Three excellent ICT initiatives from Africa are the Paradigm Initiative Nigeria; the Open Cafe based in Potchefstroom, South Africa and online; and the TrainersPod which is a three country project in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.

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?

Kabissa has found itself in the center of attention in the much hyped Web 2.0 movement and the opportunities it presents for African civil society. To name some highlights: