Africa: 'Incubation of ICT Capacity Building' workshops

INVITATION FOR COLLABORATION

Ungana-Afrika, with the support of OSISA (http://www.osisa.org/), is
implementing a series of free workshops in the SADC region that help
networks of non-profit organisations understand and implement new models
of technology support and capacity-building. In 2006 Ungana-Afrika will
implement these 'Incubation of ICT Capacity Building' workshops in two
different countries in Southern Africa and we are looking for pro-active
local organisations to collaborate with in this regard.

Our goal is to help networks of non-profits and individual organisations
within them, with the start-up of their ICT programs, a process known as
incubation. To date, Ungana-Afrika has hosted workshops in three
different countries (South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique), two of which
are starting-up technology support projects utilizing the new models
introduced to them by Ungana-Afrika.

Ungana-Afrika is a South Africa based non-profit organisation addressing
the reality of today's "technology capacity crisis" by building
innovative ICT programs and tools for the development community, and its
service providers. Our mission is to empower development oganisations to
better integrate ICTs as a strategic, mission focused, tool. For more
information about us visit http://www.ungana-afrika.org

We invite interested organisations and networks who meet the following
requirements to indicate interest by contacting us by 10 February 2006.

The organisation should:

* be operational within the civil society sector for more than two
years and should be located in Southern Africa
* have good knowledge of the civil society sector within the country
of operation
* have basic understanding of the Information and Communication
Technology needs of the sector they operate within
* have capacity building experience
* be willing to work with Ungana-Afrika to organise an incubation
workshop and to collaborate in future projects
* be interested in eRiding. see www.eriders.net

Organisations interested in launching their own capacity-building
programs/structures would be ideal candidates for such a partnership, as
they would have a very direct collaboration with Ungana-Afrika and the
concepts from the workshop.

The partner organisation will assist Ungana-Afrika to organise the
incubation of ICT capacity building workshops by:

* helping Ungana-Afrika with distribution of marketing and
invitations of the incubation workshop
* helping with logistical arrangements of the incubation workshop
which includes organising workshop venue, necessary materials and
catering during the workshop
* helping with registration of workshop participants
* helping with organising accommodation of facilitators and
participants wherever necessary
* helping with facilitation and coordination of the workshop
wherever possible

Please contact Tshepo Thlaku for more information on email:
[email protected] phone: +27 12
809 0531 fax: +27 12 349 9327.