Africa Mobile: African News Go Web2.0

By Author: Mike Kofi Okyere
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How would you like to have the power to decide what news matters and what news does not really matter? Thanks to AfricaNe.ws, this is exactly what you can do. Unlike traditional media outlets (which rely solely on their editors or producers to decide what news should be broadcast) The Africa News web site gives its users the power to choose and contribute the news content that makes up the web site.

AfricaNe.ws is a revolutionary web site on several different levels. To begin with, the Africa News web site is unique in that it focuses solely on news that affects or takes place in Africa. Although there are many news web sites on the internet, virtually all of them offer news from all over the world. Therefore, if you visit one of the web sites, it can be extremely difficult to navigate through all the other stories and find the African news stories that you are actually interested in.

Another unique feature of the African News Network is that it gives small news agencies a way for their reporting and stories to be heard. Although the quality of their work may be higher than that of the major news agencies, it ...
... is normally extremely difficult for small news agencies to get the exposure that they deserve. Whether it is because of the control that a major media outlet has over a television station or the extremely high cost that successful traditional search engine marketing requires, smaller news agencies have not had the funding or resources to compete with larger outlets. However, because AfricaNe.ws allows its users to decide what news is important (instead of letting a network executive make these decisions), as long as a story is accurate and relevant, it can gain major exposure on the web site (regardless of whether it comes from a small or large news agency).

As a result of the first two features discussed above, the African News Network offers its users the major advantage of being exposed to "hidden gems" of news stories that they would not be able to find or read under any alternative circumstances. Because of this additional exposure that the average news web site does not offer, users of AfricaNe.ws will have a deeper understanding of any events taking place in Africa than people who are not users of AfricaNe.ws.