ArabDev’s mission is to improve the livelihood of poor people in the Arab region by promoting sustainable community development through the use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools and skills that incorporate the local culture and language.

1. Skills Development Training of unemployed youth, women and men focusing on IT, to enhance people’s skills in their local marketplace and to build the capacity of local grassroots organizations to fight poverty and social inequity.
2. Dissemination of developmental information on a national and regional basis to provide access to useful information, share ideas and objectives across region, and allow diverse experiences and lessons learned to be known and applied by a wider group of people working for sustainable community development.
3. Creation of linkages between NGOs, that help bridge the communication gap between grassroots organisations and promote collaboration for more successful developmental work.
4. Supporting developmental advocacy through the use of ICT.

Topic areas of expertise:

• Accessibility,
• Free software,
• Gender & ICTs,
• ICT for development,
• ICT policy,
• Training & ICTs

Contact

168 El-Sudan St.
Mohandeseen
12411 Giza
Egypt
Tel: (202) 3046032/3/4
Fax: (202) 3046033/4
info@arabdev.org
www.arabdev.org

Ungana-Afrika is addressing the technology capacity crisis by building innovative support programs and tools that are empowering the development community. Ungana-Afrika’s three service areas provide a wide range of technology support, capacity-building and program development across several levels within and outside of Africa.

Our current focus areas are related to the incubation of ICT support programs, establishing and supporting a network of rural ICT entrepreneurs in rural areas to provide commercial technology support services to their local community, and the adoption of the mobile technologies within the development community.

Topic areas of expertise:

• Access to information,
• Accessibility,
• Free software,
• ICT for development,
• Low-cost technology,
• Media & ICTs,
• Open access,
• Strategic use of the internet,
• Training & ICTs,
• Wireless technology

Contact

Postal address:
P.O. Box 43
Mark Shuttleworth Street
The Innovation Hub
0087 Pretoria
South Africa

Office address:
Office 32 (1st Floor)
Innovation Centre
6 Mark Shuttleworth Street
The Innovation Hub
0087 Pretoria
South Africa

Phone:
+27 (0)877 500888

Fax:
+27 (0)12 349 9327

Inquiries email:
info@ungana-afrika.org

Web:
www.ungana-afrika.org

Metamorphosis Foundation is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit foundation based in Skopje, Macedonia. Its main goals are development of democracy and prosperity by promoting knowledge-based economy and information society.
Main activities of the organization include: lobbying and advocacy in order to make the social and legal environment more conducive to ICT development; educational and informative efforts, including basic and advanced training, and rising of public awareness; and providing concrete ICT solutions to social and developmental challenges.

Topic areas of expertise:

• Access to information,
• Accessibility,
• Cultural & linguistic diversity,
• Free software,
• ICT policy,
• Internet governance,
• Open access,
• Security & privacy,
• Strategic use of the internet,
• Training & ICTs

Contact

Apostol Guslarot 40
1000 Skopje

Republic of Macedonia

Tel: +389 2 3109 325
Fax: +389 2 3225 206

info@metamorphosis.org.mk
www.metamorphosis.org.mk

Women’sNet works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by providing training and facilitating content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women’s and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use.

Recognising that ICTs are a gendered tool, Women’sNet seeks to address gender imbalances in the access and meaningful use of ICTs through research and advocacy for gender aware ICT programmes and policies at all levels of society. Women’sNet builds women’s organisational capacity to use technology strategically to find the people, resources, tools and content they need for social action.

Topic areas of expertise:

• Access to information,
• Accessibility,
• Gender & ICTs,
• Human rights & ICTs,
• ICT for development,
• ICT policy,
• Low-cost technology,
• Open access,
• Strategic use of the internet,
• Training & ICTs

Contact

31 Quinn Street
Newtown, Johannesburg, 2001

P O Box 62577
Marshalltown, 2107

Tel: +27 (0)82 330 4113, +27 (0)11 429-0000/1
Fax: +27 (0)11 838-9871

women@womensnet.org.za
www.womensnet.org.za