liz's blog

Population Action Internation (PAI) is excited to provide a small grants program dedicated to supporting and empowering young people to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Women's rights advocates have made policy-setting inroads into many of the spaces that affect women's lives - governments, schools, religious organizations, health care systems and economies. But what about the virtual space of the internet? The recent Internet Governance Forum provided opportunities to critique, expand and transform the dialogue around a number of issues that impact women in gendered ways, including access, privacy, security, the control of one's information, and regulation of sexual content.

Trees For Life has launched a new wiki project, the Moringa wiki (http://www.tfljournal.org/wiki.php). Moringa is a highly nutritious plant that supplies essential vitamins and minerals and can fight malnutrition (while also being an income generating project for the cultivators). If you are interested in working with Moringa, or are already involved in it you may want to check out this new wiki. From a Trees for Life representative: "The Moringa Wiki is a growing collection of information on everything related to Moringa.

I just found out that idealist.org is now doing Community Podcasts, and their latest one looks at "how people are building community through software." Specifically, they take a look at Ubuntu and the community of developers working on this free, open source operating system.

At the CiviCRM Users Affinity Group meeting this morning, there was a very interesting tangential discussion on how to create a space where people feel comfortable asking questions - and whether there are gender dynamics at play too. David Geilhufe, one of the presenters, stressed that the developers of CiviCRM want to hear the questions that end users and adminstrators (as opposed to the developers and programmers) have. However, many actual end users and administrators said they didn't feel like there was a space to ask those questions.

Well, maybe not quite by storm, but I am excited to participate in my first tech conference. In addition, as Tobias has said, the Kabissa team is finally joining the blogosphere, and what better way to start than by blogging from the Nonprofit Technology Conference?!