Fahamu is a not-for-profit organisation committed to serving the needs of organisations and social movements that inspire progressive social change and promote and protect human rights. It has played a pioneering role in using new information and communication technologies to support capacity building and networking between civil society and human rights organisations. Fahamu has offices in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Senegal and Kenya. Fahamu's core tools to build capacity and engage civil and human rights organisations are the publication of ''
Pambazuka News
''Pambazuka News'' is an open access, Pan-African e-mail and online electronic newsletter. It is published weekly in English, Portuguese and French by the not-for-profit organisation Fahamu. The word ''Pambazuka'' means "dawn" or "arise" in Kiswah ...
'' (on-line news and interaction on social justice and development), on-line distance learning courses on human rights and social justice and the application of new technologies such as
SMS
Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...
for information dissemination, lobbying and interaction purposes.
Details
Fahamu was established in the United Kingdom in 1997. Fahamu Ltd was registered and incorporated as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in 2001 (no. 4241054). Fahamu Ltd is registered in
Kenya
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as F15/2006. Fahamu Trust was registered as a charity in the UK (no. 1100304) in July 2003, with the following objectives: "the advancement of education of the public worldwide by the publication of electronic newsletters, courses and disseminating of information on human rights". Fahamu SA is registered as a trust in South Africa IT 37201. To enable supporters in the US to contribute to Fahamu's work, Fahamu was established in 2005 as a Global Support Fund of the Tides Foundation, a duly registered public charity, exempt from US Federal income taxation under Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.
History
1997–2000
Fahamu was founded, as the Oxford Learning Space, in the year 1997 by
Firoze Manji
Firoze Madatally Manji (born 1950) is a Kenyan activist with more than 40 years’ experience in international development, health, human rights, teaching, publishing and political organizing.
He is the recipient of the 202
Background
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, one of the many exiled Kenyan multiparty democracy and social justice activists of the early 90s, as a response that sought to address social justice and civil freedoms issues with a particular focus on the African continent. The Oxford Learning Space Ltd as an organization initially operated from Manji's home at the time.
''Pambazuka News'', a newsletter distributed every week by email, was launched in 2000. It provided a platform for discussion and exchange of information on social justice in Africa. ''Pambazuka'' was meeting the information need, where it provided alternative media that informed concerned citizens and civil society organisations, which at the time had limited access to the Internet.
''Pambazuka News'' would come to be recognised as a platform that carries editorial, analysis and opinion pieces, as well as summaries of websites and opinion pieces on human rights, conflict, refugees, gender and culture in Africa. Most of ''Pambazuka''s writing has come from within Africa.
The Oxford Learning Space as it were, would hence grow to offer basic tools for social justice work; these initially took the form of online courses and on CD-ROM and Social Justice News.
2001–2004
In the year 2001, the Adilisha Project was launched with financial support from
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...
, the British
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(DFID), and the Canadian International Development Research Centre Development (IDRC). The grant from the EC was awarded to the University of Oxford while the grants from DFID and the IDRC were awarded to Fahamu. The objective of the project was to strengthen the campaigning, organisational and management capabilities of human rights organisations. Specifically, the project sought to build the capacity of human rights organisations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region.
The project had seven training modules: Fact-finding and Investigation; Leadership and Management; Campaigning and Advocacy; Financial Management; Use of the Internet; Introduction to Human Rights and Monitoring and Reporting on Human Rights Violations.
In May 2002 Fahamu South Africa Trust was established in Durban, South Africa. The Trustees were Firoze Manji, Vinesh Anil Naidoo and Shereen Karmali. Vinesh Anil Naidoo (VAN) was also the executive director.
In July 2003, Fahamu Trust was registered in the United Kingdom as a charity No. 1100304. On the Board of Trustees were: Belinda Allan (founding member of Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Paddy Coulter (Director of studies, Reuters Institute), Shereen Karmali (editor and governor
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic (United Kingdom), Polytechnic) is a public university, public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and High ...
), Colin Burton (chartered accountant) and Firoze Manji (executive director).
In May 2004 Fahamu joined the steering committee of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights (
SOAWR
Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) is a coalition of 63 civil society organisations working across 32 African countries to protect women's rights. Established in 2004, SOAWR works to protect the rights of girls and women as articulated ...
