Quality Affordable Volunteering in Uganda

Submitted by Isaac Ssamba on 28 January, 2013 - 23:07

“To volunteer here is a life changing experience which you will never forget, to Volunteer with an organization Called BoHU ( Beacon of Hope Uganda) Is certainly not only going to put something into a desperately poor community, but also give you an adventure of a lifetime.”- Chris (former volunteer) from- Denmark

Are you looking to do something more meaningful on your travels? Beacon of Hope Uganda recruits volunteers for locally-run community, conservation, teaching, building and sports projects around Uganda. Volunteers are an integral part of everything that happens at Beacon of Hope Uganda. We couldn’t do it without them. There are many ways to volunteer your time, as well as your skills, to help out. Depending on the season, we always have a list of much needed services of volunteers within our projects around Uganda.

Leading From Love: The attentiveness that brought accountability

Submitted by Jennifer Lentfer on 28 January, 2013 - 05:25

A guest post on how-matters.org by Rajasvini Bhansali

It had been six months since I started my new role as a management advisor for a network of youth polytechnics[1] in rural Kenya. The Wakamba village elders in Maseki village where I lived had named me Mutanu meaning “one who smiles a lot.” My career, coursework, and volunteer training in management consulting, policy analysis, community organizing, and organizational development, had prepared me well for the task.

Or so I thought.

Africa Roundtable Report: Now we know more about YouThink Nigeria. Good luck with the way forward!

Submitted by Diana Cocoru on 27 January, 2013 - 19:18

Yesterday it was a big day for me. I managed to organize and chair the first Kabissa Roundtable in an African country (Nigeria), featuring a very young organisation – YouThink Nigeria. The name stands for You (what do you want to change), Youth (how to involve the youth), Think (think about it) and Ink (write it out in the form of a proposal/recommendation).

eLearning Africa 2013 - May 29th to 31st in Windhoek, Namibia - Media Partnership with Kabissa

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 23 January, 2013 - 19:13

We are pleased to be media partners for eLearning Africa once again this year! I enjoyed meeting the conference organizers in Berlin this afternoon (http://www.icwe.net) to work out the details as well as to learn more about ICWE programs to organize educational conferences and workshops around the world.

Stay tuned for updates via Kabissa about the eLearning Africa Photo Competition, registration deadlines and other opportunities to participate in the annual conference.

 

eLearning Africa 2013 – Register now!

The 8th eLearning Africa conference will be held from May 29th to 31st at the Safari Conference Centre, Windhoek, Namibia. Thekey networking event for developing eLearning capacities in Africa, eLearning Africa 2013 will be hosted by Namibia's Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Ministry of ICT. Details at http://www.elearning-africa.org/conference.php

Africa Roundtable Jan 2013 featuring Olumide Ojetunde and Debo Adewara at the Lagos Secretariat of YouThink Nigeria

Submitted by Diana Cocoru on 16 January, 2013 - 01:50

I am very enthusiastic about the next Kabissa Roundtable organised this time in Lagos, on the 26th of January 2013, 2pm, at the Secretariat of YouThink Nigeria. 

We have started the series of Roundtables in March 2012 and we have been continuously adapting them taking into account the lessons learned during the process. It is the first time when we manage to organize one Roundtable "at home", in Africa. 

When I celebrated my one year anniversary with Kabissa, in July 2012, I stated that I plan to organize Africa Roundtables wherever I will find myself on this fascinating continent. Continuing my Tour of Africa I have met several Young Activists in Lagos and I have promised I would organize a Roundtable here, in Lagos, featuring YouThink Nigeria, an organisation which is at the beginning of its promising path, but which already shows great potential: one of their written solution which followed a Think Tank meeting won an award as an essay sent for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) 60th anniversary in South-Africa. The topic they covered was "How your country can reduce the incidences of women who die in childbirth".

Here I am, succeeding in organizing this event as promised. Therefore it is my pleasure to invite you to register to the event, following this link, where you can also find more details about the speakers and who else is coming. You will also find the address of the location on the registration page if you plan to attend in person. Online participation is also possible, thanks to the logistics arrangements taken care of by the host and featured organisation.

This event stands as a proof of how Kabissa's resources (passionate volunteers, online platform, extended network) can be used to help grassroots organisations to make themselves heard and supported in their activities.

AGFUND Prize to Honor Four African Projects

Submitted by Ali Eltahir on 12 January, 2013 - 08:53

HRH Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, President of the Arab Gulf Program will present the AGFUND international Prize for Pioneering Development Projects to the winners. This will take place in a ceremony to be held in Manila, the Philippines on 27 February 2013, where a total amount of US$ 1000,000 (one million) will be distributed to the eight projects which won the Prize in 2010 and 2011; four of these projects are from African countries:

On your marks for the BlackBerry Port-a-thon

Submitted by Adebayo Adegbembo on 11 January, 2013 - 14:02

New Year’s greetings all. Eleven days into what promises to be a great year, I believe we have our development hats on and the holiday ones off :-) .

