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Effective Civic Participation in Development and Democratic Governance is the common vision that was zeroed in from the shared understanding of the over 230 delegates from

the Southern Africa Region and fraternal organisation from other regions of Africa and Europe who participated in the 3rd SADC-CNGO conference in Lusaka, Zambia.

Through this scenario, it is envisioned that the region would be mobilized to act, through consensus building, respect, and social justice to bring forth a better future for all. This is premised on the broad underpinning philosophy of people centered development, partnerships and broad based participation, leading to ‘people centred dialogue’.

Addressing the delegates, Secretary General of the SADC Council of NGOs, Abie Ditlhake said that the role of the Civil Society should include acting as “watchdogs” for transparency and accountability by the governments in the SADC; being more proactive in conflict resolution and in promoting harmonious relations in communities. “Communities and civil society should be more active in promoting good governance including greater community participation; the community must be able in turn to advocate for their own causes; should develop stronger partnerships and networks; and must work at

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the strengthening of Democratic Governance”, Ditlhake said.

Ditlhake highlighted the need to take SADC to the communities by coming up with interventions that would permit the participation of the communities in all facets of the development dialogue. He urged the players in the region about the need to establish a permanent mechanism to move from talk to action.

Ditlhake said it was depressing that the region was witnessing a worrying trend where governments treated it’s people as ‘security danger’. He said this in turn breeds government leaders that develop particularly draconian and repressive legislation that

The information revolution of the 21st century

presents a tremendous opportunity for development in the south. For one thing, ICT can greatly facilitate the

flow, dissemination and appropriation of information and knowledge. This was highlighted during the meeting organized by OneWorld Africa(OWA) to share IT experiences and challenges

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with its partners from OneWorld South Asia(OWSA). A two man delegation from OneWorld South Asia visited OneWorld Africa in July 2007 to share experiences in the ICT for development sector. The visitors from OWSA comprised the Director Naimur Rahman (in picture) and Senior Web Developer, Kedar Dash.

The meeting enabled OWSA to share experiences with OWA, on a one-to-one basis, in coming up with user friendly

sites that will enable effective information sharing in the south considering the low bandwidth. The team highlighted the need of coming up with cost-effective information management systems that will meet the current trends in the use of new media technologies. The meeting looked at concepts on how the internet can contribute to effective development strategies and how it can increase the role in giving a voice to grassroot communities in the two regions both at local and global level.

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OWA Opens Doors InMali and Mozambique

OneWorld Africa has expanded its activities in Mali and Mozambique by creating formal

agreements with local ICT for Development players in the two countries. This is envisioned in OWA’s plan to reach many communities in Africa. The trip to Mali was undertaken by OWA

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Executive Director Priscilla Jere while the mission to Mozambique was done by OWA Programmes Manager Gay Nyakwende.

In Mali OWA has partnered with JAMANA of Mali to foster the progression of ICTs to the grassroots. JAMANA is a community information project based in Bamako. It supports 8 community radio stations and other community newspapers.

In Mozambique OWA had meetings with the Christian Council of Churches – Zambezi, Afri-care, for Research and Public Relations (CERPRE) and other media players

Access to ICTs is still a distant reality for the vast majority of people in Africa particularly rural populations who have been left out of the information revolution. In many of these countries there is a lack of basic infrastructure, resulting in high costs for installing and running ICTs. Unfamiliarity with ICTs and the dominance of the English language on the Internet, together with a perceived lack of demonstrated benefit from ICTs to address local level challenges are key factors that OWA sought to find solutions to in the said venture.

Such barriers pose even greater problems for rural communities who are less likely to be literate or to speak English. OWA seeks to give a solution by providing an array of ICTs that can still be used despite the language barrier in most communities. Grass root communities in Africa are further marginalised from the information sector as a result of cultural restrictions, less economic power and the lack of relevance of most content on in the public sphere.

Despite the numerous challenges to equity in the ICT arena, OWA in its IT access programme area sees ICTs as tools for social transformation equality by which the communities can use ICTs to directly accessing markets by using an array of ICTs.Other development players have used the radio by using the Development Through Radio concept to communicate development related information to their communities.

Some communities have been given skills by OWA to develop newsletters in their own languages to communicate, resulting in increased collaboration to lobby and advocate items contained on the community development agenda.

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curtail civic participation, freedom of expression and the right to exist.

And speaking in an exclusive interview Zambian Chapter Civil Society for Poverty Programme Officer for Information and Networking Ivy Mutwale highlighted that the challenge that lies is not only to maintain but to re-create the democratic ways of working, in order that they may be adapted to changing political, social and economic contexts. She added that democratic reforms must take into account the new realities of the information society as well.

Mutwale said that ICTs increase the transparency and accountability of governmental bodies. She added that the two factors are important to democracy because they provide a platform that put checks and balances to see to it that governments and its institutions are working in the interests of its people. She added that ICTs create avenues that allow electorates to manage their interactions with government and get involvement in policy-making

The conference on the use of Web 2.0 for rural development and natural resource management takes place in Rome Italy from 25-27 September 2007.

The Web2forDev 2007 is the first international conference to discuss how new Internet tools commonly known as Web 2.0 can be used to the

advantage of Southern actors to more efficiently network, collaborate and exchange information in the field of rural and agricultural development and natural resource management.

Over 40 speakers have been selected from organisations with various backgrounds from both North and South. Among the listed speakers are representatives from well-known organisations like IBM, Oxfam and UNESCO, but also Southern grass-root organisations who lead the way when it comes to the use of modern technology for development. The Web2forDev Conference will address three topics, the use and impact of: shared virtual spaces for remote collaboration and knowledge sharing, the use of appropriate technologies for online publishing, and online information retrieval and access.

