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CECS is the oldest computer training non-governmental organisation in South Africa, established in April 1985 for the technological empowerment of the historically disadvantaged. CECS establishes and maintains non-profit computer training facilities to service community information and communications technology (ICT) developmental needs, by building computer skills and capacity, especially among the historically disadvantaged, as well as engaging in policy making and research. The objectives ...
Day by Day Schedule 31 Jan or morning of 1 Feb: Arrive Johannesburg if only attending staff meeting 1 Feb: Depart to Ithala Executive Board and Staff meetings Feb 2nd to 4th 2 Feb: EB meeting with parallel Programme meetings 3 Feb: First session of APC action planning 2008-12 with staff and board 4 Feb: APC action planning 2008-12 with staff and board (EB and staff work together until 2pm, EB a...
Previous to the staff meeting severel other meetings are organised for teams and partners to work together face to face. Day by day schedule 29 Jan to 31 Jan: Information content planning meeting (Adolfo) 29 Jan: Arrive Joburg if participating in WNSP feminist tech camp meeting 29-30 Jan: CICEWA planning meeting (willie) 30-31 Jan: WNSP Feminist Tech Camp meeting (jenny) 30 Jan: Arrive Joburg i...
This paper was commissioned by the APC as part of the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa initiative and to contribute to APC’s efforts to promote open access to ICT infrastructure in Africa. According to the author, Mike Jensen, a variety of factors is responsible for the lack of acess to bandwith in Africa, but the biggest cause is the high cost of international connections to the globa...
This paper, by Kate Wild, was commissioned by the APC as part of the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) initiative. It looks at the meaning and importance of convergence and considers some of the challenges to implementing it, along with strategies for overcoming them. It also provides a global perspective on regulating convergence and broadband from ITU and then looks at experiences i...
GRACE is a group of 14 research teams working in 12 African countries focusing on Gender Research in Africa into ICT’s for Empowerment, supported by a research grant from the International Development Research Centre of Canada. This research project was completed in be completed in 2008. Read the full update.
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