You can't take it with you... can you?

Mimi is not one to argue with this wise proverb! But if you have a USB Flash Drive, you can take your most valuable digital belongings with you on your travels and from cybercafe to cybercafe. Mimi is assured that you, savvy Kabissa member and African civil society practitioner that you are, already use webmail (Kabissa, Yahoo, Gmail etc) so you can access vital correspondence from anywhere. But how do you access that essential proposal or address book when you're at a computer miles from the nearest Internet connection?

With a USB Flash Drive you can keep copies of essential documents, but you can also do much more. To get started, head on over to http://www.portableapps.com and find out how you can run popular open source applications such as Firefox Web browser, Thunderbird e-mail, and Open Office on any Microsoft Windows computer - without leaving a trace. (Oh, and if you complete the member survey when it arrives in your inbox you might just win a free USB Flash Drive from Kabissa!)