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Registration Open: Africa Roundtable Featuring Lumana on March 2, 2012

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 8 February, 2012 - 06:39

Yippee! After months of planning and discussion, we finally have the Africa Roundtable on the calendar! Our inaugural catered luncheon will take place on Friday, March 2nd, and from then on the first friday of every month. Each Roundtable will feature a guest speaker and provide plenty of time for each participant to share their own news, goals, and opportunities with the group.

Invitation to join Kabissa Database Review Work Party: Saturday, 4 February 2012

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 1 February, 2012 - 00:01

A comprehensive review of the Kabissa database of organizations is long overdue, especially with an upgrade in the works to make organization profiles even more useful for finding and connecting with African civil society. To this end we are organizing a "work party" this coming Saturday, 4 February and we'd love to have as many people pitching in as possible, both remotely via the Internet and face to face on Bainbridge Island at OfficeXpats, a coworking and meeting space.

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

The internet is going dark on January 18, 2012

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 18 January, 2012 - 07:01

Kabissa is joining an initiative to protest the Protect IP Act / SOPA law on January 18th for which our website at kabissa.org will be taken offline completely for 24 hours. We encourage you to inform yourself about the issue and to participate in the protest  - we received many announcements about the day and opportunities to get involved in the United States and around the world but the most useful was that from Access, reprinted below. 

 

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

Submitted by ddarave 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 ddarave 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.

From the Membership Manager for Blog Action Day 2011 - Food and Kabissa

Submitted by michaelar on 17 October, 2011 - 00:41

Happy Blog Action Day! Today is the day when bloggers around the world are joining a global conversation about an isuse that affect all of humanity. Kabissa is proud to be a Blog Action Day partner this year. It's not too late to get in on the conversation - the issue this year is FOOD. Click here to learn how Kabissa members can participate and join in! 

peaceful demonstration against the increase in fuel and food prices!

Submitted by crystalsimeoni on 18 April, 2011 - 14:56

Dear friend,

We trust that this mail finds you well. Kenya's fuel and food prices are fast becoming unbearable for the majority of Kenyans. The current increment cannot be sustained. Its adverse effects will be felt for a long time to come socially, economically, environmentally and politically. The country's highest leadership can no longer bury its head in the sand and assume the business as usual posture on pro-poor interventions.

icipe: Building Knowledge for Action to avert the Climate threat in East and Horn of Africa

Submitted by sojra on 31 March, 2011 - 14:40

The Kenyan-based African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) launched yesterday on 30th march, 2011 the most avoidable technology system, (ADOPT) Adaptation and Dissemination of the ‘Push-Pull’ Technology to Climate Change and is also a kind of preservation on agriculture approach for smallholder cereal livestock production in drier areas to withstand climate change.

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