Zimbabwe goes to the elections on Saturday the 29th and there seems to be little optimism about the ultimate outcome. Sokwanele have created a number of graphics under their "Election Watch" series including this Google map showing election breaches.

On Tuesday, Tobias and I attended an online seminar on Google Apps for non-profit organisations run by the NTEN (Non-Profit Technology Network) Google Apps described as "a free web based office suite" consists of GMail, Google Talk, Google Docs (Wordprocessor and spreadsheet), Google Calender, Google Web Pages. Since all of the above applications are also available as free open source (Thunderbird, Open Office etc) why should non-profits or anyone for that matter choose to use Google Apps, which requires a relatively decent internet connection as well as one that is fairly cheap if you are going to get the best out of the functions?