Topics range from talking about the innovative use of blogs and social video sites for language revitalization

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“There should be a distinction between the terms of Citizen Engagement and Engagement with citizens. Democracy is not a gift by governments to citizens. E-engagement projects will not work if they are conceived as methods of recruiting the public to a government-owned agenda. E-engagement should not be evaluated in terms of how successfully governments win the attention of citizens, rather, how successful are e-engagement methods in enabling citizens to win the attention of their elected representatives and officials”, Mutwale said. Mutwale said with time, participation will be more and more passing among borders, and governments will become dependent on the participation of citizens. “The life-styles in the region will begin to change and many people will be less geographically oriented. eParticipation will certainly be not only local or state-wide, but will also become a trans-national one. Universal access and lowering of thresholds to enable citizens’ participation in decision-making and planning is important. Currently, the threshold is still too high and citizens do not understand policy-making processes and the possible impact of decisions. ICTs are necessary to provide insight and to lower the engagement threshold”, she said

by Indigenous communities in Canada through to the deployment of Agricultural Marketing Information Systems being developed to assist farmers in improving and selling their crops in Ghana.’

Jon Corbett, chairperson of the selection panel for the Web2forDev Conference notes that ‘ Apparently there is a high level of interest in using Web 2.0 technologies, not only in the North, but also in the South. Almost all proposals have a strong Southern focus, with a number of notable exceptions from Indigenous groups from Australia and Canada’.

According to Jon Corbett not only are the topics exciting, but also the way the conference programme is built. Jon Corbett: ‘This is a truly interactive conference. Instead of offering presentation after presentation, we will create open spaces and incubator sessions at the Conference; these will allow speakers and participants to build their own agenda and meet to discuss relevant topics and issues. This innovative conference approach encapsulates the overall aim of the conference - to provide a forum to allow experts, users, interested people and development practitioners from both Southern and Northern countries to interact in an informal, though structured, and lively way on issues and technologies which suit their own needs, interests and experiences.’

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In June 2007 OWA attended a meeting in Burkina Faso’s city of Ouagadougou organized by PANOs West Africa where over 50 media experts from the West African region gathered to discuss content issues

often expressed within the radio sector. The meeting highlighted that Radio stations have the potential to play a key role in increasing local participation. It was also agreed in the meeting to come up with a regional platform to share content. It was pointed in the meeting that participation in radio stations is vital for the viability of democracy. For one thing, participation in “one of the many (micro-) spheres relevant to daily life,” it is important because it allows people to learn and adopt democratic attitudes and practices.

The radio sector evolved for the last twenty years in West Africa and plays a crucial role in allowing the majority to participate. From a handful of public and monopolistic radios at the beginning, the numbers of stations, of all kinds are now beyond a thousand, supported by a lot of national and/or regional organisations. While abundant radio content exists in several languages limits are still

A History Teacher at Roma Girls in Zambia’s Capital of Lusaka says effective use of the wide range of facilities offered by ICT opens up unprecedented

opportunities for invigorating learning and teaching in schools and helps in improving pupils’ attainment in subjects across the whole curriculum.

Isaac Lyson Zulu a teacher who has held his profession for 19 years is one of the volunteers under OneWorld Africa’s Education Support Network (EsNet) Project who acknowledges the importance of ICTs in the teaching fraternity. He said he has captured a lot of information as result of detailed research provided by the internet. “Skills in using ICT provide the potential for access to lifelong learning opportunities that can empower all learners to develop their own unique intellectual capacity and operate as effective teachers. In the longer term, the very nature of schools and learning communities is likely to be altered radically by the influence of ICTs”, Zulu said. “In this vein I will suggest how history teachers can be encouraged to make use of ICT in their lessons. The fundamental approach is not backed up by the notion” because they have to”, but rather the infinitely preferable “because of the benefits”. I do not believe there is a single history teacher in the country who is not excited by a new method or approach to teach an issue or topic. If we always consider the implications of history first, and ICT second,

Ouagadougou Meeting Calls for interactive Radiopresents; support organisations usually have only a small role in the production, collection and dissemination of the radio programs. Whatever their quality and relevance, a radio program is seldom exchanged at the national or regional level and secondly, despite the advantages new technologies play in the industry challenges are still evolve around production, management, dissemination and reception of content.

OneWorld Africa shared experiences on its radio platform and how it has been generating and sharing content to its radio members in Africa and beyond. OneWorld Radio Africa and the AIDSChannel.org offer services and networking for broadcasters and civil society organisations that use radio for human rights and sustainable development. The portals aim to be a tool for broadcasters - a place on the internet where they can find radio programmes for exchange and all the information from the sector of radio for development they need - news, funding and training opportunities and manuals. They can also use the platform to network with each other by searching the OneWorld Radio directory of members and sharing information about their activities.

the beneficial use of ICT becomes much clearer. Ask not what history can do for ICT, ask what ICT can do for history”, Zulu added.

He urged history teachers who are keen to use ICT to encourage others by providing rich content that may not be obtained otherwise.

EsNet’s aim is to improve the quality of teaching by improving teacher’s notes, through the use of ICTs. Currently OWA has 40 teachers contributing notes in 8 schools.

EsNet, a project supported by IICD seeks to assist poorly resourced schools by providing learning and professional opportunities for teachers and make available supplementary materials which are appropriate for the context and culture of the affected communities. The project focuses on subjects with national dimension such as, history, geography, environmental science and home economics.

