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Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 9, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
186 [3]
Article-Summary: 

"Increasingly, African NGOs are networking with the aim to achieve common goals. As Mark Surman and Katherine Reilly argue in "Appropriating Internet for Change", the broad majority of civil society organizations are struggling with the issue of how to increase the impact of campaigns, projects and programs using networked technologies. This also applies to African networks, which are involved in transnational advocacy. This paper relates to African organizations and networks, which work to...read more [4]

"Increasingly, African NGOs are networking with the aim to achieve common goals. As Mark Surman and Katherine Reilly argue in "Appropriating Internet for Change", the broad majority of civil society organizations are struggling with the issue of how to increase the impact of campaigns, projects and programs using networked technologies. This also applies to African networks, which are involved in transnational advocacy. This paper relates to African organizations and networks, which work together on issues beyond their national borders. We focus here on online collaboration between national organizations, which form a network to advocate at the regional and international level."

Category: 
Advocacy & Campaigns [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/26011 [6]

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