The Human Rights and Justice Group International (Kabissa profile) 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.

We look forward to winning the final trouphy which I believe will take our Cyber Crime Project and ICT projects to a new level.

Read on for the full description of the Campaign Against Cyber Crime Project from the Stockholm Challenge Website.

Four organisations have joined Kabissa this week, two from the Cameroons, two involved in rural conservation and one Arts and human rights group.  Rural-Urban Development and Education Agency  is a youth centered NGO  based in Cameroon that aims to address the educational and employment needs of young people by providing community based teachers and creative teaching methods and urban community projects.  

Kabissa has set itself a huge challenge in deciding to create the new online community with the aim of bringing together over a thousand civil society organisations across the continent. Whereas previously members were "passive users", K2 requires a signifianct change in the way members think of and use the site as now they are being asked to actively participate in the development of Kabissa. In other words the members and users move from being in a passive user state to being active contributors through creating content and building relationhships with each other on a geographical or thematic basis.

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Our job at Kabissa is to facilitate and support members. One way of doing that is to keep everyone up to date with what is happening on the site so we have decided to have a weekly roundup of K2 which includes brief profiles of new members, highlight from the weeks most interesting blog posts and news of any changes to the site and to Kabissa in general.

The good news for Kabissa is that we have 60 new members since January this year which brings our membership to over 1000. Our aim is to try and get at least 5% of these to become actively involved with K2 by the end of the year and build on that and hope there will be some knock on effect and members encourage each other to join in.