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Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa is a non-governmental organisation based in the US and working in the area of ICT4D/E. It facilitates access to ICTs by African civil society organisations all over Africa.
Website: http://www.kabissa.org/
Among the activities and projects of Kabissa:
Kabissa has a training manual and programme for African organisations on how to use the internet, under the name "Time to Get Online" (TTGO). Trainings have been done in several countries:
The Time To Get Online manual has been wikified:
Wikipedia, "Kabissa," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabissa
The Maasai Girls Education Fund is dedicated to educating Maasai girls and providing each and every one of our students with the knowledge and skills to get a job in Kenya. In this way, we are empowering Maasai women to end early marriages of girls and develop alternative rites of passage into womanhood, to reduce poverty and all of its consequences in their communities, and to become all that they dream to be.
I have been invited to return to Netsquared as champion for Ipeace, a featured project of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. The innovative project is described as follows:
Ipeace open-source mobile telephony platform will uses J2ME code that can run on a wide range of java-enable phones.
It will include different options (Video, Camera, SMS, MMS,
GPS, GIS) to collect information, alerts and spread those information
world wide.
I am excited to meet the people behind the project, Narcisse Mbunzama Lokwa and Dueme Patrick Safi, and to learn more about the Ipeace project. I am particular intrigued to find out how the creators intend to very quickly implement such a challenging set of features on a limiting platform (mobile phones) and all of this in a way that is anonymous and secure. The need is great for such functionality, and not just in the Democratic Republic of Congo!
Last time I was there was for N2Y2 together with Kim Lowery, presenting our own Kabissa 2.0: Strengthening the Social Web in Africa project which was featured that year. Reviewing Erik's blog post about it, I am reminded that I still think it's well worth doing even two years later!
It will be interesting also to spend more time with innovative friends at the event, including Mary Joyce of DigiActive and Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS. Indeed, it's great that 3 of the 10 finalist projects are based on FrontlineSMS. If you are coming, please let me know @kabissa!
What is Twitter, then? It is "a service for friends, family, and co?workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" It is more than that. Erik Hersman, who blogs at WhiteAfrican.com, describes it this way:
Twitter represents a change in communication. By acting as a global
gateway for updates via SMS (or the web), that then updates all of your
followers, Twitter succeeded in breaking ground in one-to-many
messaging.
If you are using Twitter, you can now follow Kabissa at http://twitter.com/kabissa ...and let us also follow you!
Below is a helpful introductory video that covers all the Twitter basics:
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MGEF Providing Economic Independence for Maasai Women
Kabissa champions Ipeace project at Netsquared conference next week
Ipeace,
is a safety open source mobile telephony platform and Web 2.0 platform
to allow journalist, human rights activist, scientist and people to
expose war crimes and human rights violation in the Democratic Republic
of Congo.
Follow Kabissa at http://twitter.com/kabissa
Kabissa has joined the growing community of social enterprises, activists and innovators in Africa and around the world who are using Twitter to keep in closer contact, share information and deepen personal connections using SMS and the web.
Mogadishu is war zone area, prominent journalist shot dead to day
Mogadishu is war zone area, prominent journalist shot dead to day
EDO STATE POLITICS AND HON. CHIEF ELIZABETH ATIVIE.....WHAT A SACRIFICE
As people awaits the dividends of democracy in Nigeria with Edo state on focus. In the past couple of months different manifestation not ordinarily expectef were seen. The seat of the governor witnessed a change in the month of November 2008, just about two weeks ago the only woman in the Edo state house of assembly in the person of Hon. Chief Mrs Elizabeth Ativie was removed by the court. Her removal came as shock to many people. If we are talking about a generation of women empowerment, why should the only woman in the house be sent packing?
Kabissa Gong Gong May 2009
A monthly newsletter for members of the Kabissa African civil society network
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THERE CAN?T BE FREE,FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTION UNDER IWU IN NIGERIA
W.TEC Completes its Young Women's Program
Mogadishu is under fighting and violence, Three Somali journalists wounded at press conference place in Mogadishu
Draft Brief to Parliamentary Health Committee:Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
review existing mental health policies and legislation's that violate
the rights of persons with mental health disabilities.
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