Friends at IDS (Sussex) tell me that I am a "knowledge intermediary". With their encouragement I hope this blog will highlight some issues in the African knowledge and networking field. Reflective, well written articles on these issues will be profiled - found in my daily trawl for material to populate various websites (ANSA-Africa, FANRPAN and others in the pipeline).
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Towards an inventory of African government speeches
Knowledge intermediary work in Africa would be made so much more effective if we had an inventory of (re)sources for government speeches across the continent. This point was rammed home again yesterday when the daily listing of new speeches here in South Africa popped into my inbox: it contained the lead-in commentary (by the new RSA president) on land and associated issues in those countries that had been part of the African Peer Review Mechanism process. Reading the speech it is clear that the APRM meeting in Benin was discussing comparative processes and issues in APRM reviewed states - potentially a very interesting topic. What other issues were reviewed I wonder? The Botswana government issues a weekly listserve of key speeches; it pops into the inbox on a Sunday night or Monday morning. I mine it for material for both the FANRPAN and Ansa-Africa websites. It would be interesting to know of other such government-sponsored dissemination processes - can any one help with some pointers?
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