MICRO-ENTERPRISE

1. Nakaseke Women Development Association [2] (NAWODA) - Uganda - trains women in the use of ICTs and helps them integrate these skills into
their daily income-generating activities. Contact Henry Serunkuma [3].

2. ASAFE [4] (Association pour le Soutien et L'Appui a La Femme Entrepreneur) - Cameroon - focuses on enterprises and initiatives owned or managed by women. Activities fall into 4 categories: Microfinancing; New information and communication technologies; Counselling and the provision of information to members; Training workshops; and Research and consultations. Contact ASAFE [5]

3. African Artisan Village [6] - an example of African
micro-entrepreneurs gaining access to international markets through the Internet.

4. Microcredit Programme [7] - Nigeria - trains rural women in film/video production. The project involves making films in local languages with village theatre groups on topics of community interest. These films will be shown on a TV screen powered by car batteries that is placed on top of the programme's Mobile Community Telecentre (MCT) van on market days. The films will be followed by meetings to discuss issues arising from the films. Contact Fantsuam Foundation [8].

WOMEN

5. Zimbabwe Women's Resource & Network [9] (ZWRN) - offers a programme called Information Services, which includes a documentation centre, an internet cafe, lectures on gender and development, and publications. Publications aim to encourage communication and information exchange between grassroots women and other women's organisations and parliamentarians. Contact [email protected] [10]

6. Enda Synfev [11]: Synergy Gender & Development - West Africa - focuses on women's health and rights in Francophone Africa and the world. The list serve, Femmes-Afrique (in French), circulates news about and for women's health and rights, originating from francophone African groups and the African continent. Further activites include advocacy, lobbying, research, training, and field actions. Contact Synergy [12].

HEALTH

7. ATCnet [13] - Africa - main focus is the building of the ICT infrastructure in Africa through affordable access to computers and the Internet, as well as local communications. Also has an electronic database for the African Health & HIV-AIDS Crisis (HHA). This aims to bring knowledge about HIV/AIDS from the south to the north, as well as from other countries, to facilitate advocacy, policy making, and support. Contact profitinafrica [14] / hivaidsstories [15]

8. Keneya-Blown [16] - Mali - a pilot telemedicine project to network all hospitals and health districts. The site invites users to search for information in categories such as: pharmacies, traditional medicine, current medical events, public health, HIV/AIDS, telemedicine, and tropical medicine. Although physicians are currently the sole users of the site, other health care workers are invited to consult the site and to contribute content. Contact Ousmane Ly [17]

EDUCATION

9. Education & Health Promotion Programme [18] - Nigeria - includes distribution of copies of reproductive health newsletters written by youth in Kampala, Uganda, to secondary school libraries. The project also organises health screening sessions that include group discussions, individual counseling, and treatments. A Mobile Rural Library & ICT Service (MRLIS) works with rural communities to help provide textbooks for their schools and access to information from national, regional, and international sources. Contact Fantsuamfoundation [8]

10. Schoolnet Africa (SNA) - includes centers of technology networked throughout Africa that provide the tools to improve African children's access to technology. They also work to advocate for inexpensive Internet access for schools in Africa. http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv32002/sld-4438.html [19] Contact Ms Shafika Isaacs [20].

11. Knowledge Exchange & Learning Partnerships [21] (KELP) - Africa - working to improve institutions through the integration of instructional technologies into the research, teaching, and learning process and networking centers of learning in Africa and the United States. Contact Dr. Maria Beebe [22].

ACCESS

12. Nakaseke Multipurpose Community Telecentre [23] - Uganda - includes: a library and community information centers; computer applications training programmmes for the community; telephone, fax, e-mail, and internet; educational videos taken to schools and communities, and computers taken to outlying villages; secretarial services; and, indigenous knowledge collection - involving the documentation, storage, packaging and dissemination of local knowledge. Contact Richard Bugembe on nakaseke [24] OR rbugembe [25]

13. Internet Access for Distance Learning Programme [26] - Nigeria - provides affordable Internet access to the Mobile Community Telecentre (MCT). Based in Kunyai, Nigeria, the MCT is a van carrying up to 4 computers to rural communities that lack electricity and phone lines. The programme targets women, girls, secondary school students and teachers, and rural healthcare workers. Contact Fantsuamfoundation [8]

NETWORKING

14. Kabissa [27] - uses technology to strengthen organisations working to improve the lives of people in Africa. Provides internet access, services and training to African non-profits.

15. FEMNET [28] (The African Women's Development & Communication Network) - works to promote networking and enhance women's empowerment through communication and information dissemination.

16. Women's Net [29] - designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.

17. Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) - Eastern Africa - a network of Community Development Workers (CDWs) who are involved in drylands development. ALIN offers field-based trainings focused on basic computer and internet skills and how to operate WorldSpace receivers to access development information. http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv72002/sld-5016.html [30]

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