A monthly newsletter for members of the Kabissa African civil society network

Contents

1. Dear Mimi: Internet Advice Column
2. Under the Baobab Tree: Announcements from Kabissa Members
3. Kabissa Matters
4. Technology News and Resources
5. Opportunities Pot
6. Member Spotlight: Human Rights and Justice Group in Nigeria

Dear Kabissa members: The Youth Employment Network (YEN) is an interagency initiative of the United Nations, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Bank which pools experience to address the youth employment challenge.

We are currently creating a database of initiatives in West Africa that are tackling youth employment. The database already has 100 projects from Anglophone West Africa and we are now hoping to continue expanding in these countries as well as extend it to include Francophone and Lusophone West Africa.

The Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) (website kabissa profile) is pleased to call for applications for the position of Regional Coordinator, based in Bamako, in the Republic of Mali. The deadline for receipt of applications is 14 August 2008. More information is available at the following internet addresses:

Job Description: www.ernwaca.org/web/IMG/pdf_RC_Job_Desccription.pdf
Call for Applications (in French): www.ernwaca.org/web/spip.php?article138
Call for Applications (in English): www.ernwaca.org/web/spip.php?article139

Please circulate this announcement to all those who may be interested and to appropriate electronic lists and webmasters. Do not hesitate to include it in institutional and other publications.

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The Kilimanjaro Lions project have brought tracking lions in real time to the world wide web. Project Manager, Mr. Seamus blogs regularly and has been working on this for a while:

The first-ever international conference on Global Ethics, Values and Mindfulness: A Quest for Happiness (October 21-23, 2008 in Jos, Nigeria), will being together a community of diverse global and local leaders and guests to examine key issues on Ethics, Values and Mindfulness to help catalyze a shift in strengthening positive individual and societal development in Nigeria.

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Gbenga Sesun is excited over the new technology village in Nigeria's capital, Abuja where he recently met with the manager, Hauwa!  

 

The abrupt withdrawal of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from this Friday’s runoff presidential election essentially handed President Robert Mugabe a victory and left Zimbabwe’s future up in the air. However, given the

kiwanja.net launches its next-generation text messaging platform for the
grassroots non-profit (NGO) community.   FrontlineSMS continues to unlock the potential of mobile technology for non-profits working for positive social and environmental change throughout the developing world. 

 

kiwanja.net's work is innovatively and uniquely centred around three complementary areas:

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Ore Somolu is a Nigerian blogger and Executive Director of the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC).  Beth Kanter profiles Ore's work with women and technology in Nigeria as well as her own personal experience of mentoring for the W.TEC project.