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Pact Zambia has hailed OneWorld Africa for setting an example that needs to be emulated by other players in the A- WATCH project. This was said in Lusaka by Pact

Zambia Country Director Matondo Yeta (in picture). She was speaking during the 2007 ZHLI Innovation Marketplace in Lusaka. World Africa (OWA) in partnership with PACT Zambia rolled out a six month project commencing December 2006 ending in May 2007 in the Northern and Luapula Provinces of Zambia. The project, financially supported by USAID, fed into the PACT Zambia initiated A-Watch programme designed to make the Zambian government more accountable through Policy Analysis and System Strengthening of MP Leadership in HIV/AIDS. The project was implemented in Bahati, Bangweulu, Mansa Central, Nchelenge constituencies in Luapula Province and Lupososhi, Kasama Central, Kanchibiya and Isoka East constituencies in the Northern Province.

Strengthening HIV/AIDS interventions for improved service delivery project is aimed at building and strengthening capacities of eight members of parliament (MPs) including Constituency Liaison Committees (CLCs) civic leaders, local grassroots organizations and communities to understand HIV/AIDS policy related issues in order to demand for better policies that are demand driven especially by people living with AIDS.

OWA achieved this by conducting intensified training in leadership, policy advocacy, networking, resource mobilization, use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the 8 CLCs and MPs included. A total of 436 people were trained in the said period.

The process empowered the CLCs to be useful conduits between MPs and communities in advocating for improved health delivery systems such as voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) and antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination.

This intervention is a result of the realization that MPs have a cardinal role to play in development as they are the mouthpiece of the wider populace. They are the custodians of constitutional reforms and by strengthening their institutions; they will be better positioned to deliver their mandate.

OWA handed out various ICTs to the CLCs. This included computers, megaphones, Community phones and radio sets. All these were provided to make advocacy campaigns easier for the CLCs and also provide some resources in order to sustain the project.

Pact’s Zambia’s mission is to build strong communities that allow people to earn a dignified living, engage in self-help initiatives and participate in democratic life. Among the hallmarks of Pact’s capabilities and work is community mobilization around issues of local importance, capacity-building for organizations based in or focused on local communities, and assistance to NGOs/CBOs in gaining capacity for responsible stewardship and effective deployment of their funds. Pact’s comprehensive approach to development focuses on participation and empowerment strategies, results-based training, creative partnerships and networking.Pact implemented projects in 57 countries around the world. These programs generally entail institutional strengthening, technical assistance and training for national and grassroots organizations, as well as management of grant funds on behalf of donors. Pact maintains field offices in 25 countries: Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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OneWorld Africa has urged the Zambian Government to speed up the process of implementing the National

ICT Policy that was launched in March 2007. Speaking during the stakeholders consultative meeting held in Lusaka recently, OWA Executive Director Priscilla Jere ( in picture) said that ICTs underpin the unprecedented levels of prosperity enjoyed by many countries and as such African Countries like Zambia needed to quickly come up with workable strategies that will bring the Policy into realisation.

She said that players in the industry must provide an impetus and help to monitor the implementation mechanism that will harness the translation of the Policy into tangible results on the ground.

“Our contribution towards this process must ensure that policy implementation strategies speed up at all levels. Information technologies have become a potent force in transforming social, economic and political life globally. If access to and use of information technology is linked to social and economic development, then it is imperative to ensure that Zambians understand the significance of these technologies and use them”, Jere said.

Jere added that much has been said on the state of Africa’s ICT policies, but what ought to be understood is that ICT development will not exist outside social and political framework. She said that if government has no political will to implement the ICT Policy, then access to the majority will not be realized. She challenged the government to quickly adopt the resolutions to be passed by the Civil Society as not doing so would negate development.

Jere further highlighted the fact that ICTs are vital for today’s information society as they affect all aspects of human activities.“ICTs provide organisations and individuals with new ways of doing things for increased communication. It is the vehicle being used worldwide for ensuring a knowledge-based society for effective development. Benefits to be derived from wider application of the ICT are so many that Zambia cannot afford to be left behind by other countries in the implementing facets that will develop this important sector. To compete effectively and successfully in this fiercely competitive global economic environment, Zambia needs to apply ICTs in every day life”, Jere said. “Many governments in both developed and developing countries

have recognised and identified access to ICTs as an important strategy towards the social and economic development of their populations. To achieve the nationwide goal of reducing the digital divide, it is incumbent upon governments to provide frameworks, incentives and enabling environment that will stimulate private sector investment in low-income and high cost areas”, she added.

Jere bemoaned the lack of co-ordination exhibited by the Zambian government. “For Zambia, the current policy guidelines broadly call for government subventions to support universal access and expansion of services to all parts of the country including rural and other underserved areas. Unfortunately, neither a strategy nor mechanisms exist for ensuring that universal access is implemented”, Jere said.

Major challenges still remain in the implementation of the ICT Policy in Zambia. Institutional infrastructure to facilitate a faster rollout of the e-government strategy is limited. The ICT systems that have been so far installed remain disjointed and fragmented and the ICT solutions are generally under-utilised, thus duplication and wastage remain. The lack of ICT standards hinders widespread growth and utilisation of applications. In practical terms, a number of technical, operational, and regulatory prerequisites must be instituted as players begin to institute the e- strategy for Zambia.And E- Brain Zambia National President Lee Muzala called on players in the industry not to relent in providing a “watchdogs” role in the implementation process of the Policy. He called on the players in the industry to provide bench marks that will create a conducive environment for all players to participate in the country. The one day seminar came up with an implementation plan which will be presented to the Zambian government.

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Among the more than one million people malaria kills annually are hundreds of thousands of children. Most are under age five, their immature immune systems failing

to control the aggressive disease. The majority of these children are from the developing world. Almost 90 percent are from sub-Saharan Africa.

Killing children is not all malaria does. Over the course of the past 4,000-plus years, this mosquito-borne disease has slowly insinuated itself into human society. Its effects are both far-reaching and complex. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria threatens approximately 2 billion to 3 billion people, or roughly 40 percent of the world’s population, and inflicts approximately 500 million clinical attacks each year.

