The Human Rights and Justice Group International entry "Campaign Against Cyber Crime (CAC)" was selected as finalist under economic development for the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.

The finalists have been selected from the excellent collection of ICT projects that have competed for the Stockholm Challenge 2008 six category awards and all are invited to come to Stockholm to participate in all parts of the event, show their work and meet with peers and many others who devote their time, skills and interest to ICT for development.

Jessika Tremblay is an undergraduate student at McGill Univeristy in Canada.  She is conducting research for her bachelor's thesis on the impact of the internet on development in Africa.

Part of her research consists in interviewing people over the internet with a few short questions related to their use of the internet for development purposes.

If anyone is interested in answering a few questions please can they contact  me at community at kabissa dot org and I will foward your interest to Ms Tremblay.

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oikos Johannesburg organizes the Inaugural African Develoment Partnership (ADP), titled "Creating an Environment for Sustainable Development", in which the task will be finding a role for young leaders in sustainability-orientated action. The ADP is an African youth initiative that aims at strengthening the development of human capacity for leadership by bridging the gap between today's leaders and the change agents of tomorrow.

Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research.

Read a report by Charlie Beckett and Laura Kyrke-Smith (eds.) on Media's role in African Development at http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2007/thinking-2270.html.

For a hard copy of the final report, please contact Laura Kyrke-Smith of The Drum Beat at Polis@lse.ac.uk.