Based in Accra, Ghana, the West Africa Coordinator will be the key regional liaison for Free the Slaves' Supporting Grassroots Partnerships Program.  Free the Slaves' partnerships program works with local anti-slavery movements to support holistic ways of bringing people out of slavery. The West Africa Coordinator, working part-time, will report to the Director of Partnerships, based in Washington DC.

The position will be approximately 40% time or a total of 2 full days per week (schedule to be determined by West Africa Regional

The Human Rights and Justice Group International (Kabissa profile) entry "Campaign Against Cyber Crime (CAC)" was selected as finalist under economic development for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.

The finalists have been selected from the excellent collection of ICT projects that have competed for the Stockholm Challenge 2008 six category awards and all are invited to come to Stockholm to participate in all parts of the event, show their work and meet with peers and many others who devote their time, skills and interest to ICT for development.

We look forward to winning the final trouphy which I believe will take our Cyber Crime Project and ICT projects to a new level.

Read on for the full description of the Campaign Against Cyber Crime Project from the Stockholm Challenge Website.

Seeking volunteers in the following such as:- doctors, nurses. caregivers, administrators, accountants, counselors and fundirasers for anotherhope children's ministry Uganda.

www.anotherhope.org
www.myspace.com/ruthnsubuga

 

Digiactive  provides a range of tools you can use for digital activism, advocacy, campaigning and documentation by tracking examples of their use from around the world.   For example the site below was created by a group of students to campaign against corruption in Azebaijan.  The tools they used were:

Website, petition, digital photographs, discussion board

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An opportunity for Kabissa's female members be a virtual technology mentor to a group of Nigerian women. 

World famous Senegalese musician, Youssour N'dour has founded an organization called Brima to help small business start ups and support emerging musicians and artists - particularly women and youth.  

 

I'm pleased to see that Ushahidi and nearly all of the projects I supported made it to the finalists stage! There were few African projects in the running but there were some really good ones and I think in fact that most of the winning projects show terrific potential to be very beneficial for Africa. Congratulations everyone!

Jessika Tremblay is an undergraduate student at McGill Univeristy in Canada.  She is conducting research for her bachelor's thesis on the impact of the internet on development in Africa.

Part of her research consists in interviewing people over the internet with a few short questions related to their use of the internet for development purposes.

If anyone is interested in answering a few questions please can they contact  me at community at kabissa dot org and I will foward your interest to Ms Tremblay.

 

 

Call for Research Proposals on ICTs for Participatory Local Development

In September last year, I blogged about the very innovative nGOmobile competition - well, it seems it was a resounding success! I received an email today from Ken announcing that the winners have been chosen and profiled yesterday at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona. (Sokari blogged earlier about Ken's encounter there with a $20 screenless mobile phone!)

More info, links and photos to come soon on the nGOmobile website, but in the meantime - congratulations to the winners! According to the website, there were over 70 applications, from which the following four winners were selected by a panel of judges:

Participatory rapid response forest management system (Kenya)
This project is working with local communities to promote the protection and sustainable use of environmental resources. They plan to implement messaging services to help with reporting, field communications and to provide an early warning system to help combat poaching and illegal logging

Ask NETWAS a water, sanitation and hygiene question and get an answer (Uganda)
This NGO plans to launch an SMS-based service for rural communities allowing them to ask a range of water-based questions on topics such as sanitation, hygiene, water harvesting, and water technologies

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