Full coverage: Africa

20.12.2006 The UN will hold an inter-agency meet on communication for development at Addis Ababa on 12-14 February, 2007 to develop a UN-based common approach to C4D in the context of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The meet will be hosted by UNESCO.

15.12.2006 The World Social Forum (WSF) has come a long way from its modest origins in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. In January 2007 Nairobi, Kenya, which will host the 7th edition of the WSF, will bring the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and others desend on the continent from across the world.

12.12.2006 Trade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala take an indepth look into the prevailing market trends and consumer behaviour.

08.12.2006 In Douala, Cameroon, last month the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), Europe’s largest dispute resolution body, delivered a three-day Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution to 32 lawyers and barristers, representing eight African countries from the Telecommunications sector.

08.12.2006 African organisation Fahamu has called for expression of interest from organisations using mobile phone technologies for social justice work in Africa. This is also applicable to those who plan to use the mobile phone for human rights work in the continent.

06.12.2006 Social Web? What's that? Sometimes Mimi likes to push the envelope, and to encourage her gentle readers to sit back and reflect on the latest advances in technology that are now - or soon will be - affecting African civil society. The social web, also called Web 2.0 by trendsetters, represents a new era of the Internet in which people no longer go on the web expecting to merely access information provided by others. Everyone can now comment on what they read, change it, rate it, and put up information of their own - all using new user-friendly web interfaces. Read more...