Dear friends and colleagues, Below you will find an announcement of a new project that Kabissa started this month. Please share it widely to colleagues, networks and rights groups that you think might be interested. Contact us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you need more information and would like to be kept informed of the project as it progresses.
Best wishes, Tobias Eigen Executive Director, Kabissa -- Tobias Eigen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kabissa - Space for change in Africa http://www.kabissa.org ---------------------------------------------------------- KABISSA LAUNCHES CAPACITY-BUILDING PROJECT IN WEST AFRICA Washington, DC - November 13, 2002 Kabissa has been commissioned by GTZ, the German corporation for international cooperation, to develop learning materials to enable non-profit organizations to use the Internet more effectively in their work. The project, "Time to Get Online: Simple Steps to Success on the Internet", will initially target organizations in West Africa whose main agenda concerns human rights, freedom of information, responsive government and democratization. These learning materials will be developed over the next three months and then piloted in workshops with Nigerian rights groups in February 2003. After the successful completion of the pilot phase, Kabissa will be distributing the materials throughout West Africa through a combination of electronic copies made available through the Kabissa website and hard copies available through partner organizations and on-site workshops. This project was initially developed out of Kabissa's experiences with its members and other organizations in the African non-profit sector. We have found that many organizations are still unaware of the power of the Internet for the non-profit sector, while others remain frustrated by a lack of skills to take advantage of the technology. This project seeks to address these barriers by providing organizations with learning materials and the opportunity to attend capacity-building workshops that focus on building the awareness and skills necessary to use the Internet effectively. The learning materials will allow organizations to work at their own pace through the stages of Internet usage, from the basics of getting connected to the Internet all the way to using the Internet actively as an advocacy tool. The on-site workshops will give these organizations the opportunity to ask questions and interact with an Internet expert, while at the same time providing Kabissa with an effective distribution channel for the materials and a platform to collect feedback. Through the completion of this project, Kabissa and its local partners in West Africa will be able to distribute more than 3,000 copies of the learning materials and reach more than 1,000 organizations through capacity-building workshops. Each of these organizations will in turn be able to make a better and deeper impact on the lives of people in their community, ultimately reaching tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of people throughout the region. ABOUT KABISSA - SPACE FOR CHANGE IN AFRICA Founded in 1999, Kabissa is a non-profit organization that seeks to use technology to strengthen organizations working to improve the lives of people in Africa. Our programs focus on providing Internet services, building the capacity of organizations to use technology, and promoting interaction within the African non-profit sector. Today, more than 450 organizations from 32 countries take advantage of Kabissa's services. For more information and to get involved, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
