Conseiller/Conseillère de Soutien en Technologie de l'Information Front Line, la Fondation Internationale pour la Protection des Défenseurs des Droits Humains, désire recruter un Conseiller de Soutien en Technologie de l'Information pour un projet dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo.
Le candidat retenu réalisera les tâches suivantes:
- aider à établir un soutien technique et à fournir des conseils stratégiques sur les systèmes de technologie de l'information utilisés par des défenseurs des droits humains. Cela comprend l'administration de réseaux, de Microsoft Office, des systèmes de courrier électronique et des bases de données;
- aider à établir, installer, tester et fournir un soutien technique pour des ordinateurs et leurs périphériques. Détecter et résoudre des problèmes liés au matériel et aux logiciels ainsi que réparer et remplacer du matériel informatique, des imprimantes et des logiciels défectueux;
- assurer le suivi et donner régulièrement des conseils en matière de sécurité sur des questions relatives aux systèmes de technologie de l'information des défenseurs des droits humains;
- assurer la formation des défenseurs des droits humains pour une utilisation en toute sécurité de la technologie de l'information;
- pouvoir se déplacer régulièrement dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo et parfois à l'échelle internationale;
- pouvoir gérer la mise en ?uvre de projets avec un petit budget et rédiger des rapports détaillés sur les activités et les dépenses;

Exigences minimales :
Langues: Maîtrise du français (une bonne connaissance de l'anglais constitue un atout).
Études: Diplôme universitaire avec spécialisation en informatique et en technologie de la communication Internet et/ou formation et expérience équivalentes.
Expérience: Expérience de la prestation de séances de formation sur des sujets techniques. La connaissance des logiciels libres au code source disponible est souhaitable.
Capacités: Ingéniosité ainsi que bonnes capacités d'organisation et de communication, ce qui comprend la capacité de travailler de façon autonome et de communiquer avec courtoisie et diplomatie avec des gens provenant de divers milieux. Il est essentiel de comprendre les besoins et les méthodes de travail des organisations non gouvernementales dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo ainsi que de pouvoir travailler dans un environnement peu sûr.

Modalités:
Le poste est d'une durée de trois ans. Le candidat retenu recevra une formation adéquate en matière technique et en matière de sécurité. Le poste est situé dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo. Le salaire est en fonction de l'expérience. Pour poser votre candidature pour ce poste, veuillez envoyer votre lettre de motivation accompagnée de votre C.V. à Mr Andrew Anderson [email protected] ou par fax au + 353 1 212 1001 avant le 31 octobre 2004. Merci.

The Resource Alliance have partnered with CR Search and Selection (CRSS) to launch a new international recruitment website for the not-for-profit sector called: Global Fundraising Jobs: www.globalfundraisingjobs.com. The website will be launched at the Resource Alliance's flagship event, the 24th International Fundraising Congress, on 12-15 October 2004, in the Netherlands.

This is a scholarship exchange programme that aims to assist individual media practitioners from southern Africa in all areas of the media (managerial, editorial, advertising, and technical) to work on attachment in another media institution to learn new skills and develop existing ones. Both full-time employees and freelancers are eligible to apply. Rolling Deadline.

The biggest technology player in francophone Africa is CFAO Technologies. Bought by French magnate François Pinault, he decided to make it a major African technology player and its rapid growth put the heat on local ICT suppliers. Now there's a Senegalese company that's biting back. Launched by Mamadou Dieng, Netcom is a systems integrator that is rapidly building itself a regional presence through local acquisitions. Interestingly, there are few independent regional companies like this in anglophone Africa of any scale.

The long awaited first part of Balancing Act's African Internet Country Market Profiles is now out and covers 22 countries in West Africa. It also contains a summary overview of the internet in these countries and a look at the coming legalisation of VoIP in West Africa: who will be the winners and losers?

The University of Guelph is conducting a research project to collect information to develop a database of community radio stations in Africa. To be included, please send: Name of radio station; contact person; physical and mailing address; telephone number (with area code): fax; email address; website; radio frequency (ex: 95.2 FM); date established; funding sources; range (number of kilometers); power source (watts); languages broadcast in (please include all); Does your station have rural development programming including but not limited to agriculture, health and the environment? If yes, how many minutes per week is this type of programming broadcast? Number of hours per week you broadcast any NON MUSIC programming? Number of hours per week you broadcast total (including music and non music programming)? And any other relevant information about your station.

Before the FBI seized their computers last week, Indymedia had tangoed with FBI agents over the photo of undercover Swiss police published on one of its sites, its activists had been involved in a September court case on electronic voting machines and, it had had an unpleasant encounter with the Italian riot police in 2001. While it is still not clear if the confiscated computers have anything to do with any of these incidents, analysts also find it curious that the seizure came just one week before Indymedia's Communication Rights and Tactical Media Productions event which is scheduled to run parallel to the European Social Forum.

On October 8, 2004, Indymedia has learned that the request to seize Indymedia servers hosted by a US company in the UK originated from government agencies in Italy and Switzerland. More than 20 Indymedia sites, several internet radio streams and other projects were hosted on the servers. They were taken offline on October 7th after an order was issued to Rackspace, Inc., one of Indymedia's web hosting providers.

The survival of youths in a private sector-driven or full capitalist economy can no longer be guaranteed, due to the challenges that such an economy presents. The Youth Emancipation Crusader is requesting you to share your views on our discussion board related to the following questions: How can unemployed youth survive in a capitalist world?; Has youth empowerment eroded?; How vulnerable are youth to exploitation by this system?; Is youth survival or protection an issue of national and continental (African) interest?; How responsive are the government(s) and the society(ies) to this issue?

