[kictanet] Fwd: [HacksHackers NBO] RE: AfricanCOMMONS needs you!

[Eric Mugendi]

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From: Kwasi Gachie <kwasi at codeforafrica.org>
Date: 6 December 2017 at 16:18
Subject: [HacksHackers NBO] RE: AfricanCOMMONS needs you!
To: HacksHackers Nairobi <hackshackers-nairobi at googlegroups.com>


Greetings from the Hacks/ Hackers Nairobi Community,

AfricanCOMMONS needs you!

Code for Africa is building an online platform to showcase re-useable Civic
Tech tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them
and we realise the best way to do this is to get your input.
The AfricanCOMMONS project aims to be Africa's premier online hub for open
source tools and organisations from across the continent to showcase their
work in the civic tech space.
Civic software solutions to pressing developmental challenges already exist
elsewhere in the world, and often simply need be customised or adapted to
local requirements.
Locally developed software solutions are also appropriate for reuse
elsewhere on the continent, and the wider world. The challenge is
discovery: end-user organisations and technologists are seldom aware of
existing solutions elsewhere and/or struggle to find credible
recommendations that are sensitive to local operational requirements.

Find out more about what Civic Tech entails and it's growth in Nairobi *here
<https://medium.com/code-for-africa/nairobi-a-civic-tech-metropolis-746e42253254>.*
If you have any projects you are working on or know about that you feel
should be included in our AfricanCOMMONS project please fill in *this
spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GykfqSTxxhXbzszjOrBFuWNruqDXBNiDQNHNpT8Mn4k/edit?usp=sharing>
*with
details about the civic tech initiative and/or organisation.


*AfricanCOMMONS is a joint initiative of *Code for Africa
<https://web.facebook.com/CodeForAfrica/>*, through its local *Code for
Tanzania <https://codefortanzania.org/>* chapter, and the *World Bank*, in
partnership with a coalition of local civil society organisations, with
additional support from the *International Center for Journalists
<http://www.icfj.org/>*(ICFJ).*

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