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Ungana-Afrika, Swahili for "connect africa", is a non-governmental organisation based in Pretoria, South Africa that provides a wide range of ICT services for civil society within and outside of Africa. It aims to better empower civil society organisations, networks and related stakeholders, in terms of ICT capacity and resources, so they may more efficiently achieve their unique social missions. Ungana-Afrika's efforts address critical digital divide issues within African civil society (such as the lack of technology capacity and universal access), through the implementation of new support programmes and tools, capacity-building and general research. Though some services are targeted directly to civil society organisations (across sectors), many of Ungana-Afrika's efforts go towards empowering the technology service providers and general Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) networks that jointly serve these organisations. Ungana-Afrika's work has garnered it several awards for community leadership. ==Services and Programs== Ungana-Afrika's work centers around 3 main service areas, each targeted toward a focused group of beneficiaries. All efforts, either directly or indirectly, aim to "empower development organisations to better integrate ICTs as a strategic, mission focused, tool".〔(About Ungana-Afrika - african nonprofit organisation addressing the technology capacity-crisis )〕 These service areas are titled as follows: * Centre of Excellence. This term refers to the ''central'' source of tools and resources that encourage ''excellency'' in technology support efforts. Ungana-Afrika provides program incubation, capacity building and resource development for technology service providers and networks that serve civil society. These beneficiaries may be nonprofit support providers, for-profit small to medium enterprises (SMEs) or related. Service outputs include the creation of public toolkits, resources, trainings and shared support models. * Technology Consulting Partner. Ungana-Afrika delivers technology consultancy and research to the broad ICT4D community. These beneficiaries and partners may include Free and open-source software (FOSS) initiatives, nonprofit and for-profit groups exploring new technologies for developmental applications (such as mobile communications and wireless technologies) and other initiatives addressing barriers of the digital divide. Service outputs include concept research, testing, roll-out support and knowledge dissemination via presentations and trainings. * Regional Support Hub. In addition to supporting the technology support community that serves civil society, Ungana-Afrika provides its own support services directly to non-profit and community service organisations in Southern Africa. These efforts often make use of mobile support models that are designed specifically for civil society beneficiaries, such as eRiding. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ungana-Afrika」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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