[bestbits] Second African School on IG

Mishi Choudhary mishi at softwarefreedom.org
Tue Nov 18 12:15:35 EST 2014


Perhaps I wasn't clear, I meant the capacity building exercise like the
African School on IG is replicated in other regions.


On 11/18/2014 12:11 PM, Mishi Choudhary wrote:
> Anriette,
>
> Good luck! Real action where its required and not just talk. I wish
> this was replicated in other places .
>
> On 11/18/2014 09:18 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> >
>> Thanks David.. and you will be missed. It was good to have so many
>> people from NCUC there last year. I will also really miss having
>> Carlos Afonso.. the participants really enjoyed learning from the
>> Brazilian experience.
>>
>> On the other hand I am really pleased that we have such a strong
>> contingent of African faculty and resource people joining us this year.
>>
>> We often talk about building capacity in IG, and I generally get
>> irritated when it is used in ways that I find politically patronising
>> (when used as a way of dealing with developing country gripes).
>>
>> We don't spend nearly enough time, either as civil society, or as
>> Africans - in this instance - acknowledging how much capacity we
>> already have.
>>
>> Anriette
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18/11/2014 16:02, David Cake wrote:
>> > I hope it goes well, I very much enjoyed being a very small part of
>> it in 2013.
>>
>> > David
>>
>> > On 18 Nov 2014, at 4:15 pm, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org
>> <mailto:anriette at apc.org>> wrote:
>>
>> >> Dear all
>> >>
>> >> Some of you will be there in person, but for those of you will not
>> be there, you can find out more about the Second African School on IG
>> which will start in Mauritius later this week.
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >>
>> >> Anriette
>> >>
>> >> http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/
>> >>
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