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Connecting the African Continent with Powerful, User-Created Content

By Expert Author: Osei Kofi | Article Abstract
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Heading to the African continent is easy these days; you simply need to jump on the web and visit a news portal that directly involves you with the news and happenings in Africa. Having developed a strong relationship with Web 2.0, the African continent is connected with the international community and allows worldwide visitors to utilize key buzzwords to travel intimately into the news of the continent.

Domestically, with Web 2.0, the African continent is connected through social bookmarking networks, such as AfricaNe.ws, which develop and strengthen the relationships between all of the countries and people in the continent. By encouraging individuals to choose the most relevant and important news stories, the information is organic, unfiltered, and comes straight from the people. Thus, the news that is derived from this process is real and important, without any filters created by news organizations in other countries. The current events and news, as told by the first-hand witnesses on the African continent, is broadcasted all over the world.

Fundamentally, with a social bookmarking network, the fundamentals of discrimination and filtering are eliminated. The grassroots news and information about the African continent can flow across international boundaries, without any type of filtration or suppression. When an user engages with Web 2.0, they take the news into their own hands by having the ability to connect with the African continent, collaborate with others, and share information with the world. Web 2.0 and social bookmarking networks allow people, both domestically and internationally, to make a real connection with the countries in the African continent.

The divisions amid social media have recently gathered frequently to discuss censorship, regulations, and even blogging in the realm of news portals. There have been heavy discussions whether other media producers might join in the revolutionary social media. There are many issues that centre around the relevancy of blogging and the news, and whether or not news bloggers should be added to the mainstream news media.

Despite the news media debates, the importance and relevancy of Web 2.0 and social bookmarking networks is making a deep impact for African news, both domestically and internationally. By bringing people and countries together, social bookmarking networks have allowed people to link together on the net and experience cultural growth. It has been an important step in distributing real, relevant, and organic African news to others around the world.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and social bookmarking networks such as AfricaNe.ws, people are connecting with the African countries, both domestically and internationally. Breaking down international boundaries, social bookmarking networks bring people closer together. Through the process of creating, producing, and sharing web content, Web 2.0 news portals continue to empower individuals to share with the world relevant, real news and events. This process in itself provides the news media with unfiltered news stories that come straight from the people of the African continent.

Web 2.0 and African social bookmarking networks will make a tremendous impact on the domestic and international communities, with the important, real news stories connecting people and the news media around the world.
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