These attacks can result in severe complications during pregnancy and lead to maternal death or low infant-birth weight. Data on malaria can be hard to obtain but scientists reckon that the disease reportedly kills 71,000 to 190,000 infants in Africa annually. It can leave victims cognitively disabled. The malaria parasite also interacts with other afflictions, such as HIV and under-nutrition, in ways that are still not well understood.

Economically, malaria drains the wealth of nations and households. Recently WHO reported that malaria costs Africa alone US $12 billion a year. In countries where this disease is endemic, it grinds down the per capita economic growth rate by 1.3 percent yearly. Poor households can spend up to 34 percent of their total income fighting malaria, observed WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund

Village ReportersCombat Malaria Using ICTs(UNICEF).

All of these numbers paint a grim global picture, but what is perhaps most disturbing about these figures is that they have not improved over the last 10 years. In fact, according to WHO and other experts, they have been getting worse. Despite eradication efforts during the 1950s and 1960s, an array of bold targets set at international conferences, and the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) programme with its extensive global partnership, this ancient disease continually finds new ways (such as drug-resistant parasites) to take the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable.

The Zambian government has not holistically involved the community in the fight against Malaria thus losing on the critical mass of local knowledge embedded in communities in combating the disease. This approach has resulted in less appreciation of programmes meant to fight Malaria by the government and other

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OOneWorld Africa recently partnered with Celtel Zambia to equip Chongwe women with ICT tools. Those that witnessed the hand over ceremony include area

Member of Parliament Sylvia T. Masebo, One World International Trustee, Margaret Machila, Celtel representative Bridget, Kambobe, Rushidull Alam, the UNDP representative and the Village Headman, Dr. Patrick Chikusu.

Speaking at the hand over ceremony OneWorld Africa Executive Director Priscilla Jere said that information and communication technologies (ICTs) play an important role in reducing poverty, improving education and healthcare, enhancing political participation and empowerment, and promoting sustainable development. She said that the majority of the rural communities still live in poverty and remain untouched by the benefits of ICTs. “These inequalities in access to and control of ICTs between urban and rural communities limit the potential of an information Society to make the most

valuable contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Without women’s participation in decision-making in all spheres of life and all levels of society, poverty will not be eradicated nor will inclusive information societies emerge”, Jere said.

She said women’s informed participation in the information era within their communities is crucial for the much needed socio-economic transformation, the actualization of the millennium development goals and sustainable development in Africa.

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“OneWorld Africa helps communities through Information Communication Technologies such as phones, computers,

radios and internet facilities that provide opportunities for ordinary people to improve their lives. Through such

assistance, people have gone through the barriers of language and illiteracy. When women are armed with ICTs, they are able

to deal with violence against women”. Jere said.

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key stakeholders. Information has been disseminated to the people without allowing them to take part in the solution formulation process.

Malaria is a significant cause of death and illness in most Zambian communities especially in rural areas yet communities lack affordable technologies that can be used to combat the disease. The high mortality rate as a result of the disease translates into depletion of human resources, decrease productivity through lowered output thereby lowering Zambia’s capacity for development

It is against this background that the Zambia Malaria Foundation in collaboration with One World Africa held a Training workshop for Zambian based village Reporters. The main aim of the workshop was to Train the Community people on how to report on Malaria cases through the use of ICTs such as radio.

Among the trainees, were Radio Producers drawn from Chikaya, Mazabuka and Liseli community radio stations respectively. The rest were drawn from three Zambian Communities; Mongu, Mazabuka and Lundazi respectively. The training gave capacity to the reporters to generate, package and disseminate information designed to combat malaria. The participants also explored various ways they can apply the Development Through Radio (DTR) in their respective communities in combating the disease.

Speaking in an exclusive interview Zambia Malaria Foundation Director Malama Muleba said this was a unique programme that will spread to all parts of the country. He said ICTs play a pivotal role in improving

the health of people in the country. Muleba added that radio was Africa’s traditional ICT and as such is accessed by many people especially in rural area.

“Radio is ideal because it leaps across the language barrier. We want our people to find solutions to issues affecting them. I am glad that our communities will come up with systems that will hold players in check as a result of this intervention”. Muleba said.

Access to Health Centre, availability of drugs in the health centres, availability of qualified health personnel and the availability of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) are some of the issues that will be monitored in the areas where this project is being implemented.

In a related development, the Zambian government revealed that about k2 billion would be spent on the Mass distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets through out the country and these funds came from the World Bank, Malaria control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa.(MECEPA),UNICEF and Total Zambia Limited.

This was said by Zambia’s Minister of Heath Dr. Brian Chituwo. The minister said under the ITN programme, the objective was to ensure that 80 percent of the population in Zambia slept under an ITN. The exercise targets people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans as well as the aged.

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OWARefurbishes Its Training CentreOWA has refurbished its training centre. The new training centre houses 15 computers and other IT related tools. The centre will be used to provide capacity building to partners in various ICT related subjects.

The centre has already been used to train the Tigwilizane Women’s Group from Lusaka’s Chongwe area in basic office production skills using OpenOffice.org, a cheap alternative to expensive

proprietary software.

The group has since opened a Tele - Centre which the women are managing and also able to generate some income using computer equipment donated by OWA in conjunction with Celtel.

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Dr Kenneth Kaunda during the partnership meeting Dr Stella Anyangwe during the World AIDS day

Hon. Sylvia Masebo in Chongwe Isoka East CLC meeting

National ICT implementation strategy meeting Dr Chituwo and OWA Director at Innovations day

OneWorld radio members OWA Director chating with Rushidull Alam

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OWA Programmes Manager with Hon. Namugala Grassroot women being trained at OWA training centre

Malama Muleba at Mazabuka Community Radio Village reporters in a training session

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Zimbabwean President Signs Spying Bill Into Law

President Robert Mugabe has signed the Interception of Communications Bill into law. The Chief Secretary

to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda announced this in a general notice issued in the Government

Gazette of 3 August 20 The Act will make lawful the interception and monitoring of communications in the

course of their transmission through a telecommunications, postal or any other related service or system in

Zimbabwe. The Act also provides for the establishment of a monitoring centre.

