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#AfricansRising #25May2017  #actions& #events in #towns & #villages across the continent & in the Diaspora  #Pamoja #AfricansRising  Pledge your support: #KilimanjaroDeclaration  http://www.africans-rising.org We believe the demands below are broad enough to enable many movements, people and all civil society organisations to use the launch to amplify their ongoing demands and, should not be in isolation to ongoing struggles and campaigns for social, economic, environmental and gender justice.       Expand space for civic and political action Defend civic space and grow public participation in decision-making We demand an end to rigged elections and other electoral injustices Defend democratic space and the rights of citizens to enjoy the freedoms of association, expression and assembly Fight for women’s rights and freedoms across society End gender inequality Stop violence against women and children and LGBTQI p...

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Africans Rising Almost six months ago, representatives of 44 African countries including representatives from  the African diaspora from civil society, trade unions, women, young people, men, people living with disabilities, parliamentarians, media organisations and faith-based groups, from across Africa and the African diaspora gathered in Arusha, Tanzania to give birth to a new pan-African movement. On 25 May 2017 (Africa Liberation Day), this movement – Africans Rising for Peace, Dignity and Justice – will be launched.  http://africans-rising.org/   Our founding Charter, The Kilimanjaro Declaration, resolves that our work should build a local, national, continental and global campaign that is expanding space for civic and political action; fighting for women’s rights and freedoms; focusing our struggles on the right to equality and dignity; demanding good governance as we fight corruption and demanding climate and environmental justice. It is with great ...

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Using ICTs effectively to leverage global communications: the case of public libraries in Zimbabwe By Bhowa tg & Hosea Tokwe The last two decades has seen significant changes in the information and communication technology (ICT) landscape, resulting in a fundamental shift in public library services and skills required of public librarians.   ICTs are becoming more interdisciplinary and interpersonal in nature, requiring a broader range of skills to meet ever changing end user needs.   ICTs have the power to create and deliver public library products and services that are on time, within budget, and of high quality.   The advent of ubiquitous computing and the birth of e-terms such as e-books, e-mail, and e-agriculture are just but small indicators of the degree of change that an information-hungry culture has experienced over the past 20-25 years.   For many public library end users, ICTs are now an enabler, rather than an enigma and has become the ...

Open Source Open Access: a Hot Library Combo As library budgets dwindle at an alarming rate, Librarians are weighing other options to trim down their spending.   One area has been to adopt freely available applications over the more fancied proprietary solutions.   This justifies why my fellow Librarians have become so much interested and excited in learning more about open culture especially open source and open access, which are becoming an indispensible combo for progressive library solutions.   This hot combo may be likened to Siamese twins who need and complement each other in many ways.   What many of my Librarian colleagues’ may not realize is that whilst open applications come without license fees, and will most likely save significant library funds, open culture   is about so much more than a price tag.     In this dialogue I will attempt to provide a brief (and not conclusive) overview of the history and definition of open sourc...