practical toolkits

Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software.

Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software.

Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software.

‘Best Practices for the Web’ by University of Utah provides website designers useful guidelines to follow while creating web pages.

The latest materials on ICT, including topics ranging from policy to gender and advocacy journalism, can be found in the multimedia training kit for the staff of Unesco’s community multimedia centres.

UNESCO’s WINISIS software is one of the most popular for storage and retrieval of information in Zambia. More than 500 librarians, records officers and IT managers in the country are using WINISIS after undergoing training.

This video explores the uses of handicams and new communication technologies by human right activists, war crime investigators, right-wing videographers and citizens. The video answers questions about what happens when front-line advocates document what they are seeing.

This guide provides practical advice on how to set up, start, maintain or join an email list. Email has become commonly used; however, in parts of the world where there are fewer experienced users, this guidebook should be useful in the basic information it provides on how to use Internet-based technology.

Kabissa has come out with an updated version of its highly successful ‘Time to Get Online’ self-learning materials for African civil society organisations. The materials help civil society activists and organisers to get online, learn the essential steps to success on the Internet and to integrate the Internet into their work. The toolkit is available online for free download and in print and CD-ROM version at a nominal cost.

The Asia Pacific Regional Technology Centre is organising a distance learning course to improve “digital literacy” of agricultural professionals. Designed to teach the professionals in the Asia Pacific how to take advantage of resources available through the Internet, it will be offered between September 15 and October 24, 2003. Scholarships are also available.