An interception warrant, to be issued by the Minister of Transport and Communications maybe applied

for by the Chief of Defence Intelligence, the Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation, the

Commissioner of Police, and the Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority or any of their

nominees.

Service providers, among them Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are required to install systems that are

“technically capable of supporting lawful interception at all times.” ISPs will not have long to comply with

this law as the Act clearly states that regulations to this effect will be issued within two months of the

commencement of this Act.

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Zimbabwe Chairperson Loughty Dube expressed dismay at

the promulgation of this Act calling it yet another sad day for Zimbabweans.

“It is indeed a very sad day for Zimbabweans who for a long time now have had their right to freedom of

expression being taken for granted. The government has refused to open the airwaves, closed newspapers

and as if that is not enough it now wants to pry into people’s conversations. This is simply an indication of a

government that is afraid of its own citizens. And when a government becomes afraid of its own citizens, it

becomes a danger upon those citizens. As Zimbabweans we do not deserve such laws. We will certainly ask

our legal department to look into the possibilities of mounting a constitutional challenge against this law in

the Supreme Court,” Dube said.

What remains now is the publication of a statutory instrument that will advise when the law will become

operational in terms of the laws of Zimbabwe. Source: MISA

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Prisoners Get ComputersUganda’s biggest jail house, Luzira Maximum Security Prison recently received a boost that shall further promote ICT use among its

incarcerated residents.Out side the prison walls, the five IBM compatible computers from telecommunications firm, Uganda telecom could seem ordinary but

not to the jailers who look at them as another vital tool for providing functional adult literacy and formal education.

“This is a landmark achievement in the prisons service,” the commissioner general of the Uganda Prisons Service, Dr. Johnson

Byabashaija said in a brief ceremony at their city centre head office.

Accompanied by other senior jailers who evidently looked elated at the donation, Dr. Byabashaija said that the prison service was going

further into post secondary education in the near future.Often ignored and poorly funded in comparison to other government ministries and institutions, the maximum upper prison with over

2,400 inmates only boasted of two computers and three laptops before the uganda telecom intervention.

Statistics from the prisons authority show that only three out of every 10 prisoners who go through formal education at the jail houses

are usually re- imprisoned after joining ordinary society.Computer classes at the prison, located about six kilometres east of the city centre commenced at the beginning of the year with

candidate classes in the three categories of Uganda’s formal education. For starters, the computers are being used to teach Microsoft

Office and various internet packages.Source: allafrica

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NewsAroundAfricaITU Commends Tunisia

According to the 2007 report of the International

Telecommunications’ Union (ITU) related to the

World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)

which was released recently, Tunisia achieved a

considerable progress in the field of information

technologies.

Thus, Tunisia was the first African and Arab country

to have been connected to the internet in 1991

and has the second largest online penetration on

the continent.While the growth of fixed telephone

lines experienced a decline, the mobile telephone

witnessed a nationwide upsurge following the

granting of a second license to ORASCOM-Telecom

(Tunisiana) in 2002.

Moreover, the mobile network covers practically

all the population thanks to the introduction of

a second telecommunication company in the

market, which led to an important rise in the

number of mobile telephone users that reached

64%.

The report also stresses that the various initiatives

taken by the government seek to democratize

access to ICTs. Currently, Tunisian government

is working, in cooperation with the World Bank,

towards a digital economy, so that by 2011, it will

have the same telecommunication equipment and

infrastructure as developed countries.

Source: tunisiaonlinenews

AZUR Empowers Indigenous Women

As an organization which works to include

women, AZUR Development works in Bouenza

as well as Lékoumou counties in Congo to

identify problems encountered by women

there, including indigenous women. These

organizations have decided to work to respond

to the women’s needs. We would like the pygmy

women to speak for themselves and for their

voices to be heard.

Promoting the independence of indigenous

women is essential which is why AZUR

Developement and the Association of

Indigenous People of Congo (Association des

Peuples Autochtones) have decided to work

together.

This program of empowerment and

promotion of rights for indigenous women

will complement other programs currently

promoting leadership, entrepreneurship, access

to education.

Source: AZUR Development

World Bank to Help Farmers Get Market Data in Kenya

The World Bank is launching a project to make commodity pricing information available to farmers electronically. Digitalisation of agricultural commodity prices is part of an Sh8 billion Kenya Transparency and Communication Infrastructure Project (KTCIP)

whose aim is to increase the use of technology in the agricultural sector. Of the Sh8 billion funding, Sh200 million has been earmarked for development of a universal communication and information services using the Internet, short message services (SMS) and other forms of communication. Colin Bruce, the World Bank country director, said the bank’s support for the initiative is informed by insight into the potential that it has to reduce the cost of doing agribusiness in the country. The agricultural sector has been identified as a key area for fast-tracking the initiative due to the progress made by the Kenya Agricultural Commodities Exchange (KACE) has made. It developed information pipeline 10 years ago to update farmers on pricing trends in their respective markets. KACE utilises a market information system to help smallholder farmers access better markets and prices for their produce. The information is transmitted through mobile phones and the Internet. Source: balancingact-africa.

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African Dark Fibre Communications Ltd is at an advanced stage of negotiation with the South African Power Pool companies to lay fibre to connect the member countries. In this week’s issue it has issued a request for Expressions of Interest from contractors.

