Lytro: Youthful yet generational

          
       Lytro camera was invented by Yi-Ren Ng, company founder and CEO of the same-named company, Lytro. 

               It's technology began while he was studying at Stanford University, from which he obtained a PhD in computer science years ago, though he's still only 34. 

                            It's is a small square tube camera with a retro feel to it that does away with the focus button by capturing all the planes of focus or as Lytro describes what it does, “it captures a field of light”, the first consumer camera to do so.

               The camera is a squared-off tube less than five inches long with a lens opening at one end and an LCD touch screen at the other. The first generation of the camera comes in two options: one with 8GB of memory and can hold 350 pictures, and one with 16GB and can hold 750 pictures.

          According to TechCrunch, plenoptic cameras such as Lytro's are "a new type of camera that dramatically changes photography for the first time since the 1800s”.

      In February 2012, Lytro company won the Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal’s Idea and Innovation Award in the consumer technology category. 

                This is a tremendous motivation as well as challenge for us young people because we're blessed with so much technology and information to strive and produce much.

 

                                                                              

UoN, USIU & Daystar Students @ USIU's SKIKA forum

               In early 2012, broadcast and communication students from the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted students from University of Nairobi and Daystar University (Nairobi) for a discussion/ debate regarding "Freedom of Expression as it relates to the Media and the Youth that consume it".

                         

      It was an engaging, positive & open forum, a type of which should be held as regularly as possible by all universities globally in order to involve them in information and sharing of diverse views regarding a subject so relevant and complex in this generation.

                         

Kibera children & youth growing in extremely unhygienic and life threatening conditions

          Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to approximately 1 million people. There is a lot of garbage throughout the slum, causing flies and insects to spread infectious diseases, as well as sewage all over and no toilet facilities. 

                       One latrine is shared by up to 50 shacks/ informal settlements and young boys are the ones given the responsibility to empty the latrines in river water the moment they are filled to capacity.

           
                    That is a serious health hazard and a severe form of water pollution. UN-Habitat and other agencies have tried to assist but the pace is not encouraging. 

        The heartfelt wish is that the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Kenya's environmental body, would get support from the government, local community, international bodies and well wishers in order to drastically improve the situation. 

              

My Lytro photography story on AIESEC magazine's "Culture Beez'' 05 on page 37-38




                     

UoN SOJ's magazine on issuu website

                           University of Nairobi School of Journalism's (SOJ) ''The Campus Clarion'' magazine was uploaded on the globally-acclaimed issuu website. Visit the link, http://issuu.com/campusmago/docs/campusmago, to read it on the site and you may also click the image below to read here.

      

          SOJ is grateful for that as the content in the magazine displays the talent of the students to readers around the world, while at the same time raising the pedestal for further publications.

                      

Mankind's Heartfelt Desire to Eradicate HIV/ AIDS: GETTING TO ZERO

                 This Saturday, Decemebr 1st, it's another World Aids Day with the theme “Getting to zero.” 

       Getting to zero 2011-2015 Strategy is a Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS (UNAIDS) that aims to advance global progress in achieving country set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development goals by 2015.   

            The campaign aims to achieve 3 zeros: 0 -HIV infections, 0 -discrimination and 0 -Aids-related deaths. It builds on last year’s successful World AIDS Day "Light for Rights" initiative encompassing a range of vital issues identified by key affected populations.

      As a representative of the youth, I find this very encouraging and optimistic, for the fact that I can and will contribute much to see this become a possibility. Africa having been ravaged by this scourge, I get the motivating to participate in my full capacity.

            Some might argue that it's a bit too ambitious but I push every inch of pessimism aside. So, let's support UNAIDS and every human being affected by HIV/ AIDS so that we live to see such kind of history in our lifetime as well as save the youth of our time.

School of Journalism finally launches The Campus Clarion magazine

           It's great and satisfying to be associated with the pioneering team of "The Campus Clarion", University of Nairobi School of Journalism students' magazine, which is finally out. It has been a long, tough and trying journey but when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. We proved that right!

           I'm glad to be on the cover page with other  committed and persevering comrades, and my story "Behold The Lytro, The Next Level in Photography" is on page 15, besides other stories and articles from various talented and gifted sojerians.

We hope and believe this is the beginning of a journey that will lead to much more evidence of the immense abilities of NUJOSA students. Enjoy the magazine.

 

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