eRider Starter Kit

eRider Starter Kit directly pulls on the experience and work of eRiders in over 15 countries and 400 organizations. Along with providing methodologies behind setting up eRider projects, the starter kit also provides samples and templates used in existing eRider projects, such as budgets and needs assessments. The kit can be downloaded as a .pdf from here

(from the Tactical Technology Collective).

Citizen Speak

Citizenspeak is a very handy and easy to use website. For all those who don't want to struggle with the infernal listservs and mailman software nightmares.

Who calls the tune in Africa?

Multinational corporations seem to call the tune in Africa. See the Institute for Security Studies' report here.

Do online petitions work?

I'm trying to find out if online petitions that target African policy makers work. I'm thinking more of the viral e-mail campaigns where petitioners seek change by amassing signatures on some critical action and asking politicians to act on the action.

Does anyone have any research or anectodal evidence on how effective this is?