) coalition and offered ''Pambazuka News'' pages and technological support to the coalition to raise public awareness about the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's on the Rights of Women in Africa. Fahamu contributed to SOAWR's efforts of persuading governments to ratify that
African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the Africa ...
protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. Several special issues were published and used as advocacy tools including during African Union summits in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia . Fahamu also set up a website for the coalition and developed the facility for people to support the protocol using mobile text messaging (SMS).
Fahamu has been recognised as being at the forefront of e-advocacy not only in African but globally, Fahamu's cell phone campaigns have attracted wide attention in technology circles and among activists who run their advocacy using emerging technology in social justice work. Text messaging campaigns have particularly been successful with the wide spread of cellular technology on the continent.
Fahamu would in the same year receive a Community award for innovations in the use of SMS for advocacy work from AOL, the leading online interactive services provider to the UK, with more than 2.3 million members.
In December 2004 Fahamu would sign an agreement with the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for development of material – CDROMs – on Prevention of Torture and Conflict Prevention with future translations into French, Spanish and Russian. This was done in collaboration with United Nations System Staff College, Association for the Prevention of Torture and the University of Oxford. This material was intended to strengthen the capacity of National Human Rights Institutions.
2005–2008
In the year 2005, Fahamu's main focus was still on social justice news dissemination and the Fahamu courses in conjunction with University of Oxford's distant learning summer programs. The courses were put together with the assistance of experts in the
human rights
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field and consultants from the
University of Oxford
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. At this period Fahamu had created a unique niche and was well known for its online courses for
Non Governmental Organisation
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...
institutions and organizations dealing with Human Rights and related material.
In the year 2005 Fahamu had 12 staff members worldwide, 5 volunteers and 1 intern. Outside the United Kingdom office were: Patrick Burnett in South Africa, Online News Editor ''Pambazuka News''; Stella Chege, Project Worker, Kenya (there was no physical address at the time); Sokari Ekine, African Blogs Editor, ''Pambazuka News''; Anil Naidoo, Director Fahamu SA; Atieno Ndomo, Regional Correspondent, ''Pambazuka News''.
In May 2005 Fahamu's African Union Monitor was established.
The AU monitor website and associated mailing list aimed to strengthen the ability of civil society organisations to engage constructively with the African Union to promote justice, equity and accountability. The website would give African CSOs a platform on which they could engage constructively with the AU and its organs from a well-informed point.
''Pambazuka News'', over this period, experienced a substantial growth in its readership reaching an estimated 100,000 people in African and beyond becoming effectively the leading forum for human rights defenders and others working on social justice in Africa.
2005 would also see Fahamu's first book publication ''African Voices on Development and Social: editorials from Pambazuka News 2004'', by Firoze Manji and Patrick Burnett.
The Fahamu SA Trust office closed in October 2005 due to shortage of funds. Consequently, VAN's tenure as executive director ended. VAN, would however, continue as a Trustee of Fahamu SA.Fahamu SA would go on to move to a new address in Cape Town, in ''Pambazuka News'' and Information Coordinator's home; Patrick Burnett's home address.
Stella Chege, Kenyan project worker, would establish the Nairobi office in 2006. Stella had met Firoze Manji, the founder, while undertaking her master's studies in the UK. She was a volunteer with the Fahamu UK office then. She expressed her desire to return home to Kenya and thus initiated the plan for finally actualizing a Fahamu Nairobi office. Stella Chege did the scouting and worked out the formalities of starting a Fahamu office in Nairobi when she came to Kenya. Fahamu was registered in Nairobi in 2006.
On the tail end of the year, the Nairobi office would explore its mandate in the region with a keen interest in working with
Social Movements
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a Social issue, social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of Group ...
. The model at this point was training of trainers. This would also include capacity building of community leaders involved in the fields of
advocacy
Advocacy is an Action (philosophy), activity by an individual or advocacy group, group that aims to influence decision making, decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to infl ...
and
human rights
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. In some instances the training and courses were ad hoc based.
In Nairobi, 2007 was the year that Fahamo, away from a period-based organization, began its structure with the introduction of the AU monitoring program as a result of Fahamo being part of the SOAWR network. The mission of the AU Fahamu observer was to analyze the actions and activities of the African Union and to disseminate these analyzes as degraded consumer information.
