Hello!

I had a very interesting day at the Internet Training for Journalism lectures at St. Augustine University of Tanzania. I have learnt how to create a blog, write, publish and edit posts. The exercise was very simple and required very few steps that I can easily share to my students or any other person who will be interested to open up a blog. 

The facilitator Piek Johansson took us through various internet websites that had an impact on peoples' lives around the world for many years for example ebay, wikipedia, blogger, amazon just to mention a few. Moreover, there was a discussion on the continent with the highest internet users whereby Asia was the first one with 46.6% of its population using the internet while Africa had 9.4%. Apart from that, it was pointed out North American has the highest internet penetration of 89.0%. However, Africa was at the bottom of the list of internet penetration with 28.6%. You can find these statistics from internet world statistics.

Surprisely, I was happy to see how quickly we could get factual information about my own country Tanzania on the popular websites people visit to obtain information. The most popular website in Tanzania is google.com followed up by youtube, facebook, yahoo and millardayo.com. Other website were google.co.tz, jamiiforums.com and zoomtanzania.com. 

Generally, I learnt that people use internet for various reasons including reading international news, chatting, researching, blogging and sharing of information through social media.