Dear Amos, Chibuzo, and All, Hello and thanks for the query! The information about this conference, the ICASA (International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa) is at www.icasa2005.org.ng. There are many groups and individuals going (abt 12,000 delegates from all over the world), and some of them are youth groups, who will be showcasing their "ICTs for HIV/AIDS" projects. No connection to the SA Regulator, I don't believe.
The org. to which Chibuzo is connected--Development Partnership International--is a youth-oriented nonprofit which uses ICTs to address HIV/AIDS and other human-development challenges (www.developmentpartnership.org). They will be at the ICASA, along with ARYI (African Regional Youth Initiative... www.aryi.interconnection.org), TakingITGlobal (www.takingitglobal.org), GYCA (Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS... www.youthaidscoalition.org), Global Youth Action Network (GYAN... www.youthlink.org), and International Students Conference on HIV/AIDS (ISCA... www.isca.org.zm). Other ICTs-related connections to the ICASA are: 1) a joint project called "African Youth HIV/AIDS Best Practices Handbook", in which DPI is a partner, along with my international arts and MDGs coalition, ActALIVE (www.actalive.org) and the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA... www.ifmsa.org), which will debut at the conference with 100 examples of HIV/AIDS best practices, some using ICTs, and 2) the Peace Tiles Project (www.peacetiles.net), about which creator Lars Hasselblad Torres has posted here, which will have at least one and possibly two Peace Tiles murals exhibited at the conference. I worked on both endeavors, and can attest to the fact that we would not have had the success we have achieved in putting these projects together without ICTs, which allowed us to reach out to large numbers of people in Africa and the world over, and jointly create and organize events and activities both local and global. The Peace Tiles project included workshops in about 15 countries, in some cases multiple workshops throughout one country, and mural exhibits for World AIDS Day in India, S. Africa, Switzerland, USA, Kenya, The Gambia, Senegal, and Nigeria. One mural, on a peace-related theme, has been created by children affected by war in Uganda and will be sent to the youth of Darfur, Sudan. Hope some of you will indeed make it to the ICASA (including Amos)! There will also be a CD-ROM of the African Youth Handbook available soon (and hopefully a web presence), which lists some ICTs-and-HIV/AIDS-related activities (and some of these activities are in Ghana...in fact, we have an entry for an org working at the Buduburam Refugee Camp). With thanks and all best wishes, Janet (Feldman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.kaippg.org) > Subject: Re: [DDN] How many will be at ICASA :Nigeria Can you kindly provide detail on the conference? Is it connected to the South African Regulator? Amos Anyimadu [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