In this same year the strategy of Fahamu in the African continent and abroad was considered. Fahamu would seek to expand its presence in Africa.
Fahamu Nairobi's initial project with the African
grassroots
A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement. Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to effect change at t ...
constituent involved the hosting of West African Women community groups attending the
World Social Forum
The World Social Forum (WSF, pt, Fórum Social Mundial ) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to develop an alternative future through the championing of counter-hegemoni ...
in Nairobi in 2007. Yves Niyiragira and Winnie Kariuki would render their time as volunteers helping Stella with logistics and other particulars leading up to the World Social Forum.
During this period at the WSF, Fahamu Nairobi was launching its first of the series on China in Africa books. Publishing and press was all done in the UK office, Oxford Cornmarket Street. Fahamu Oxford was mostly dealing with press at the time, Pambazuka and the Fahamu online courses.
The courses were marketed in Nairobi where institutions and
civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.[Dakar
Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...]
office was mostly engaged in the production of the French version of ''Pambazuka News''. It was up until 2010 that "We are the Solution", grassroots women's
food sovereignty
Food sovereignty is a food system in which the people who produce, distribute, and consume food also control the mechanisms and policies of food production and distribution. This stands in contrast to the present corporate food regime, in which ...
project was started in Dakar.
In 2007 going into 2008 Fahamu was able to offer scholarships for some of its online courses through a grant to about 30 participants.
Initially, the Fahamu Nairobi offices were in Shelter Afrique, Mamlaka Road and later moved to Peponi Plaza Westlands where they have been to this very day.
Hakima Abbas
Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, feminist activist, writer and researcher. She is currently co-executive director of Association for Women's Rights in Development. During the COVID-19 pandemic she advocated for a Just Recovery that includes ...
joined Stella and Winnie in the Nairobi office in 2007 from Witness in New York; she had also participated in the Mobile Tool Kit workshop as one of the facilitators. Hakima would work on the AU monitor together with Yves.
Fahamu's engagement with grassroots movements expanded with the Leadership and Management course for rural women through the Maendelo ya Wanawake and Hakima's AU Monitor that had successfully created an interactive platform with Bunge La Mwananchi movement and other grassroots activists. With Alice Nderitu as the Education for Social Justice director, there was a project for community training on Leadership, Communication and Advocacy hosted by the Centre for Multiparty Democracy, the activist Rachel Kabeberi hosted this.
In 2008, Fahamu was still doing courses in the process of programme expansions (There was a move to promote residential courses in 2008). These programmes would later grow to be defined as the Fahamu Pillars.
Fahamu's work would intensify continentally. Besides working with ''Pambazuka News'', the South African office would also play an integral role in the Emerging Powers programme. It was at this time that Fahamu projects would take clearly defined shapes into thematic programmes and would fully be established into pillars by 2010 into what they recognizably are today.
Fahamu also experienced an expansion of staff with the growing programmes.
Education for Social Justice was then ran by Adilisha's Alice Nderitu, AU projects received funding and took flight; Yves was working with other regional partners like Trust Africa and Heinrich Boll Foundation along the AU lines.
2009–2012
Over the 2009 and 2010, Fahamu started undergoing some funding strategy restructuring process. The conversation in 2009 was around the idea of sustainable and successful handing over of oversight and general organisational direction of the organisation to African nationals.
The concept of having a senior management team who would collectively decide the organisation's direction was carried on having the Editor in Chief of ''Pambazuka News'', Director of Tuliwaza, Finance Director as well as the executive director as part of the senior management.
It was established by the senior management that the organization needed to find some type of financial independence. Firoze Manji, then the executive director, was of the impression that the organisation needed to focus more on creating a business model where the sale of books, news material and advertising space would be the key sources of income.
Firoze Manji resigned form the directorship position and continued serving the organisation in the capacity of Editor in Chief of ''Pambazuka News''. Rebecca Williams (then Finance Director) would become the interim executive director based in Oxford and Hakima Abbas was her deputy (based in Nairobi, Kenya). Hakima Abbas would later take up the executive director position and was the first director to base their operations from the Nairobi office. She would later (2011) be based in Dakar's Fahamu offices.
