Archive for the 'development' Category
It is a worrying phenomenon for the research community that research is apparently being put on hold to fund the World Cup, especially given the already dampened global economic climate.
An article by Cornia Pretorius in the July edition of the Mail and Gaurdian’s Higher Learning supplement, states: “The National Research Foundation (NRF) recently canned a [...]
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Tags: 2010, 2010 Fifa World Cup, 2010 World Cup, academics, budget, developmental state, economy, Higher Learning, job creation, legislation, Mail and Gaurdian, National Research Foundation, NRF, Policy, publich funds, recession, Research, researchers, South Africa, Spain
If you still think that FLOSS is just something you do after you have brushed your teeth, you have not yet joined the ranks of those realising the benefits and potencial of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).
“Free” means the software gives you “freedom”, but it is not necessarily always cost free. With FLOSS [...]
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Tags: CBO, Community Based Organisations, DEVELOPMENT WORKS, education, Entrepreneur, FLOSS, FLOSSnet, Free, Free Libre and Open Source Software, Free Software Foundation, Free Software Movement, freedom, Government, Joomla, Libre, NGO, Non-governmental organisations, Open Source, Open Source Software, OSS, proprietary software, Small Business, Software, source code, Websites
this moment of opportunity
Trey Smith, a researcher from South Carolina, is currently interning at DEVELOPMENT WORKS and shares his views on the news of Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee…
I can remember sitting in history class and hearing the common refrain from teachers and professors; “This was a watershed moment in the history of humankind.”
Watershed moments [...]
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Tags: change, Democrat, Obama, presidential nominee
In January 2008, the South African Arts Symposium was hosted by the John F. Kennedy Center Institute for Arts Management in Cape Town, South Africa. Sianne Alves from DEVELOPMENT WORKS attended and gained much knowledge on how to build the arts sector.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the [...]
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dialogue with donors?
Many of the enquiries we receive at DEVELOPMENT WORKS are for assistance with fundraising. We are constantly reminded that the search for funding is an ongoing and pressing challenge for NGOs and CBOs operating in South Africa. No doubt this same challenge also affects nonprofits in other countries.
The recent International Fundraising Congress [...]
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