A group of Kenyans are making a case for a new publication which can focus on the political, economic and social struggle in Kenya from a different ideological perspective. At the moment, the mainstream print media is dominated by the Daily Nation, The Standard and Kenya Times, three major publications which, according to the Mapambano working group, although very informative in news and analysis, are publications that project a one-sided ideological point of view.

On October 7 2004, the state prosecution in the Caprivi high treason trial asked the court to place a partial ban on the media's reporting of the trial. State Advocate Taswald July asked Judge Elton Hoff to order the media not to reveal the identity of the third witness the State intends to call. The state's prosecution team stressed the fact that they were neither asking for a total ban on the media reporting on the trial proceedings, nor on the publication of the testimony given by the witness. Human rights and media activist however questioned the efficacy of the order, if granted, as it only seeks to prevent the media from reporting on and disclosing the identity of one of the witnesses. The public, however, is allowed free access to both courts and prisons. All 120 treason suspects are in custody and being tried at Grootfontein.

BACKGROUND
In the early hours of August 2, 1999, members of a secessionist group, the Caprivi Liberation Army (CLA), launched an armed attack on government forces and buildings in the regional capital of Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi region of north eastern Namibia. According to official sources, they attacked the police headquarters, the local offices of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation, an army base and an immigration post. In the attacks, 11 people were killed, at least six of whom were members of the security forces. That evening, President Samuel Nujoma declared a State of Emergency. A curfew was imposed in Katima Mulilo and Namibia's borders with Angola, Zambia and Botswana were closed. Mishake Muyongo, leader of the CLA, was granted political asylum in Denmark.

The Television Training Centre (TTC) of Deutsche Welle, Germany, and the Community Video Education Trust (CVET), South Africa, announce the presentation of 2 Full-Time courses to be held in Cape Town, facilitated by experts in each field: Digital Post Production: 1 November to 8 November 2004 and; The TV Production Chain: 1 November to 27 November 2004. Applications should be submitted to the Community Video Education Trust(CVET), PO Box 2870 Cape Town, 8000, Fax: 0866 455 402. Deadline: 17 October 2004.

The World Movement for Democracy is gravely concerned wioth the conviction of World Movement for Democracy participant Paul Kamara, editor of the Sierra Leone paper For Di People. On October 5th, Mr. Kamara received a four years prison sentence for criminally libeling Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Paul Kamara was also convicted of criminal libel and served a six month prison for defaming a judge in 2002. Both sentences have received strong criticism from international and local media groups such as the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the Sierra Leone Associations of Journalists.

In a report entitled The Internet Under Surveillance, Reporters Without Borders document the obstacles to the free flow of communication in countries throughout the world. This report is as much a call for diligence from nations where things are still pretty open as it is a critique of those states that filter content for everyone.

Bonjour! Nous vous faisons parvenir le guide pratique d'informations sur le 1er forum social ouest africain qui se tiendra à Conakry du 28 au 30 novembre 2004. Ce forum s'inscrit dans la dynamique de proposition d'alternatives de développement en Afrique. Il se veut comme un cadre d' excellence de concertation et d'analyse des politiques de développement du continent africain. Pour d'amples informations, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel pour avoir le texte intitulé "Tout sur le Forum Social Ouest Africain - FSOA". La participation est ouverte à tous les acteurs de la société civile du monde notament ceux de l'espace de la CEDEAO. Une Autre Afrique de l'Ouest est possible! Cordialement.

Moussa KOUROUMA Chargé de Programme Droits économiques et culturels (DREC) au Centre du Commerce International pour le Développement (CECIDE). BP: 3768 Conakry. GUINEE FAX: 0015097530807 TEL: (0224)467035/013 404599

The technical centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) has published its ICT Update October Issue which includes GenARDIS award-winning projects. Some of these include: an NGO in Ghana which is using video equipment to enable women to devise community plans for natural resource management; computer training to women civil servants in rural areas of Benin and how a database system, an online input calculator, and email are helping women farmers in Malawi to improve agricultural production.

With the brand name TITV, African Trumpet Telecommunications Limited (ATTL), will through the use of satellite technology bring to Nigerians world-class television programming that resonates with its African target as well as Internet services through the same channel. At the media presentation of the company last week, Managing Director, Nathan Garner, said the company was established to help West Africans in large numbers unto the Information Technology age, stressing that the company would live up to the promise by offering its services at affordable prices.

A radio station in Uganda has been forced to pay a fine for hosting homosexuals in a live talk show. The Ugandan Broadcasting Council fined Radio Simba over $1,000 and ordered it to make a public apology. The programme is "contrary to public morality and is not in compliance with the existing law," the council's chairman, Godfrey Mutabazi, said. Information Minister Nsaba Buturo defended the measure saying Ugandans wanted to uphold "God's moral values". Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda.

Guinean Security Minister Moussa Sampil has confiscated all 950 copies of the weekly "Le Petit matin" on 23 September 2004 because of an article ridiculing his "mistakes", and then trying to justify the seizure by falsely claiming the newspaper was illegal. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) added, "We call for 'Le Petit matin' to be allowed to resume publishing normally and for it to be compensated for the financial losses resulting from the seizure of the 23 September issue."

Some Christian clergymen and journalists locked horns early this week at a seminar in Swaziland over the use of condoms and masturbation as some of the safe practices in the fight against HIV and Aids. A South African Anglican reverend, Jape Heath, introduced the duo practices to the workshop participants, while the Arch-Deacon of Anglican, Diocese of Swaziland, Shongwe Londoloza, immediately disagreed, saying the two practices were anathema to African values and Christianity as a whole.