George Mwai had launched Adilisha's Fellowship Programme earlier in 2011; having taken over from Alice Nderitu.
The programmatic definitions into pillars came about during Hakima Abbas's deputy ED tenure where the different projects and areas of concerns where grouped and under defined themes of concern.
Mission statement
Fahamu supports the strengthening of human rights and
social justice
Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fu ...
movements by:
* promoting innovative use of information and communications technologies
* stimulating debate, discussion and analyses
* publishing news and information
* developing and delivering educational courses, including by distance learning.
Strategy
Fahamu's strategy over the coming years is to:
* expand the forum for human rights and social justice in Africa
* expand public awareness of human rights
* strengthen civil society organisations
* root Fahamu in Africa.
Communications and education
In the 17 years of its existence, Fahamu has made a significant contribution to media and freedom of expression in Africa, using information and communications technologies.
Newsletters
Fahamu's flagship publication, ''
Pambazuka News
''Pambazuka News'' is an open access, Pan-African e-mail and online electronic newsletter. It is published weekly in English, Portuguese and French by the not-for-profit organisation Fahamu. The word ''Pambazuka'' means "dawn" or "arise" in Kiswah ...
'', an open-access, pan-African email and online newsletter with English, French and Portuguese editions, some 15,000 subscribers and an estimated weekly readership of around 500,000, is generated predominantly in Africa. The 300th issue was published in 2007.
Pambazuka broadcasts feature audio and visual content with commentary and debate from social justice movements across the continent.
Fahamu produces a series of special reports, some of which are published in ''Pambazuka News'', and some of which are made available as separate downloadable documents from the Pambazuka website.
In May 2005, Fahamu established the African Union Monitor. This website and associated electronic mailing list aims to strengthen the ability of civil society organisations to engage constructively with the
African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the Africa ...
(AU) and its organs in the interests of promoting justice, equity and accountability through the provision of high-quality and timely information.
Fahamu Books and Pambazuka Press
With bases in
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...
,
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
,
Dakar
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, and
Oxford
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, Pambazuka Press (formerly Fahamu Books) publishes a growing list of book titles on human rights, social justice, politics and advocacy in Africa, written by well-known African academics, public intellectuals and activists.
Fahamu also publish training materials on CD-ROMs to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations in Africa to promote and protect human rights and to help them become sustainable and effective organisations.
A number of these CD-ROMs are also available as tutored, online courses from Fahamu.
In publishing, Fahamu has partnered with
Food First
Food First, also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy, is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, USA. Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, it describes itself as a "people's think tank and ...
, Grassroots International,
Focus on the Global South
Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to:
Arts
* Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film
*''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore
* ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...
, Mkuki na nyota, Oozebap, the
South Centre and
SOAWR
Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) is a coalition of 63 civil society organisations working across 32 African countries to protect women's rights. Established in 2004, SOAWR works to protect the rights of girls and women as articulated ...
.
Selected titles
* ''No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way'', by the
Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers
Symphony Way Informal Settlement was a small community of pavement dwellers (shack dwellers who live on the pavement) that lived on Symphony Way, a main road in Delft, South Africa, from February 2008 until late 2009. They were a group of famili ...
– 2011
* ''Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa'', Axel Harneit-Sievers, Stephen Marks, Sanusha Naidu (eds) – 2010
* ''SMS Uprisings: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa'', Sokari Ekine (ed.) – 2010
* ''The Crash of International Finance-Capital and its Implications for the Third World'', Dani Wadada Nabudere – 2009
* ''Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser?'' Hakima Abbas, Yves Niyiragira (eds) – 2009
* ''Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice'',
Eric Holt Giménez
Eric Holt Giménez is an agroecologist, political economist, lecturer and author. From 1975 to 2002 he worked in Mexico, Central America and South Africa in sustainable agricultural development. During this time he helped to start the Campesino a ...
,
Raj Patel
Rajeev "Raj" Patel (born 1972) is a British Indian academic, journalist, activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the United States for extended periods. He has been referred to as "the rock star of social ju ...
