1. DEAR MIMI: Can I use both Webmail and Thunderbird to get my mail?

    Now here's a question that comes up frequently these days in Kabissa's tech support mailbox. Many Kabissa members still use cybercafes and webmail to access their email on Kabissa. After a while, however, they begin to look for more ways to get at their email as the organizations they work for become more sophisticated and get Internet connectivity in their offices, or perhaps they are simply lucky enough to be in a place where Internet access using a dedicated computer affordable. Or, and this would be gratifying to Mimi indeed, they are beginning to make more clever use of a USB ey as Mimi suggested last month to maintain a secure and reliable travelling 'office' in their pockets as they move from cybercafe to cybercafe.

    Continue reading Mimi's advice

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2. UNDER THE BAOBAB TREE: Announcements from Kabissa Members

  • Conference on Cameroon Elections
    • Saturday 17 March 2007 saw a conference in Buea, Cameroon, on the issue of "Why Women and Youth Should Vote". The conference was held at the Cameroon Cultural Centre in Buea, and was organized by the local NGO, the Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders [AHURTOD].
  • Committed Advocates for Sustainable Development and Youth Advancement Launch New Book
    • Committed Advocates for Sustainable Development and Youth Advancement, a civil society organization based in Abuja Nigeria, launched a book on "Positive Advancement For Nigeria (The Way Forward)". This wonderful and educative piece was launched at ECOWAS secretariat in Asokoro, Abuja, on Thursday, 29 March 2007, hosted by ECOWAS president Dr. Ibn Chambers.

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3. KABISSA MATTERS

  • Making Kabissa 2.0 a Reality: Vote for our project at Netsquared!
    • Kabissa is pleased to be in the very exciting competition to recieve a Netsquared Innovation Fund award. Netsquared is an initiative to promote "remixing the web for social change" - precisely what we at Kabissa are very passionate about doing with our networking and information sharing program. Please help to make it a reality by taking time to vote for our "Kabissa 2.0" project. You can read about the proposal and access the voting system at: http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/kabissa-2-0-strengthening-social-web-africa
  • Reminder: Kabissa Member Survey ends Friday!
    • Check your e-mail boxes for a link to the 2007 Kabissa Member Survey! The Kabissa team is really looking forward to this year's survey results, which we'll share in next month's issue of Gong Gong. We rely on your feedback to improve our services each year, so please be honest. If you haven't already responded, please do so by Friday, April 13. As a thank you for your participation, organizations can enter for a prize drawing - check the survey for more details. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact us at community@kabissa.org.
  • The Kabissa Team Leaps Headfirst into the 'blogosphere'
    • The Kabissa team is now blogging at http://www.kabissa.org/blog - and we are all very excited about it. As our Dear Mimi described in her column in November, blogs are powerful tools for reaching out to and dialoguing with people around the world. Tobias Eigen has been quietly been posting to his personal blog at http://saidia.org for some time now, but having a team blog at Kabissa will encourage all of us to share more regularly about our day-to-day experiences and the learning we are doing about ICT in African civil society. The Kabissa blog will also give us opportunities to take some of our fiery Kabissa debates to the blogosphere so others can join in all the fun! Please join us!
  • Nonprofit Technology Conference Roundup
    • Kabissa's Kim Lowery, Co-Executive Director, and Liz Trautman, Member Relations Manager, recently joined over 1,200 nonprofit techies at the Nonprofit Technology Conference organized by NTEN in Washington, DC. Kim spoke as part of two panels at the conference: "You Don't Need to Know Everything, Just What to Ask," for Executive Directors looking to manage technology in their organizations, and "Case Studies in Open Source Software," where she talked about Kabissa's own experience in implementing Joomla, the software we use to manage the Kabissa site.

4. MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN)

    SDN supports communities, especially those in the global South where big business' impacts are greatest, to communicate and negotiate with other stakeholders whose investments and operations affect their lives, livlihoods, and environment. A longtime Kabissa member, SDN makes sophisticated use of ICTs and in particular the web, most recently with the just launched online journal, greenlightnigeria.org : "We hope to create a channel of communication between activists, election mentors on the ground, and the outside world that has a stake in the success of democracy in Nigeria."

    Read on: http://www.kabissa.org/spotlight/sdn.html

    Would you like your organization to be in the Kabissa spotlight? If so, please write to us at editors@kabissa.org for details.

5. NEWS, EVENTS AND DOCUMENTS

6. OPPORTUNITIES POT

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