Exciting times are here once again with yet another port-a-thon by you-know-who! Yes folks, the same guyz who perhaps coined the term port-a-thon are at it again! RIM, makers of the BlackBerry will be commencing a dual 36 hours port-a-thon today. The events start at 6pm local time, today (January 11) and runs through Saturday January 12 to 6pm Sunday, January 13.

Having partaken in the last port-a-thon, I find that a bit of recap is a good way to start. In brief, the last event which ran from December 14 to 16, 2012 had an average of 113 app submissions per hour from about 63 countries over the 36 hours period. This is according to a report sent to me by RIM.

From Access: Yahoo! bolsters privacy with global HTTPS support

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 11 January, 2013 - 08:17

Many Kabissa members still rely on Yahoo for their email, and whether you knew it or not your connection was not securely encrypted.. until now. Read on to learn more from Access, a self-proclaimed "new global movement for digital freedom" that is well worth following. 

Yahoo! bolsters privacy with global HTTPS support

2:19pm | 4 January 2013 | by Peter Micek

Access is encouraged to see that Yahoo! is now supporting HTTPS globally for its mail and messaging services, an important and overdue step for the security and privacy of its users. Pending technical analysis of its implementation, we believe this decision by Yahoo! responds to some of the concerns raised by civil society and security experts, and signals a continuing strengthening of their services’ privacy protections.

HTTPS is now enabled by default on Yahoo!'s mobile apps for Apple iOS, Windows 8, and Android. For users accessing Yahoo! Mail through their computer's browser, HTTPS can be switched on via the mail settings in the top right of the screen (go here to find out how). Once it's activated, all Yahoo! Messenger conversations in the browser window are also protected. According to the company, HTTPS is coming later this year to the desktop version of Messenger.

This move toward greater security has been a long time coming for the third-largest email provider in the world. For several years, Access has joined civil society organizations, activists, and security experts in pushing the company publicly and privately to implement HTTPS. Most recently, Access Tech Director Gustaf Bjorksten joined an open letter to new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. On the heels of the letter’s delivery, Access members campaigned in favor of the move to HTTPS by default. AsGmail and Hotmail enabled HTTPS in the past few years, Yahoo! Mail was left as the only major web-based email service to not provide secure connections.

As Yahoo! states, HTTPS is a standard way to protect your data over the internet and wireless networks. Websites that communicate with your web browser or send email solely through HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol, transmit “in the clear,” leaving data open and susceptible to intercept. HTTPS -- the "S" represents its use of Secure Socket Layer or SSL -- sends traffic over the encrypted and therefore safer SSL to connect your browser with the website's server. When you communicate using encryption, using the HTTPS protocol, it is very difficult for an outside party to unscramble the information that is passing over the internet and wireless networks.

Many at-risk users depend on Yahoo! Mail, and the HTTPS option is an important step toward protecting their safety and human rights to privacy and freedom of expression. Access looks forward to working with Yahoo! as the company rolls out HTTPS by default globally across all products and services.

Source: https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/01/04/yahoo-bolsters-privacy-with-gl...

Happy Holidays From Kabissa

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 21 December, 2012 - 19:27

Please Donate to Kabissa

Dear friends, 

As 2012 draws to a close and the new year beckons, I wish a happy holidays to you and your loved ones on behalf of the Kabissa team and board of directors.

I have a final favor to ask before you turn off your computer and join your families for the holidays. Please make a donation to Kabissa this year. Even a small token donation gives us encouragement and helps us reach our goal.

http://kabissa.org/donate

Since 1999, Kabissa has been a trusted partner to organizations working to improve the lives of people in Africa. We will be in touch again in the new year to brief you on our plans for scaling up our activities with a view to becoming a globally trusted source for Who’s Doing What Where In Africa.

Our idea is to leverage trust relationships in our community to dramatically increase the number of organizations in our directory, help the most trusted organizations become better known, and publish the resulting high quality database as open data so that information about the most trusted organizations gets to where it is most needed.*

This is a unique and innovative idea and its impact will be deeply felt across Africa. Please donate generously and help make it a reality!

http://kabissa.org/donate

We are very excited about what the new year brings for Africa and are thrilled that Kabissa has a role to play in empowering organizations working on the continent to improve the lives of people in their communities. Thank you for your support and partnership. 

In gratitude,

Tobias Eigen Signature

Tobias Eigen,
Founder and Executive Director

* For more details on the Kabissa Trust Badges idea and to share your ideas (or offer partnership!) please see http://kabissa.org/trust. We'd love to hear from you. Kabissa is an enthusiastic advocate of Open Data as explained at http://kabissa.org/open. 

What's Working Competition deadline approaching- December 31!

Submitted by Sharon Kennedy on 20 December, 2012 - 03:42

Youth employment is now a priority in most regions of the world.There is growing focus and investment in youth employment programs, but at the moment there is limited evidence on what works, which leads to low impact and wasted resources.

With this in mind, the Youth Employment Network (YEN) and Making Cents International have partnered up to create the What's Working? competition to find out what strategies and approaches are working and share them among the youth employment community.

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