I ask leaders of nonprofit organizations if they have an email strategy and their usual response is something on the order of "huh?" They are spending enormous amounts of money and staff time on their web sites and it's the rare exception that the organization even has enough of an email strategy to have a newsletter. They are wasting their money. I'm serious.

Health Systems Trust publishes a monthly newsletter called UPDATE, which is also accessible via the internet. This month's issue deals with Telemedicine.

The Natali Prize for West African Journalism - Applications Sought from West African Print Journalists. Celebrating Journalism in the Struggle for Fair and Just Development.

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MediaChannel.org - news, reports, resources and opinion. Featuring content from over 650 media-issues groups worldwide.

3 May 2001 will be the tenth edition of World Press Freedom Day. The World Association of Newspapers once again calls on media to make a major effort to give impact to this important occasion and by doing so to remind the enemies of a free press that they must account for themselves on the international stage.

"Say Yes for Children" is an unprecedented attempt to rally people everywhere behind 10 overarching actions and principles needed to improve the lives and protect the rights of children and young people. A series of national and regional launches are planned for the campaign, and the international launch takes place today in London. The campaign aims to collect pledges worldwide using both the Internet and paper pledge forms. The results of the campaign will be presented to world leaders at the UN Special Session on Children in September 2001.

Partners fight internet fraud. E-mailing our lives away. Nigeria: Atlantic Bank Opens Shop for Internet Banking. Nigeria: Nitel's Privatisation. Gambia: Gambians Abroad May Vote in October Elections.

As democratic governance in Nigeria approaches its second anniversary, the activities of the media, believed worldwide to have a significant bearing on the successful prosecution of the form of government, is once again coming under scrutiny. Media Rights Agenda, working with ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, based in London, this month begins a Media Monitoring Project in Nigeria.

Monday 16 April to Sunday 22 April 2001. The government’s campaign to encourage Zimbabweans to celebrate Independence Day – and the event itself - dominated the state-owned media in the week. Zimpapers and the ZBC both quoted government officials and sympathetic analysts as interpreting the enthusiastic response as an expression of the people’s faith in the President, the ruling party and the government’s fast-track land seizures.

infoDev request for proposals to design an Internet-based platform designed to share information, tools, and services about development worldwide. infoDev will award a grant of up to $60,000 to develop the E-Government Toolkit. It is expected that the toolkit should be completed within six to eight months of the award. The authors of the E-Government toolkit may also be invited to a World Bank workshop on E-Government in Washington, D.C. on June 11 and 12, 2001. Please note: All proposals are due by Friday, May 4, 2001

The Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising (SAIF) was established in 1986. It is a non-profit voluntary organisation which exists to promote and encourage high standards of ethics, practice and public service among people involved in fundraising in Southern Africa.

Salary : Between 30,720 and 47,795 EURO
Location : Maastricht/The Hague, Netherlands
Closing Date : 30 Apr 2001

Held in association with Nature. Additional partners: NASDAQ, Business Week, and CNBC. 1st and 2nd July, 2001. London, England (at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Relevant to anyone involved in developing and applying new technologies, investors in such developments, and those with strategic interests in existing and future technologies. The meeting includes sessions designed to help attendees share perspectives and make the most useful contacts.

The IT News Service For Southern Africa.

Global: Dotcoms start charging for services; North Africa: Local language domain names selling rapidly; Global: Worldwide competition forum to be created.

South Africa's Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang "dropped a bombshell" yesterday when she announced that the government had "no immediate plans to use the landmark legal victory" to obtain antiretroviral drugs.

Still pictures of African wildlife appear everywhere. There is a voracious interest in wildlife in the developed world and animals are used in adverts to exemplify product characteristics. This trade in images is now conducted largely digitally over the internet. The "new economy" was supposed to enable businesses to cut out "the middle man". For African wildlife photographers things turned out to be a little more complex. Russell Southwood uncovers a tale that has all the best ingredients of an internet content story: financial pressures in a falling market, monopoly providers and an oversupply of the key commodity.

The latest collection of snippets from the world of Telematics and Development.

The US Internet Council State of the Internet Report 2000 finds that high connection costs, low incomes, poor infrastructure, illiteracy, lack of trained personnel, disinterest and a failure to understand the benefits of Internet access continue to slow the expansion of computer penetration and Internet use in Africa.