannel, Ventanaz.tv, soon to be launched!

We’ll keep you up to date on the developments. To start with; here’s an attempt to our strategyplan:

http://yfrog.com/2d6a5j

Seeya!

We’re delighted that Belgium is picking up on the African cheeta’s too.

Last Saturday our biggest story til so far appeared in national newspaper De Standaard. The economy page opened with it.

We’re working on an overview of the cheeta-story; will get back soon!

Radio Netherlands Worldwide has posted our item about the Digital Revolution in Nairobi.Starring Mark Kamau of Nairobits and John Karanja of Africa’s social network site Whive.com 

In 2007, the Ghanaian economist George Ayittey already talked about these so-called cheetah generation. One which unlike the older hippo-generation still being grumpy about colonialism and imperialism, is finding new solutions to old problems.

With the Internet, they have finally found the key to pulling Africa out of the gutter. The innovative and creative applications they come up with make their world run as fast as the one in the West.

John Karanja wrote on Facebook: 

Whive.com and TriplePMedia.nl made a visit to Kibera, Africa’s largest informal settlement. We were shocked to find kids playing Xbox and using social media to transform their lives.

 We were frontpage news today! 

Another article on African innovators, also known as the cheeta’s of Africa, appeared in Dutch national newspaper De Pers. Article by Stef and pictures by Jaap.

Read here in Dutch:   De Pers - Dankzij internet is Afrika niet langer donker

Read here in English: Thanks to internet, Africa is no longer dark

We’re very happy De Volkskrant decided to publish our story on the empowerment of the Africans thanks to the internet.

You can read here in full screen:

…dit artikel staat ook op Frankwatching

De mobiele telefoon en het internet zijn een revolutie voor Afrika. “Voorheen zaten we vast. Het internet is onze sleutel.”

“Het is alsof ineens het licht is aangegaan in Afrika,” zegt Aly-Khan Satchu, oprichter van het online financiële platform Rich. “Lange tijd was het donker. Toen kwam de mobiele telefoon naar Afrika. De revolutie begon.”

Wie vorig jaar bij het openspace event van de 1%CLUB in Amsterdam was, hoef ik niets uit te leggen als ik zeg dat we vandaag op het www.eenprocentevent.nl in Nairobi zijn. Voor de rest: alle creatievelingen, innovators, jonge ondernemers, bloggers en social networkers van Nairobi zijn vandaag hier op de universiteit om met elkaar nieuwe oplossingen te bedenken voor oude problemen. We hopen dat het net zo’n vibe wordt als in Amsterdam!

We’re happy! Our first article has appeared on www.frankwatching.com

You can read it there, or here - and sorry for all you English readers out there: it’s in Dutch…

Kenianen delen innovatieve internetideeën

Het nieuwe werken heeft ook de weg naar Nairobi gevonden. In de iHub en de iLab is het adagium kennis is macht afgeschud, om plaats te maken voor delen, samenwerken en participeren. “De communityspirit bloeit.”