Partner News

21.04.2008 HODI a non profit NGO has trained 12 village reporters in Choma and Kalomo Districts in Southern Zambia with a view of eliminating child labour in tobacco growing.

11.04.2008 The Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing (ECLT) project is premised on three major strategies namely prevention, withdrawal and integration. Activities under the prevention strategy include the sensitization of target community groups (i.e. children, parents, teachers and traditional leaders) on the child labour problem. The key message for the project is that, by working in tobacco fields, most of these children are denied the opportunity of being in school.

07.04.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

02.04.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

21.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

19.03.2008 BROSDI uses a multistakeholder approach by engaging government, private sector and civil society in knowledge sharing as a means of rural development. This is through using ICT methods, inclusive of online social networking applications and participatory methods

14.03.2008 On Wednesday,Zambians commemorated “Youth Day”, a programme that falls on the 12 of March every year. The event in the capital city,Lusaka was held at the freedom statue in Kamwala where thousands of youths came to witness activities planned for the day. President Levy Mwanawasa in his key note address said youth of Zambia, represented more than half of the population and thus constitute a vital and vibrant human resource.

04.03.2008 The Workplace HIV and AIDS Policy Manual was developed to support resource persons working with companies, Ministries, agencies and organisations in Zambia. It may be freely used, reviewed, quoted, reproduced, translated or distributed, in part or in full, provided the source is acknowledged. The document may not be used for commercial purposes or for profit

26.02.2008 The Chipata District Women’s Association in Zambia's Eastern Province is a community group set up by women to help them improve their livelihood. The association provides support to women in learning new skills, improving their capacity to earn more income and live healthier lives.

21.02.2008 The Sinazongwe District Development Committee in Southern Zambia has opened up an advocacy centre for its community. The advocacy centre based at Malima will provide services to over two thousand people from the area and will be used to access various ICTs.

18.02.2008 The Chipata District Women’s Association, a community group set up by women to help them improve their livelihood. The association provides support to women in learning new skills, improving their capacity to earn more income and live healthier lives using mobile phones.It is made up of 12 area associations located in remote areas.

14.02.2008 CEEWA-U has developed an ICT Project to bridge the information gap between information sources, institutions with information and the end users. The Project facilitates linkages with the women at the grass root level and assists in establishing the impact of government policies and programmes and how the use and application of ICTs create an avenue for bridging the information gap.

07.02.2008 The main objective of the project is to enable rural women entrepreneurs and women organizations that promote enterprise development to explore ways and means of exploiting ICTs for community economic empowerment.

Vision is a woman who is economically empowered and able to access and apply ICT’s to promote her enterprise. The focus of the project is on building capacity of grass root women to access and utilize ICTs for enterprise development.

05.02.2008 Changing an economy through introducing ICT is akin to trying to set up a whole row of spinning plates. Without infrastructure, you can’t get media, services and applications. Without media, services and applications, you can’t get critical mass. Without critical mass, there’s no-one to e-mail or exchange videos with, so why bother? And that’s before you get on to all the “nice things” that might happen if African governments delivered their services better.

29.01.2008 Rural women in KwaZulu Natal will be using mobile phones to report on violations of their human rights. The UmNyango Project, which is implementing this initiative, was established by Fahamu, a pan African organisation based in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar and Oxford

25.01.2008 AZUR Development and the Reseau Sida Afrique based in Congo which includes 230 institutional and individual members in 17 African francophone countries. The project aims to set up a media campaign and system of alert on malaria and the creation of a partnership between the press and member organizations of the Africa AIDS Network in 10 countries, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Mali, Togo, Ivory Coast, Niger, Djibouti, Cameroon, and Benin.

21.01.2008 One of the main problems facing government and its partners today is that they are often running blind: many of today’s computer systems are discrete islands of information that exist in isolation and do not communicate with each other.

17.01.2008 After realising that while significant efforts were made by the government of Uganda and the Non government organisations (NGOs) to disseminate information on a range of issues to promote sustainable development for all, a lot still needs to be done. Most of this information particularly relating to women’s’ economic empowerment is not readily accessible

16.01.2008 'If ICTs are to provide equitable distribution of wealth of knowledge, they must also support the languages and cultures of our global society,' the Global Knowledge Partnership, an international network that promotes ICT use for development, said in an international conference it hosted recently in Malaysia

11.01.2008 The Awards were organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD).

Aida Opoku-Mensah, Director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division of UNECA, who said that the AISI Media Awards were introduced in 2003 to encourage more informed coverage of the information society and ICT for development issues in Africa as part of UNECA's Information Society Outreach and Communication Programme, announced the winners of the eight award categories.