CFC #11021
Democracy
CIVICUS launches online resource centre on participatory governance
BY: CIVICUS World A... DATE: 24 June, 2010 - 13:19
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has launched a global virtual platform for knowledge development, sharing and learning on participatory governance, available at: www.pgexchange.org.
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Nigeria: My Leader 2011 Essay Contest - Deadline Extended
BY: Kingsley Bangwell DATE: 10 June, 2010 - 12:37Once again Democracy is about to give us a chance to choose the leader of our dream in the coming general elections. No nation can grow beyond the quality of its leadership.
Nigeria is loaded with huge potentials, all we need is the leader who can harness all these potentials and move us into a nation of peace and prosperity.
The lifeless body of Floribert Chebeya Bahzire was found in the back seat of his car on June 2 in a neighborhood not far from his home in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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TMG and election monitoring in 2011 – the swift response election monitoring approach in Nigeria
BY: Seyi Fasanmi, ... DATE: 9 April, 2010 - 12:01Since most sub-Saharan African countries gained flag independence, it has been very difficult to conduct less rancorous non-controversial and faultless election, through this they have denied their people of good governance and are yet to be seen to be taking, remarkable measures towards democratization that can move their people forward democratically to create a solid foundation for better life.
Vacancy For Next Generation Leaders In Africa (DESPLAY Season 5)
BY: Kingsley Bangwell DATE: 11 December, 2009 - 13:37Youngstars Foundation International is identifying a generation of young Africans who can see the future and believe that they can change it for good through democracy, good leadership and governance. Democracy Series Participation Learning and Active Youth (DESPLAY), is the Youth Democracy Academy which has continued to reach hundreds of young people in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon since 2005, with the aim of deepening young peoples knowledge about democracy and strengthening youth participation in governance processes.
The African Democracy Forum (ADF) is an African regional network of democracy, human rights, and governance organizations that seek to consolidate democracy in Africa by providing opportunities for democrats to openly express their views. The ADF serves as a platform to build solidarity and exchange of resources among members, and supports membership empowerment.
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NEW TACTICS FEATURED DIALOGUE: Election Monitoring – January 21 - 27
Each month, New Tactics hosts an online dialogue focusing on a
particular tactic. This month's featured online dialogue is on Election
Monitoring. Election Monitoring is a powerful tool in promoting
democracy, political rights and good governance. We will discuss the
principles behind this tactic, the risks and challenges involved, and
the techniques being used by practitioners to overcome these
challenges. We invite you to join our featured resource practitioners
and share your experiences.
The presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana will come on the 7th December, 2008, the Executive Director of the Africa Peace Building Club - NGO working in the field of peace building and leadership cultivation is calling on all candidates contesting the elections to be democratice and abide by the constitution of the country.
Mr Salam Ramani has charged the canditates to accept defeat if they should lose, and asked the winners not to declare themselves winners before the independent electoral commission come out with the final results.
African Democracy Forum Calls on UN Human Rights Council for Special Session on DRC
I received this alert via the WMD's DemocracyNews newsletter of the World Movement for Democracy - www.wmd.org. Nearly 30 democracy and human rights organizations around the World, including the World Movement's African Democracy Forum (ADF) issued a letter today to the UN Human Rights Council calling for a special session regarding the worsening human rights situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Ushahidi Deploys in DRC - mobile number to send SMS reports to is +243992592111
The DRC deployment can be found at http://DRC.ushahidi.com, and the mobile number to send SMS reports to is +243992592111.
From Ken Banks via the mobileactive mailing list: Some of you might be interested to know that Erik Hersman
and his team have just deployed an instance of Ushahidi (http://www.ushahidi.com) to help report on
the DRC crisis.
You can read more on the Ushahidi blog here:
http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2008/11/07/ushahidi-deploys-to-the-congo-drc/
Ushahidi, which means ''testimony'' in Swahili, is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi's roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis. The new Ushahidi Engine is being created to use the lessons learned from Kenya to create a platform that allows anyone around the world to set up their own way to gather reports by mobile phone, email and the web - and map them. It is being built so that it can grow with the changing environment of the web, and to work with other websites and online tools.
