Links: Organizations & Social
Organizations
- Acacia Initiative – an IDRC-run integrated program of research and demonstration projects
- Africa4All Project – parliamentary initiative
- African Centre for Women, ICT – based in Kenya, empowering young women
- African Registry Consortium – for preparing, submitting, funding and promoting a successful bid to ICANN for the dotafrica new gTLD
- African Society for ICT – nurturing ICT4D networks
- African Virtual University – a Pan-African open, distance and e-learning network
- AfriConnect – provider of sustainable Internet solutions
- AfrISPA – addresses Internet services and holds meetings
- AFRIT – supporting technology diffusion in Africa
- AFTLD – a focal point for African TLD managers
- AITEC – empowers Africa’s ICT community
- Association for Progressive Communications – a non-profit aiming for free and open Internet
- CIPESA – ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa
- Computer Aid International – sustainably providing computers to developing areas
- Computers for Africa – a non-profit supplying secondhand computers
- Connect Africa – an initiative to bring communication, business, and services to rural areas across Africa
- CyberSmart Africa – reaches the poorest schools on earth with the world’s first adapted interactive whiteboard operating with inexpensive solar power
- Digital Partnership – bridging the digital divide
- EuroAfrica-ICT – home to many workshops
- First Mile First Inch – exploring how the first mile in under-served areas can be bridged with WiFi and other DIY technologies
- FOSSFA – free software and open source foundation for Africa
- Freedom House – monitoring Internet freedom
- Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE) – information on gender and ICT
- GlobalGiving – a non-profit with multiple ICT projects in Africa
- Global Impact Study – a five-year study seeking to find if public Internet access makes a difference
- Google Africa Blog – Google updates from Africa
- ICITD – International Center for IT Development
- ICT_Works – sustainable ICT events, interviews, and reports
- ICTET – to enable the private sector involved in ICT within Ethiopia
- iDisc – Africa – infoDev support for business incubation projects
- IDRC – International Development Research Centre
- infoDev – program of the World Bank and IFC
- ITAG – Information Technology Association of the Gambia
- International Conference on ICT for Africa – annual conference
- Internet Society – African Chapters – contact information for the 20 ISOC chapters in Africa
- IST-Africa – a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on reducing the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
- ITU Acadmy – provides online courses on broadband issues
- Kenya ICT Board – positioning and promoting Kenya as an ICT destination
- Kenya Telecentres – increasing the social and economic impact of grass root telecentres as a national network
- Knowledge for Development – harnesses science and technology for the development of agriculture in their countries
- Learning without Frontiers – explores how new disruptive technologies can drive improvements in learning
- LOG-IN Africa – pan-African network of researchers and research institutions
- MobileActive – a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact
- National Democratic Institute – information about Africa’s elections
- OLPC – one laptop per child
- OneWebDay – broadening the world’s awareness of Web issues
- Rwanda Telecentre Network – creating a network that would reach 70% of the total population of Rwanda
- SAFIPA – South Africa/Finland partnership
- Tech/NA! – Namibia’s ICTs in education initiative
- TechCamp – U.S. led program to help global regions build digital capacity
- TelecentresAfrica – supporting rural community service delivery. Great resources and community
- TENET – The Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa
- The African Network – global non-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship and technology among people of African descent
- The ICT University – promotes global ICT and human capacity development
- USADF – U.S. African Development Foundation
- USAID – Sub-Saharan Africa – U.S. foreign assistance to Africa
- USAID – IT – U.S. foreign assistance with IT, often mentions Africa
- ushahidi – non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping
- Viafrica – Amsterdam-based organization that furthers ICT through sustainable projects
- West African ICT Congress – sub-regional conference on ICT
- World Computer Exchange – non-profit that connects youth to the Internet in 71 nations
- World Wide Web Foundation – oversees multiple projects in Africa, relating to business incubation and agriculture
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