Phase 1 of the project is to complete and interconnect the fibre optic networks of three national electricity utilities with one another as well as to a competitive high-capacity undersea cable or equivalent. Phase 1 of the Project is scheduled for completion before the end of 2008. The three companies that to be linked would be South Africa’s Eskom, Zimbabwe’s ZESA and Zambia’s Zesco.

The latter two companies are already selling their domestic fibre capacity. A 2001 World Bank study recommended the VSAT communications system with a long-term plan to go over to fibre. The South African Power Pool’s network capacity management system between the three countries is currently handled by VSAT. The fibre across the network would replace the existing VSAT system. Peter Cole, African Dark Fibre Communications said:”Southern Africa is one of the last places on the planet to have access to competitive bandwidth. That’s what we’ll be providing.” The West African Festoon System (WAFS) is a Telkom South Africa-managed project that has already completed its feasibility phase. The WAFS project aims to connect countries along the western coast of Africa from Nigeria to Namibia. At present, only Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and South Africa have signed up although the project’s promoters want to attract telcos in both Namibia and Nigeria to complete the route. The managing agent for the project is Telkom South Africa which will either connect via Botswana (who may become another consortium member) or Namibia.

The consortium has already conducted a feasibility study and met in February 2007 to finalise the tendering process for the project. It appears that it will have the same governance structure as the SAT3 cable as well as also being managed by the same company Telkom SA. Prices on the cable have not yet been fixed. One of the purposes of building the cable is to ensure that some of the countries along its route have some redundancy capacity if there is a failure on the SAT3 cable and that inter-African traffic can be moved off of SAT3.

Further information was sought from Telkom South Africa but in time-honoured fashion it has not come back to us, not even to say ‘we have nothing to say’. What do those communications people all get paid

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One new major fibre project came into the light and further details emerged about another. The first is an ambitious initiative to create a Southern African fibre network on the back of the South African Power Pool transmission network: for Expressions of Interest for building it see the Jobs and Opportunities column at the bottom of this week’s issue. The second is WAFS, a Telkom South Africa-managed project that seeks to connect South Africa to Nigeria to relieve capacity problems on SAT3.

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A report on MyADSL quotes Department of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri from her budget speech last week saying that fair access to international submarine cables was key to driving down international bandwidth rates. This follows President Thabo Mbeki saying that low international calling rates were essential for attracting business to South Africa. Matsepe-Casaburri said:“It is Government policy that the cost of access to international connectivity is affordable and that all arrangements regarding access or use of international cables and/or facilities do not unfairly exclude others from use of or access to the cables.”

The minister named 1 November 2007 as the date from when the exclusivity provisions contained in the SAT-3 agreement or arrangements entered into shall be declared null and void in South Africa. The minister further said that she directed ICASA to prioritise and urgently prescribe a list of essential facilities, ensuring that the electronic communications facilities connected to the SAT-3 submarine cable can be accessed soon. Is it going to happen this time or should we advise you to watch the horizon for flying pigs? South African politicians seem to talk a good game when it comes to delivering cheaper international bandwidth but thus far – despite being the people that run the country – have delivered nothing. These same politicians seem able to change the CEO of the company but have been powerless all these years to address an issue they say is so pressing. Is it surprising that countries like Kenya are skeptical when the same South African politicians talk commandingly about open access and cheaper fibre in the context of the EASSy protocol? There are also a couple of interesting rumours swirling round the edge of fibre developments on the continent…Firstly, fibre prices in Reunion, the French colony in the Indian Ocean will fall to US$620 a meg at the end of this year. How does that compare to what you’re currently paying? Telkom South Africa customers might wish to ask their supplier how their current charges are distance-related? For the purposes of fair comparison, they might also add that Mauritius Telecom is offering capacity at US$3000 per meg and below for volume. Those working on SAT3 inside Telkom know its prices must come down so when is it going to happen?

Source: Balancing act

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EditorialThe empowerment of citizens to address

social problems, to keep government accountable to the people, and to ensure that minority groups have a voice in

political processes is vital to sustaining stability in societies around the world.

The Civil Society is currently dealing with repercussions associated with the growing gap between the rich and poor and an increasingly frustrated marginalized indigenous population. The ability for grassroots movements to work towards change within the democratic system is crucial. ICT has the potential to increase levels of citizen participation in public discussions on the development of government policy. Citizen engagement using ICT also has the potential to further promote a culture of democratic decision-making. One example of citizen engagement using ICT is online engagement. Online engagement can include online forums, Web Logs (BLOGS) on nominated discussion topics or e-mail discussion groupsThe Civil society must realize that ICTs are the ideal vehicle for the dissemination of information from both parties. This information revolution is fast and requires integrated development strategies. In short if our governments still do not provide the infrastructure and implement ICT related policies effectively then the gap between government and its people will continue o grow.

Information highway is understood to originate and flow from the developed countries. But, in the past few years, information and communications technology has been a pouring wave into Africa and as such developing countries have no other choice but to adopt such technologies.

Those who do not, risks being further marginalised and consequently, build up new barriers. Let’s ensure that information and communication are respected as human rights, in the building of knowledge society.

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In Coura, a district of Mali’s capital Bamako, it’s now possible to monitor the health of local infants closely in real time with the launch of a new pilot project dubbed Pesinet. Initiated and funded by Alcatel-Lucent, Foundation Orange Mali, Afrique Initiatives, Medicament Export (Medex) and Kafo Yeredeme, the project aims to provide a preventative medical diagnostic service for infants between 0-5 years,

based on regular checks on the children’s’ weight gain.

The service is based on weighing the children every week at home twice a week for children under a year by people who are specially trained. These staff members of the service who do the weighing are for the most part local women living in Coura. And the fact that many of the women live locally means that the community feels a strong sense of ownership for the project.

