Kabissa, a network of people who are working online and on the ground for positive change in Africa, has recently launched a new website devoted to connecting for Africa.

The inaugural African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM) closed its call for proposals and has exceeded expectations by collecting 733 business proposals.

Come to Kelele, the first annual African Bloggers conference in Nairobi, Kenya October 29th-November 1st 2009. Kelele will be held in a diffrent African City each year and organized by a local committee. This year, the theam is "Beat Your Drum".

Enter Africa Rural Connect, and join Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, members of the Diaspora community, and Africans on the ground to collaborate on the best new ideas for agricultural development in Africa.

The sign of success in foreign assistance is that “We are partners in building capacity for transformational change,” President Obama said in a recent speech in Ghana.

“Africa’s future is up to Africans,” he said.

Maker Faire Africa (MFA), a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 14-16 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. This event is free to the general public.

On May 26, the Global Development Commons team participated in the inagural meeting of the IntraHealth OPEN Council-- a team of advocates for building capacity in African healthcare workforces and systems through

Ushahidi, which means "testimony" in Swahili, is a website built in the aftermath of the Kenyan 2008 elections to map reports of violence.

The Full Belly Project’s mission is to design and distribute income-generating agricultural devices to improve life in developing countries through innovation and invention in design and construction, through partnership with local entrepreneurs, education and outreach.

PEPFAR’S Phones for Health initiative works to develop ICT and mobile technology solutions to health groups and government actors working on public health challenges. Mobile phone technology can enable great advances in dealing with health challenges by improving data sharing and making information easily and readily available to program managers and health care service providing working and living in remote locations.