Attached is a zip archive (2MB) containing the materials Kabissa used in 2007 to facilitate a pilot elearning course titled Running Online Groups. Although we decided not to go on with providing elearning, our elearning pilot project taught us a great deal about the power of elearning in Africa. We are releasing the materials today in the hopes that they will be useful to ICT trainers who might use them to design their own elearning courses. If you do decide to use them, please let us know!

Just a quick note to let you all know that we have sorted out the details for the Kumasi meetup, which is now scheduled for September 23rd. If you are in the meetups group you will have already gotten the link to the application form. If not, here it is again:

http://kabissa.org/application-kabissa-meetup-kumasi

These meetups are a terrific opportunity also for shared learning about ICT and Kabissa, since the people gathering are all members of Kabissa and very interested in improving their use of technology in support of their mission.

Tactical Technology Collective (www.tacticaltech.org) is an international NGO that provide human rights  advocates with guides, tools, training and consultancy to help them develop the skills and tactics they need to increase the impact of their campaigning. 

The following guides and toolkits are available online, as downloadable files or they can be posted to not-for-profits in a book/CD format, free of charge.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have today announced a major grant in support of kiwanja's ongoing activities. The grant, worth a total of $400,000 over two years, will see the ongoing support and development of FrontlineSMS, the creation of an MMS (multimedia messaging) version of the platform, FrontlineSMS outreach, the creation of a non-profit online text messaging aggregator, and the scaling of the nGOmobile competition

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes grants to address the most serious social and environmental problems facing society, where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a difference over time. The Foundation places a high value on sustaining and improving institutions that make positive contributions to society

Hello everyone!

Greetings from the soon to be post-Bush America!

Pursuant to our decision to move the all-trainers mailing list to a Kabissa organic group, I have gone ahead now and created the group and added you to it. This seems to make sense since we're migrating one group to another place, and since the new Kabissa site now is reorganised with a new design and is hopefully more user friendly and functions better than what we had even a few weeks ago. I hope you like it!

So far I have only added the people that were already signed up on the Kabissa site. Roughly a third of the addresses I think were secondary email addresses of training partners or belong to people that are not already registered on the Kabissa site. I will email the all-trainers list as well to make sure nobody is left out. 

Three things I'd like to ask you to do right now to get us started:  

• Please reply to this email to confirm you are receiving posts. (You can now start topics via the group on the website and reply to them when you get the notifications in your email inbox.)
• Please also go to http://www.kabissa.org and make sure you can log in. (If you do not know your password you can go to http://www.kabissa.org/user/password to type in your email address and have a new login link sent to you.)
• Once logged in, please go to your account page and edit your personal profile to add your picture and biographical information.

Thanks! Please contact me ASAP at tobias@kabissa.org if you run into any difficulties or have feedback. I'd really like to get this process underway so that we can turn off the all-trainers list and get the collaboration and info sharing about ICT training in Africa going in our new organic group!

Warm regards, 

Tobias

Mi fon nwende a! I hope that all Kabissa members are keeping well. Many of you will remember that I left Kabissa in 2007 to pursue graduate studies and serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I have completed one year of studies and I am now working for the next two years in Benin. Specifically, my work will be developing the tourist sector in Grand Popo.