Marc Osten of Summit Collaborative made an interesting contribution today, quoted below, to the NTEN Discuss email list. It's very relevant to the ideas Kabissa has been nurturing during the course of the last year for creating opportunities for face to face (F2F = face to face in Marc's jargon below) contact for people in the Kabissa community through local meetups.

Kabissa Ambassadors are local organizers who know (or are eager to learn) Web 2.0 and want to:

• participate in - and help organize - Kabissa Meetups in their local community
• make themselves available to the Kabissa community as experts and mentors locally and through a special Kabissa Ambassadors Directory on our website
• encourage civil society groups in their local community to prioritize and learn how to use the Kabissa online community platform and other social networking sites and services in support of their mission
• use the Kabissa Ambassadors group to network with other ambassadors and interested community members around the continent to share information about civil society priorities in all of their communities and to develop best practices for empowering civil society groups to use innovative technologies
• liaise with the Kabissa team to inform us of the priorities of organizations in their communities and work with us to improve the platform so Kabissa serves their needs better

Does this describe you? Start organizing Kabissa meetups in your community and subscribe to the Kabissa Ambassadors Group.

Don't hesitate to contact Kabissa to let us know you are keen and to give us any feedback.