civil society & ICT

23.06.2004 The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) tries to engage young Canadians into political process through building an interactive portal http://www.rantroom.ca.

23.06.2004 Responding to the demands of past Time to Get Online workshop participants, Kabissa launches a new Training-of-Trainers program for West African civil society organizations in August. The Time to Get Online curriculum combines self-learning materials and hands-on workshops to help African civil society organizations to build capacity through internet-based information sharing and advocacy initiatives. The Training-of-Trainers model enables us to have an even greater impact on civil society organizations throughout the region by creating a network of ICT training partners empowered to deliver this curriculum in their own communities.

11.06.2004 When debates in the British parliament generate public comments in an interactive website like www.theyworkforyou.com, chances of an informed pro-public policy making become greater. Yet another example of bringing common public goods to citizens, this uses open source applications.

10.06.2004 Thousands of disadvantaged Palestine youth in the West Bank and Ramallah use information technologies in local computer centres built under a project of the International Youth Foundation. The project called IT4Youth aims to increase learning outcomes and their employability.

09.06.2004 Satellite generated images can now be used by international agencies and non-governmental organisations for their peace-building, conflict-resolution, humanitarian assistance or any other developmental efforts. This initiative has been led by a consortium of various development and space agencies, including the UN.

08.06.2004 The first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society held in December 2003 witnessed an illustrious dialogue among various stakeholders. This book captures those glittering moments in texts and images to keep your memory alive.

08.06.2004 The International Institute of Communication and Development highlights some key problems schools in Zambia face in providing ICT services to its communities. The workshop discussions give a first hand account of the problems school authorities face in sustaining the services.

04.06.2004 Creating a 'Digital Solidarity Fund' is imperative for capacity building of the societies to make efforts to bridge the digital divide, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told participants at e-Nigeria 2004, held in Abuja recently. He stressed the need of prioritising WSIS plan of action in developmental efforts in the West Africa.

03.06.2004 Women of the Uganda Network (WOUGNET) participated in the Open Knowledge Network workshop held recently in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop focused on building a network for content creation and ICT for development activities in East Africa.

02.06.2004 The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) have forged a partnership on the latter's redesigned Programme for
Development and Training (PDT), an ambitious capacity building programme to tap the potential of ICTs in meeting the development goals.

02.06.2004 There is a clear distinction between commercially run internet cafes and info-kiosks aimed at providing information services to the underserved populace. This report focuses on the sustainability issues of this model of telecentres with case studies from different regions.