Kabissa Gong Gong May 2009

A monthly newsletter for members of the Kabissa African civil society network

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1. Dear Mimi: Internet Advice Column

This month, Mimi is pleased to acknowledge a guest appearance of Sokari Ekine, our Community Coordinator in 2008, who posted to the Kabissa blog about the very useful (and freely available) publications for activists provided by Tactical Tech. Please let us know if you order these publications and how you use them to strengthen your work.

Tactical Technology Collective (www.tacticaltech.org) is an international NGO that provide human rights advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning.

The following guides and toolkits are available online, as downloadable files or they can be posted to not-for-profits in a book/CD format, free of charge.

1. 'Mobiles in-a-box', designed to support campaigners to use mobile telephony in their work.

English: http://mobiles.tacticaltech.org
French: http://fr .mobiles.tacticaltech.org

Email: mobiles@tacticaltech.org

2. 'Message in-a-box', a set of strategic guides and tools to create media and communicate for social change.

English: http://www.messageinabox.tacticaltech.org/

Email: miab@tacticaltech.org

3. 'Security in-a-box', created to meet the digital security and privacy needs of advocates and human rights defenders.

English: http://security.ngoinabox.org/
Soon in Arabic, Russian, French, Spanish

Email: security@tacticaltech.org

3.'Maps for Advocacy', an effective guide to using maps in advocacy campaigns.

English: http://www.tacticaltech.org/mapsforadvocacy
Email: mapping@tacticaltech.org

4. 'Visualising Information for Advocacy', a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through visual communication.

English: http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign
Soon available in Russian

Email: infodesign@tacticaltech.org

5. 'Quick 'n' Easy Guide to Online Advocacy', aims to expose advocates to online services that are quick to use and easy to understand.

English: http://onlineadvocacy.tacticaltech.org/

6. 'Base NGO in-a-box', is a collection of tools for the day-to-day running of small to medium sized NGOs.

English: http://base.ngoinabox.org/

Currently being updated and translated into a number of languages.

Email: base@tacticaltech.org

Tactical Tech are happy to send copies of any or all of these toolkits and guides to human rights advocates working in marginalised communities. For general enquires email: toolkits AT tacticaltech DOT org

Website: http://www.tacticaltech.org

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2. Under the Baobab Tree: News and Blogs from Kabissa Members

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3. Kabissa Matters

Membership Update

16 organisations joined Kabissa this month, bringing our membership total as of today to 1405.

The Kabissa site received 5474 unique visits in the month of February, according to ClustrMaps.

News from Kabissa

Kabissa continues its process of taking an evolutionary step. We are streamlining our Internet services to focus on domain registration, and relaunching our community website this summer. Stay tuned!

If you have not done so already, please read the following posts to imform yourself of the changes taking place.

4. Technology News and Resources

5. Opportunities Pot

YEN Databank of Youth Employment Initatives in West Africa launched!

6. Member Spotlight

This space is reserved for spotlighting exemplary organizations making particularly innovative use of technology in support of their mission.

Have you just launched a powerful new online initiative? Got a new website you want to share with the community? A technology story to tell about an approach that worked for your organization? Tell us about it!