*2005 Dirk Award Winner: Ungana-Afrika!*
The Dirk Award Committee is honored to announce Ungana-Afrika as this
year's winner of the Dirk Award.
The Dirk Award is given annually to those circuit or eRiders who have
shown extraordinary contributions to the nonprofit and international NGO
technology communities while paying tribute to the principles of social
justice and the role technology can play in empowering other communities
and individuals.
Ungana-Afrika provides innovative technology support to NGOs in Southern
Africa. Ungana-Afrika believes that information and communication
technologies (ICTs) offer new opportunities for African community-based
and development organizations to do what they do better.
With its emphasis on technology, social justice, and community
empowerment, the small staff of Ungana-Afrika has taken the principles
of eRiding to innovative new levels with its trainings and
capacity-building workshops and innovative projects such as those
focusing on community radio and free and open source software within an
African context.
Ungana-Afrika further works tirelessly to assure that the eRiding model
takes hold in the Southern Africa region by working with other
organizations in the region on developing their own eRiding projects. It
makes its learnings and materials widely available under Creative
Commons license and its staff are active community participants in the
international eRider Network. The organisation is supported by the Soros
Foundations Network and the Government of Finland.
eRiders are one of the largest global resources of ICT capacity building
for development organizations and work in a world-wide movement with
growing representation in more than 20 countries.
The Committee of previous Dirk Award recipients and the global eRider
and nonprofit technology support community congratulate Ungana-Afrika
and its staff Toni Eliasz, Ryan Jacobs, Angel Kgokolo, Tshepo Thlaku,
and Rudi von Staden for visionary and exemplary work!
For more information about Ungana-Afrika, please visit www.ungana-afrika.org
More information about the Dirk Award for eRiders is at www.dirkaward.org.
With best regards on behalf of the Dirk Award Committee,
Katrin Verclas
Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World
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