<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kwasi Gachie</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwasi@codeforafrica.org">kwasi@codeforafrica.org</a>></span><br>Date: 6 December 2017 at 16:18<br>Subject: [HacksHackers NBO] RE: AfricanCOMMONS needs you!<br>To: HacksHackers Nairobi <<a href="mailto:hackshackers-nairobi@googlegroups.com">hackshackers-nairobi@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">Greetings from the Hacks/ Hackers Nairobi Community,</font><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">AfricanCOMMONS needs you!</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2" color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Code for Africa is building an online<span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1;letter-spacing:-0.063px"> </span><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1;letter-spacing:-0.063px">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.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.063px">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.</span></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.063px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Civic software solutions to pressing developmental challenges already exist elsewhere in the world, and often simply need be customised or adapted to local requirements.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.063px">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.</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.063px"><br></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing:-0.063px"><font color="#000000">Find out more about what Civic Tech entails and it's growth in Nairobi </font><font color="#0000ff"><b><u><a href="https://medium.com/code-for-africa/nairobi-a-civic-tech-metropolis-746e42253254" target="_blank">here</a>.</u></b></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em">If you have any projects you are working on or know about that you feel should be included in our </span><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--h3-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">AfricanCOMMONS</span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em"> </span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em">project please fill in</span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em"> </span><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GykfqSTxxhXbzszjOrBFuWNruqDXBNiDQNHNpT8Mn4k/edit?usp=sharing" class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--anchor m_-6098084164501110262markup--h3-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" style="letter-spacing:-0.015em;background-color:transparent;background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.84),rgba(0,0,0,0.84));background-repeat:repeat-x;background-size:2px 0.115em;background-position:0px 1.05em" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--h3-strong">this spreadsheet</span></a><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--h3-strong" style="letter-spacing:-0.015em"> </span></font></b><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.015em">with details about the civic tech initiative and/or organisation.</span></div><div><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1"><br></em></div><div><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1"><br></em></div><div><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">AfricanCOMMONS is a joint initiative of </em><a href="https://web.facebook.com/CodeForAfrica/" class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--anchor m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color:transparent;letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;color:inherit;background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.68) 50%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 50%);background-repeat:repeat-x;background-size:2px 0.1em;background-position:0px 1.07em" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-strong" style="font-weight:700">Code for Africa</span></a><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">, through its local </em><a href="https://codefortanzania.org/" class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--anchor m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color:transparent;letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;color:inherit;background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.68) 50%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 50%);background-repeat:repeat-x;background-size:2px 0.1em;background-position:0px 1.07em" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-strong" style="font-weight:700">Code for Tanzania</span></a><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1"> chapter, and the </em><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-strong" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-weight:700">World Bank</span><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">, in partnership with a coalition of local civil society organisations, with additional support from the </em><a href="http://www.icfj.org/" class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--anchor m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color:transparent;letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;color:inherit;background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(0,0,0,0.68) 50%,rgba(0,0,0,0) 50%);background-repeat:repeat-x;background-size:2px 0.1em;background-position:0px 1.07em" target="_blank"><span class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--strong m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-strong" style="font-weight:700">International Center for Journalists</span></a><em class="m_-6098084164501110262markup--em m_-6098084164501110262markup--p-em" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.84);letter-spacing:-0.003em;text-align:center;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'salt' 1">(ICFJ).</em></div></span></font></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">

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