Next week I will be in Jo’burg to attend the Inaugral Forum for Student Newspapers and Campus Radio Stations hosted by Unitech where I will be speaking.
My presentation is entitled “Overview of online publishing models and content management – demonstrating a free open-source software product for NGOs”. The “software product” in question is one that the New Media Lab are working on in-house, known as Digital News Room (DNR). DNR is basically a customised content management system, and soon to be complete work-flow system, for small news organisations and NGOs based on a php/MySQL platform.
The system has already been tested and used on some of our internal projects including Cue, Hana, and more recently Grocotts Mail.
Earlier this year we found out that NIZA, a Dutch-based NGO, had agreed to fund the project so that more developers could be put on the job and marketing and deployment would be covered.
This looks set to become a larger and ever more exciting project and no doubt I will be mentioning it more than once on this blog!
1 Nic Mar 20th, 2006 at 11:31 amColin, this sounds extremely interesting and i would like to hear more regarding the aims of the forum and the consistency of the communication that will be taking place; ie: is this going to be an ongoing every day forum or an annual, monthly, weekly?
But it all sounds very interesting and i hope that your DNS system is well recieved.