How to Disable Facebook's Facial Recognition Feature

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 9 June, 2011 - 09:39

You may have heard that Facebook turned on a new feature recently without notifying users - automatic facial recognition. When uploading photos to Facebook, your contacts will now be prompted automatically to tag you in the photos. This is done using a "picture fingerprint" (as the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls it). You may like this - but it is possible to turn it off if you don't like it or are concerned about your security... as I think many activists or civil society practitioners working in Africa should be.

We did it! Kabissa has secured permanent place on Global Giving

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 18 August, 2010 - 07:52

Last week we made an appeal to Kabissa members to help us meet an important deadline for Kabissa on Sunday, August 15. By that day we needed to have raised $4,000 from at least 50 people to secure a permanent spot on Global Giving, an initiative that lets you select the projects you want to support, make a tax-deductible contribution, and get regular progress updates - so you can see your impact.

Impaired Social Mobility - do governments need to step in to empower us to backup our personal data on social networking sites?

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 22 January, 2010 - 14:06

Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham @sunil_abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.

YEN Databank of Youth Employment Initatives in West Africa launched!

Submitted by pasipanodyat@un.org on 28 April, 2009 - 15:50
Dear Colleagues, 
 
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Youth Employment in West Africa Databank on YEN’s website - www.ilo.org/yen. Our databank provides detailed information on over 300 organizations and the 450 projects they are implementing to tackle youth employment across West Africa. 

Turning on the social networking on kabissa.org

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 16 February, 2008 - 07:03

I remember once writing a post called Turning on the social networking on my personal blog - that was last year when I was learning about blogging and was very excited to learn about the power of social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us, digg.com and their very popular African equivalent muti.co.za. These tools can be extremely useful to learn about important events in Africa and around the world, and to help spread the word about initiatives, campaigns and organizations that you believe in and support.

Now, almost exactly a year later, we are bringing social networking to the Kabissa community! At the bottom of this and every blog post on kabissa.org you will see bookmarking links, enabling you to share blog posts you see here with others. We all have our preferences (I like muti and delicious personally) so if you don't see your favorite social bookmarking site here let us know and we will add it.

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