As the African Commons Project team says goodbye to iCommons, we publish the beautiful video of our awesome final project, iSummit ‘08 in Sapporo, Japan. The last two years has been an awesome experience, and we’ve all learned so much, but are really looking forward to dedicating our efforts towards empowering local communities in South [...]

The 10th of November commemorated the first Wikipedia Academy held a year ago, an event that aimed to stimulate awareness and foster a community around local language Wikipedias in South Africa. Organised by the TACP team, the workshop was attended by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and was run by a group of dedicated [...]

In the last month, the team at African Commons has developed two proposals for innovative use of new media tools to serve different communities in South Africa.
The first is called The Jozi Learning Network - a project using mobile phones to connect people who want to learn with people who want to teach. A mixture [...]

Throughout 2008, The African Commons Project has been working in conjunction with the Shuttleworth Foundation in Cape Town, on the Open Copyright Review. The review was a project that aimed to engage civil society and ordinary South Africans in a review of how they understand copyright, and how South African copyright law affects them and [...]

With December quickly approaching, the girls at TACP are busy planning a wide-array of exciting projects to be launched in the new year. Among these projects, we will be hosting two fabulous events, including another Innovation Series and a brand new music remix competition called Your Big Break. We’re still working to finalise the details [...]