The main job for these local staff is to enter the weights of infants via a Java application on their mobiles. This information is then sent via GPRS to a database used to help the pediatricians of Pesinet to quickly spot those infants that are at risk. According to Robert Dulery, Director of Medicament Export: “Consistent monitoring of variations of weight is a basic medical service, but it’s also an effective way of detecting a range of illnesses from malnutrition to malaria and it allows the doctor to intervene quickly.”

The “Pesinet ladies” not only register the weight of the child but they also check for four other supplementary symptoms: fever, diarrhea, coughing and vomiting. All of this information provide alert signals to the Pesinet paediatricians as to whether the infant is in good health or there is a case for immediate medical intervention. But the processes of the project are not simply limited to detection. The service also includes medical consultations and access to medicines. Again according to Robert Dulery “access to medicines is the real value of the service for people.”

There are currently 300 subscribers in Coura but the objective of the project is to have 1,200 subscribers by December 2007, the evaluation date for the project. The success of the project will be judged as much on medical as financial criteria. In the medical plan, the medical team are looking for a perceptible drop in the infant mortality rate. In a similar project rolled out in Saint-Louis in Senegal, the infant mortality rate fell from 120 per thousand to 8 per thousand. In 90% of cases, the symptoms of the disease are easily treated. If the illness is caught quickly, the child will recover quickly.

From the financial point of the view, those behind the project want to achieve a level of 1200-1500 children in order that the project will breakeven and become self-financing. The costs of the project are recovered by revenues generated by subscription charges. This subscription charge is FCFA500 (US$1.05) a month per child that also covers both visits to the doctor and basic medicines. Alcatel-Lucent and Afrique Initiatives helped launch the project with financial and technical expertise. Medex also contributed financially and provide the necessary medicines during the pilot phase. The La Fondation Orange Mali employed the paediatrician, the “Coura ladies” and supplied eight baby weighing scales and six mobile phones. The evaluation is being carried out by students from ESSEC in Paris, together with a team from “Create an Innovative Product”. The Malian association Kafo Yeredeme Ton were responsible for operations on the ground.

Alioune Ndiaye, D-G of Orange Mali and President of the Fondation Orange Mali, added :”Supporting projects that are aimed at improving health in Mali are at the heart of our commitment. As a major operator in the region, we are happy to be able to contribute, based on our technologies, a way of reducing infant mortality in a community where we live and work.” Source: balancingact-africa

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In Coura, a district of Mali’s capital Bamako, it’s now possible to monitor the health of local infants closely in real time with the launch of a new pilot project dubbed Pesinet. Initiated and funded by Alcatel-Lucent, Foundation Orange Mali, Afrique Initiatives, Medicament Export (Medex) and Kafo Yeredeme, the project aims to provide a preventative medical diagnostic service for infants between 0-5 years,

based on regular checks on the children’s’ weight gain.

The service is based on weighing the children every week at home twice a week for children under a year by people who are specially trained. These staff members of the service who do the weighing are for the most part local women living in Coura. And the fact that many of the women live locally means that the community feels a strong sense of ownership for the project.

The main job for these local staff is to enter the weights of infants via a Java application on their mobiles. This information is then sent via GPRS to a database used to help the pediatricians of Pesinet to quickly spot those infants that are at risk. According to Robert Dulery, Director of Medicament Export: “Consistent monitoring of variations of weight is a basic medical service, but it’s also an effective way of detecting a range of illnesses from malnutrition to malaria and it allows the doctor to intervene quickly.”

The “Pesinet ladies” not only register the weight of the child but they also check for four other supplementary symptoms: fever, diarrhea, coughing and vomiting. All of this information provide alert signals to the Pesinet paediatricians as to whether the infant is in good health or there is a case for immediate medical intervention. But the processes of the project are not simply limited to detection. The service also includes medical consultations and access to medicines. Again according to Robert Dulery “access to medicines is the real value of the service for people.”

There are currently 300 subscribers in Coura but the objective of the project is to have 1,200 subscribers by December 2007, the evaluation date for the project. The success of the project will be judged as much on medical as financial criteria. In the medical plan, the medical team are looking for a perceptible drop in the infant mortality rate. In a similar project rolled out in Saint-Louis in Senegal, the infant mortality rate fell from 120 per thousand to 8 per thousand. In 90% of cases, the symptoms of the disease are easily treated. If the illness is caught quickly, the child will recover quickly.

From the financial point of the view, those behind the project want to achieve a level of 1200-1500 children in order that the project will breakeven and become self-financing. The costs of the project are recovered by revenues generated by subscription charges. This subscription charge is FCFA500 (US$1.05) a month per child that also covers both visits to the doctor and basic medicines. Alcatel-Lucent and Afrique Initiatives helped launch the project with financial and technical expertise. Medex also contributed financially and provide the necessary medicines during the pilot phase. The La Fondation Orange Mali employed the paediatrician, the “Coura ladies” and supplied eight baby weighing scales and six mobile phones. The evaluation is being carried out by students from ESSEC in Paris, together with a team from “Create an Innovative Product”. The Malian association Kafo Yeredeme Ton were responsible for operations on the ground.

Alioune Ndiaye, D-G of Orange Mali and President of the Fondation Orange Mali, added :”Supporting projects that are aimed at improving health in Mali are at the heart of our commitment. As a major operator in the region, we are happy to be able to contribute, based on our technologies, a way of reducing infant mortality in a community where we live and work.” Source: balancingact-africa

Mobile ServiceHelps Bring Down Infant Mortality In Mali

Online “Love” Lands Farmer Into Problems

An Australian farmer who was kidnapped and beaten in Mali after walking into an Internet bride scam has pleaded with people to be

careful looking for online love. South Australian farmer Des Gregor, 56, returned to Australia after being held hostage by machete-armed bandits for 12 days.

