http://www.netsquared.org/tags/pan-african share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/pambazuka-news <div class="field field-type-image field-field-project-screenshot"> <div class="field-items"> <h3 class="field-label">Project Screenshot</h3> <div class="field-item"><img src="http://www.netsquared.org/sites/netsquared.org/files/imagecache/casestudy_teaserimage/sites/netsquared.org/files/casestudy/Pambazuka1.jpg" alt="Pambazuka1.jpg" title="Pambazuka1.jpg" /></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-cs-org"> <div class="field-items"> <h3 class="field-label">Supporting organization</h3> <div class="field-item">Fahamu.org</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-cs-url"> <div class="field-items"> <h3 class="field-label">URL</h3> <div class="field-item">www.pambazuka.org</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-affiliate-organizations"> <div class="field-items"> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-project-description"> <div class="field-items"> <h3 class="field-label">Project Description</h3> <div class="field-item"><p>Pambazuka News is a weekly electronic newsletter covering news, commentary, analysis and a range of other resources on human rights and development in Africa. <p>Every week we commission work to provide original commentaries on key events in Africa, combined with a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa. </p> <p>Produced by Fahamu South Africa and using volunteers based in Africa, Pambazuka News produces 30-40 text pages of information about Africa on a weekly basis. with content categorised into 28 content themes, making it easy for subscribers to access information that is relevant to their needs.</p> <p>The newsletter has become Africa's most widely distributed electronic newsletter on social justice with a readership estimated at 60,000. Major newspapers have reprinted editorials and since June 2003, AllAfrica.com has also carried all issues of Pambazuka News in full on their Peace Africa subsite (allafrica.com/peaceafrica/).</p> <p>-----------------------&nbsp;</p> <p class="heading"><strong>Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other&rsquo;s differences, and realise their full potential.</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Fahamu supports the struggle for human rights and social justice in Africa by:</p> <ul> <li>Stimulating debate, discussion and analysis</li> <li>Distributing news and information</li> <li>Developing training materials and running distance-learning courses</li> <li>Supporting social justice advocacy through innovative use of information and communications technologies</li> </ul> <p>Although Fahamu focuses primarily on Africa, we work with others to support the global movement for human rights and social justice.</p> <p>The word Fahamu means &lsquo;understanding&rsquo; or &lsquo;consciousness&rsquo; in Kiswahili.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-points-of-interest"> <div class="field-items"> </div> </div> http://www.netsquared.org/pambazuka-news#comments africa education Grassroots pan african poverty aids progressive social change social justice Grassroots mobilization/activation Aggregation (republishing content from RSS feeds) Blogging Cell phones/SMS/Mobile Podcasting RSS (publishing information to an RSS/XML feed) Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:35:43 -0500 Vlogine 347 at http://www.netsquared.org