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Vacancy for Field Officers positions :FADECO Community Radio, Tanzania

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Field officers advert- FADECO KARAGWE TANZANIA is a local media house in Tanzania, combining the services of a rural information tele-centre and modern/ traditional ICTs to catapult the speed of rural development. FADECO Radio is involved in dissemination of information for Development (ICT4D) in rural Tanzania and has as its core objective: local content generation, [...]

Women Pulling Out of the Technological Gap

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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When she gets up in the morning, Ghadeer Malek, a young Palestinian feminist activist, checks her Facebook page to keep up on new developments and messages linked to her work. Her daily routine illustrates a growing trend among young women, who are turning more and more to the latest technological tools, although that use is [...]

South Africa: Privacy and domestic violence online and off

Friday, September 3, 2010

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JOHANNESBURG (Esther Nasikye and Sally-Jean Shackleton for GenderIT.org) While women’s rights activists have been at the forefront of making the private crimes that occur at home – domestic violence, marital rape – public, new technologies are making the private public in ways that disenfranchise, alienate and violate women. ChangeWaves’Esther Nasikye and Sally-Jean Shackleton (WomensNet) explore [...]

A freaky welcome to South Africa

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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First was a loud cry. Then a gun shot that was followed by desperate screams that seemed from a woman begging for mercy but in a language I don’t understand. Time check, 4:10 am. The voices of the men then grew louder and louder also speaking a language I don’t understand. Just then, I remembered, [...]

Funding Opportunity for Prevention of Gender-based violence

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Funding opportunity for Prevention of Gender-based violence projects Deadline: 1 July 2010 Global The US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) is requesting proposals from organizations to implement projects on prevention of gender-based violence…[more] Freedom to Create Prize Deadline: 15 August 2010 All Countries Individuals from any part of the world or [...]

Researching Internet: Where to Start & New Ideas

Monday, March 29, 2010

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This is an informative piece that I thought I could share with people interested in ICT4D and telecentres for that matter. It is a piece posted by Sienna Miller to the Youthink blog on the World Bank website. Sienna has been doing research on traditional telecenter sustainability. She makes some interesting observations. I have spent [...]

ICTs linking local women to the global agenda

Friday, March 12, 2010

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“Patriarchy defines leadership from the perspective of public office but not a woman running 25 support groups in the village,” explained Nyaradzayi Gumbodzvanda in session she presented about patriarchy during day one of the Global NGO Forum in New York. I have met many women in Uganda who are doing amazing work in their villages, [...]

The invention of lying

Friday, March 12, 2010

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It is February 26. I am on a seven hour flight from London to New York and I have been reading for the past couple of hours. I decide to catch up on the news. In the headlines: “Mother and step father starve 8 year old to death: Wayne Bridge opts out of England World [...]

Here is a brand new 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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As we slide/ bounce/ stagger (pick your choice!) or even merely enter or stumble upon AD 2010, a decade of the 21st century is already behind us. How special the beginning of the Second Millennium sounded, and seemed, at the time! I was hardly in University. The world was as it should be as it [...]

CSO Research training in Addis Ababa ends on a high note

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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The 12 day intense research training to 17 participants from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan ended on a high note last Friday at the Christian Relief and Development Agency (CRDA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Divided into five groups, the participants had to demonstrate what they had learnt over the two weeks. The results [...]