In Search of a Passionate Volunteer to Join the Kabissa Team . . .

Submitted by WILFRED SINAY on 13 March, 2012 - 18:44

Would you like to be an instrument for change in Africa?

Kabissa is now seeking potential candidates for its volunteering opportunities:

  • Membership Manager whose work shall be in managing and handling community correspondence and sign-ups and providing technical support to members.
  • Member Content Editor who shall be responsible for polishing posts, comments and content of the Kabissa website as well as in providing encouragement to members seeking to post in the site wide blog and in “hunting” spams.
  • Social Network Outreach who shall spread the content relevant to Kabissa on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.

More than the education, training, experience and motivation that we would usually see in most of our volunteers’ applicantions, we are in search of candidates who have the commitment and heart for volunteering and the passion and love for online networking for a cause.

If you are a cut for volunteerism and have the fervor for helping people or if you would know persons who have that same enthusiasm, you can be that instrument for change.

To apply and learn more of this opportunity, please visit www.kabissa.org/about/volunteering

Wilfred B. Sinay
Volunteer Recruiter 

Africa Roundtable Featuring Kabissa on April 6, 2012

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 12 March, 2012 - 23:32

The Africa Roundtable is an initiative of Kabissa to organize lunch meetings on the first Friday of every month to bring together people with a mutual interest in Africa for networking, featured speakers, peer learning and mutual support. Events take place on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle on the west coast of the United States, with remote participation by Internet possible. This month, Kabissa itself will be the featured topic at the roundtable.

(Curious about how Africa Roundtables run? Take a look at the video of last month's roundtable event featuring Lumana - it was incredibly interesting!)

Please join and share! Invitation to join the Africa Roundtable on Bainbridge Island

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 25 January, 2012 - 22:01

I just sent the email below to Kabissa members and supporters in Washington State about the Africa Roundtable, an initiative I am starting up here on Bainbridge Island where I live. This is something I've been interested in doing for a long time, and if it works here on Bainbridge we should join forces with others to replicating it in other parts of the world. Please help spread the word and let me know if you have ideas or are interested in helping out. Thanks! 

 

Dear Kabissa friends in Washington,

I am writing to let you know about a new initiative I am starting here on Bainbridge Island where I live called the Africa Roundtable.

I would appreciate it if you could take a moment to learn about the initiative, join in if you are interested and help spread the word in your network by forwarding this email, sharing the Africa Roundtable facebook page, mentioning @africaroundtabl on twitter or just simply pointing people to http://www.africaroundtable.org.

Where does this idea come from? In the months since returning to Bainbridge from Berlin, and while networking and looking for organizations to work with, I have come across a number of people on the island who have an interesting Africa connection but who have never heard of each other. As the founder of Kabissa, an African civil society networking platform operated by volunteers, I am committed to grassroots empowerment through technology capacity building and networking. I'd love to do this on Bainbridge with people and organizations working in Africa, with regular face to face meetings to explore opportunities for cooperation, peer learning and mutual support.

The idea behind organizing both lunchtime and evening meetings is to accommodate schedules (not everyone is actually on Bainbridge during the day) and types of engagement (not everyone works on Africa on a day-to-day basis but many would like to learn what is being done for Africa from Bainbridge and support it). Another idea is to have these events be catered - Simply Bainbridge have made us a terrific offer which I think will contribute greatly to making our Roundtable gatherings enjoyable and successful for all involved.

Here’s the link again to join in: http://www.africaroundtable.org.

With thanks,

Tobias Eigen,
Kabissa Founder

P.S. Here’s a sample short text you can take verbatim (or tweak) to share the URL with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter:

Do you work on Africa from (or near) Bainbridge Island? Join the new Africa Roundtable! http://africaroundtable.org

Pedagogical Integration of ICT: Successes and Challenges from 100+ African Schools - 3rd edition

Submitted by Dramane Darave on 19 November, 2011 - 04:03

 

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The PanAfrican Research Agenda aimed to better understand how the pedagogical integration of ICT can improve the quality of teaching and learning in Africa.

In the first project phase, national research teams gathered data on the educational use of ICT in 13 countries: Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Central African Republic, Uganda, Mozambique, Mali, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Congo, Cameroon, and South Africa, and Zambia. Data were collected according to a mixed-method approach, using quantitative data (e.g., questionnaires) and qualitative data (e.g., interviews, observations) on how ICT were integrated into education. In all, 120 schools, 800 school administrators, 8 940 teachers, and 242 873 students participated in the project.

Intégration pédagogique des TIC : Succès et défis de 100+ écoles africaines - 3e édition

Submitted by Dramane Darave on 19 November, 2011 - 04:02

 

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L'agenda panafricain de recherche vise à « mieux comprendre comment l'intégration pédagogique des TIC peut améliorer la qualité des enseignements et des apprentissages en Afrique ». Au cours de la première phase du projet, une équipe nationale de recherche a recueilli des données à propos des usages des TIC pour l'enseignement et l'apprentissage dans chacun des treize pays suivants : le Ghana, la Gambie, la Zambie, le Sénégal, la République centrafricaine, l'Ouganda, le Mozambique, le Mali, le Kenya, la Côte d'Ivoire, le Congo, le Cameroun et l'Afrique du Sud.

World Food Day

Submitted by Kirsty McLullich on 16 October, 2011 - 21:21

Today is World Food Day.

For some people food is something to be experimented with – creating mouth-watering dishes, entertaining friends, savouring flavours… For others food is a daily challenge, trying to scrape together enough money to buy something for the family to eat, knowing that they will never be satisfied.

The PanAf Publications Catalogue / Le catalogue des publications du projet PanAf

Submitted by Dramane Darave on 13 October, 2011 - 17:11

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This is a catalogue of publications of the PanAf Project.
The publications listed in this document have been produced as outputs of the Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT Project , funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC,www.idrc.ca) and implemented by the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA, www.ernwaca.org), in collaboration with the University of Montreal. 
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