“I was tied, bound by the legs, and that was only probably for a couple of days because they knew that I was going to cooperate. There was always one bloke sleeping at the door, there was no way out,” Gregor told Australian media.

Love-struck Gregor arrived in Mali last in July 2007 to meet his supposed fiancee, Natacha, whom he had “met” on the Internet, and collect a dowry of gold bars worth $100,000. Instead, the wheat and sheep farmer was picked up at the airport in a car

Lighter noteand driven to a single bedroom apartment in the capital, Bamako, which was full of armed men. Gregor was told his limbs would be hacked off unless his family in Australia paid a $100,000 ransom. The scam was only stopped and Gregor freed when Australian and Mali police in turn duped the kidnappers into letting Gregor enter the Canadian embassy in Bamako to collect the ransom. Gregor said he had no inkling before his arrival that he was a victim of a confidence trick and had now learnt his lesson.

“I reckon another couple of days and I wouldn’t have returned,” he said, recounting “a good belting” he received with a machete during his ordeal. Gregor warned others looking for love over the Internet to be careful. Source: thestar.com

Did U’know Did you know that the term “information technology” evolved in the 1970s. Its basic concept, however, can be traced to the World War II alliance of the military and industry in the development of electronics, computers, and information theory. After the 1940s, the military remained the major source of research and development funding for the expansion of automation to replace manpower with machine power.

Did you know that since the 1950s, four generations of computers have evolved. Each generation reflected a change to hardware of decreased size but increased capabilities to control computer operations. The first generation used vacuum tubes, the second used transistors, the third used integrated circuits, and the fourth used integrated circuits on a single computer

chip.

Did you know that the first commercial computer was the UNIVAC I, developed by John Eckert and John W. Mauchly in 1951. It was used by the Census Bureau to predict the outcome of the 1952 USA presidential election. For the next twenty-five years, mainframe computers were used in large corporations to do calculations and manipulate large amounts of information stored in databases.

Did you know that Computers today are divided into four categories by size, cost, and processing ability. They are supercomputer, mainframe, minicomputer, and microcomputer, more commonly known as a personal computer. Personal computer categories include desktop, network, laptop, and handheld.

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“OneWorld Africa helps communities through Information Communication Technologies such as phones, computers, radios and internet facilities that provide opportunities for ordinary people to improve their lives. Through such assistance, people have gone through the barriers of language and illiteracy. When women are armed with ICTs, they are able to deal with violence against women”. Jere said.

She appealed to Government to expedite the Information Communication Technology Policy by ensuring that ICTs are more accessible to development actors.

OneWorld Africa contributed 2 computers and a printer, a television set and a DVD camera recorder to the groups in Chongwe to help the women address their information needs. She Celtel provided 3 community pay phones.

Women Group’s representative Felistus Kanyangwa said the tools will assist in improving their livelihoods.

The women from Chongwe have received training from OneWorld Africa on computer basics and information packaging that led them produce a local newsletter. They also participated during the training conducted by OneWorld Africa in combating Malaria using ICTs.

…..Roan Youths Receive A Short In The Arm.

The demise of the copper-mining giant Z.C.C.M. has had a marked impact in Luanshya. Economic development of any kind in this town depends upon the export potential of its mineral resource. Thus the privatization of the copper mining industry has entailed the loss of revenue to the people. This has been evidenced by a startling decline in the commercial and industrial production.

The working class on the in this town have been subjected to untold misery. The public sector has shed its labour force while those who have remained in active employment work under shoddy conditions. Privatisation of the public and commercial sector has led to widespread unemployment in Zambia.

A local youth organisation called Roan Youth Organisation has partnered with OneWorld Africa to engage its people in coming up with advocacy programmes that will faciliate development.

“Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) are occupying the lives and outlook of the younger members of society but also the variety of cultures which are being woven around them in the making of contemporary youth identity. The global ICT revolution has been refracted into Luanshya in a variety of forms, including mobile telephony, Video, new digital technologies covering an ever-widening range of applications, computers and computer-based technologies, and internet services. We shall work hard to turn around the lives of people in our communities using these applications. We look forward to a better Luanshya”, Chewe said.

The group recieved a Video Camera and 2 computers from OWA. The tools will enable them propagate their advocacy campaigns.

Chewe said the issues tackled by his groups include Entrepreneurship , Malaria, HIV-AIDS, Civic awareness and human rights.

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Our VisionA vibrant, prosperous Africa that is people centred, inclusive and equitable.

Our Mission To be an effective ICT enabled communication network of civil society organizations seeking to influence policy through the use of African knowledge using a wide range of ICTs.

Our Values 1. Human dignity for all as enshrined in the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights;2. Working in partnership to avoid re-inventing similar

initiatives ;3. Maintaining integrity and solidarity as we realize our

goals;4. Strive to learn new ways of doing things;5. Creativity and innovation in attaining excellence;

Our WorkOWA work is segmented into four program areas namely:1. Local Knowledge for Development2. Capacity Building;3. IT Access;4. Policy Advocacy.

About us

OneWorld Africa (OWA) is a not for profit organization founded in 1999 to promote

sustainable development and social justice across the African continent.

We achieve this by providing more people in Africa with the capacity to utilize

locally available knowledge through the use of Information Communication and Technologies

(ICTs).

The backbone of our operation is a network of civil society organizations coordinated by regional focal points in Southern, Eastern and West Africa. We have a strong presence in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone regions. With a secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia, we are part of the OneWorld

International network of over 1 500 affiliated partners.

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Contact Executive DirectorOneWorld Africa - P.O. Box 37011 Lusaka-Zambia. Tel (+260 1) 292740 / Fax (+260 1) 294188http://africa.oneworld.net email: priscilla.jere@oneworld.netCompiled and Edited byKelvin Chibomba - OWA Editor Priscilla Jere - Executive Director

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