MGEF Providing Economic Independence for Maasai Women
Submitted by Barbara Lee Shaw on 28 May, 2009 - 13:57.
The Maasai Girls Education Fund is dedicated to educating Maasai girls and providing each and every one of our students with the knowledge and skills to get a job in Kenya. In this way, we are empowering Maasai women to end early marriages of girls and develop alternative rites of passage into womanhood, to reduce poverty and all of its consequences in their communities, and to become all that they dream to be.
Kabissa champions Ipeace project at Netsquared conference next week
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 22 May, 2009 - 22:11.I have been invited to return to Netsquared as champion for Ipeace, a featured project of the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge. The innovative project is described as follows:
Ipeace, is a safety open source mobile telephony platform and Web 2.0 platform to allow journalist, human rights activist, scientist and people to expose war crimes and human rights violation in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ipeace open-source mobile telephony platform will uses J2ME code that can run on a wide range of java-enable phones.
It will include different options (Video, Camera, SMS, MMS, GPS, GIS) to collect information, alerts and spread those information world wide.
I am excited to meet the people behind the project, Narcisse Mbunzama Lokwa and Dueme Patrick Safi, and to learn more about the Ipeace project. I am particular intrigued to find out how the creators intend to very quickly implement such a challenging set of features on a limiting platform (mobile phones) and all of this in a way that is anonymous and secure. The need is great for such functionality, and not just in the Democratic Republic of Congo!
Last time I was there was for N2Y2 together with Kim Lowery, presenting our own Kabissa 2.0: Strengthening the Social Web in Africa project which was featured that year. Reviewing Erik's blog post about it, I am reminded that I still think it's well worth doing even two years later!
It will be interesting also to spend more time with innovative friends at the event, including Mary Joyce of DigiActive and Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS. Indeed, it's great that 3 of the 10 finalist projects are based on FrontlineSMS. If you are coming, please let me know @kabissa!
Follow Kabissa at http://twitter.com/kabissa
Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 22 May, 2009 - 21:22.
Kabissa has joined the growing community of social enterprises, activists and innovators in Africa and around the world who are using Twitter to keep in closer contact, share information and deepen personal connections using SMS and the web.
What is Twitter, then? It is "a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" It is more than that. Erik Hersman, who blogs at WhiteAfrican.com, describes it this way:
Twitter represents a change in communication. By acting as a global gateway for updates via SMS (or the web), that then updates all of your followers, Twitter succeeded in breaking ground in one-to-many messaging.
If you are using Twitter, you can now follow Kabissa at http://twitter.com/kabissa ...and let us also follow you!
Below is a helpful introductory video that covers all the Twitter basics:
Mogadishu is war zone area, prominent journalist shot dead to day
Submitted by sojra on 22 May, 2009 - 06:28.
EDO STATE POLITICS AND HON. CHIEF ELIZABETH ATIVIE.....WHAT A SACRIFICE
Submitted by Oniovokukor on 14 May, 2009 - 19:54.Kabissa Gong Gong May 2009
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THERE CAN’T BE FREE,FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTION UNDER IWU IN NIGERIA
Submitted by APY on 11 May, 2009 - 15:41.Just as the crisis surrounding the recently concluded rerun election in Ekiti state, is Settling down the chairman of the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) has been described as biased in handling of elections in the country and that a free, fair and credible election can not be conducted by INEC under him
Mogadishu is under fighting and violence, Three Somali journalists wounded at press conference place in Mogadishu
Submitted by sojra on 10 May, 2009 - 19:45.
Draft Brief to Parliamentary Health Committee:Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Submitted by Mindkenya on 10 May, 2009 - 10:02.BasicNeeds UK Kenya and MindFreedom Kenya are non-governmental organizations working to advance the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities.
Lack of a mental health policy in Kenya, hinders implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Kenya has signed and ratified the convention and is under obligation to
review existing mental health policies and legislation's that violate
the rights of persons with mental health disabilities.
