Berlin

The two-week winter school “E-Learning in the Age of Globalisation” runs from November, 22nd to 29th. The workshop targets participants from developing countries who work in the field of ICT-enhanced learning at universities, public organisations or in the private sector, such as staff member of e-learning centers or academics, who foster the adoption and spread of e-learning in their departments. Applicants must have spent at least three months in Germany for educational or research purposes.

What is CiviCRM?

Was ist CiviCRM?

This weekend, Germany is celebrating the 20 year anniversary of German reunification. A big 4-day event is kicking off today with 7.5 meter tall giant marionettes at the Berlin town hall. Meanwhile, a huge group of German social media enthusiasts and NGOs are marking the anniversity in Berlin with Social Camp 2009, a two-day "un-conference" where the agenda will be set only at the start of the first day. I will be participating, and am greatly looking forward to the experience. It will be great to connect with all the amazing participants and to learn how Germans do barcamps!

I am also looking forward to seeing how Kabissa fits into this German social media "scene", and to inviting people here interested in using social media to "Connect for Africa" to join and help shape the Connect Deutschland group on Kabissa. If you are in Germany and interested in Kabissa, please contact me! Also, you are most welcome to join Kabissa (membership is free) and consider following @kabissa on twitter and joining the Facebook Kabissa Page.

So far the event and website appears to be very German language oriented, so I will do my best to share the learnings here for the benefit of the broader Kabissa community. Some useful links are below to get started:

• Very compelling and well produced video of Social Camp Berlin 2008 on vimeo
• Follow along on Twitter @socialcamp09
• Participants list for Saturday and Sunday
• NGOs participants list for Saturday and Sunday