– 2009
* ''Where is Uhuru? Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa'',
Issa G. Shivji
Issa Gulamhussein Shivji (born 1946) is a Tanzanian author and academic, and one of Africa's leading experts on law and development issues. He has taught and worked in universities all over the world. He is a prolific writer and researcher, produc ...
– 2009
* ''Ending Aid Dependence'',
Yash Tandon
Yashpal Tandon (born 21 June 1939) is a Ugandan policymaker, political activist, professor, author and public intellectual. He has lectured extensively in the areas of International Relations and Political economy. He was deeply involved in the s ...
– 2008
* ''China's New Role in Africa and the South'', Dorothy Guerrero, Firoze Manji (eds) – 2008
* ''Africa's Long Road to Rights/ Long trajet de l’Afrique vers les Droits'', Hakima Abbas (ed) – 2008
* ''Silences in NGO Discourse: The Role and Future of NGOs in Africa'', Issa G. Shivji – 2007
Fahamu courses
As part of its mission to build the capacity of African human rights and social justice movements, Fahamu develops training materials and runs courses, including by distance learning.
Fahamu provides training to strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations in Africa to promote and protect human rights and to help them become sustainable and effective organisations.
In the teaching of courses, Fahamu works with, amongst others, the
University of Oxford
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, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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and
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...
.
Advocacy
Fahamu joined the Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR), a coalition of 30 women's and international organisations, in 2004 to promote the ratification of the African Union's Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. Fahamu offered the pages of ''Pambazuka News'' and technological support to the coalition to raise public awareness about the protocol across the continent and to help women bring pressure on their governments to adopt the protocol. Within 15 months, the campaign had succeeded: 15 countries had ratified the protocol, enabling it to come into force across Africa.
As Kenya was plunged into violence following the contested elections in December 2007, Fahamu sought to support independent, progressive voices in Kenya. Fahamu became actively engaged in the Kenyans for Peace through Truth and Justice coalition. In particular, Fahamu-Kenya became involved in the Direct Action Training workshops initiated by activist and artist Shailja Patel in April 2008. With the support of a
New Tactics in Human Rights grant, Fahamu-Kenya is now collaborating with Bunge la Mwananchi (the people's parliament) to train grassroots activists on effective advocacy with the aim of supporting them to lead similar workshops in local communities.
In collaboration with the African Women's Development and Communication Network (
FEMNET
FEMNET, also called the African Women's Development and Communication Network, is an organization established in 1988 to promote women's development in Africa.
FEMNET helps non-government organizations share information and approaches on women's ...
), Fahamu has established a collaborative network of community radio stations, radio journalists and cartoonists to develop a range of radio plays, current affairs broadcasts and the publication of cartoon books on the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, which will be disseminated in west and east Africa (in the first instance).
Fahamu has used innovative technologies, including SMS (text messaging by mobile phone) as a means of promoting public awareness of social justice issues in Africa. The use of these technologies has been particularly appropriate given the spread of mobile technology on the African continent and the fact that, as communications devices, they have leapfrogged non-existent telephony infrastructure, opening up the potential for communicating with new audiences.
Awards
*
PoliticsOnline
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Biography
Growing up in Anniston, Alabama, Noble's father, J. Phillips Noble, a Presbyterian minister, w ...
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (voted one of the top ten websites in the annual 'Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics')
*
Tech Museum Award 2005 (Fahamu was one of five Tech Laureates in the Microsoft Education category.)
* Highway Africa 2005 (''Pambazuka News'' won the non-profit category for the innovative use of new media.)
*
GenARDIS
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of organizations that was founded in 1990 to provide communication infrastructure, including Internet-based applications, to groups and individuals who work for peace ...
2005 (Fahamu South Africa was one of the 10 winners of the Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society (GenARDIS) Award.)
*
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...
Awards 2005 (honorary mention)
*
AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo (2017â ...
Innovations in the community Award 2004
* Stockholm Challenge 2004 (runner up for the development of distance learning courses for human rights organisations.)
Partners
References
External links
*
Fahamu Books Website*
Pambazuka News'
Fahamuat
SourceWatch
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History
CMD was founded in 1993 by progr ...
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Social welfare charities based in the United Kingdom
Foreign charities operating in South Africa
Foreign charities operating in Kenya
Human rights organisations based in the United Kingdom