AUTHORS

Neil Butcher <neilshel@icon.co.za> is with the South African Institute for Distance Education, based in Johannesburg (South Africa).

Bob Day <bob.day@csir.co.za> is with the Division of Information and Communications Technology of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, based in Pretoria (South Africa).

Wilstar Makondo Choongo <wchoongo@library.unza.zm> is Acting Readers Service Librarian at the University of Zambia Library.

Murtaza Jaffer <mswahili@nbnet.co.ke> is Director of the Third Sector Governance and Partnership Development Initiative in Kenya.

Nebo Legoabe <nlegoabe@csir.co.za> is with the Division of Information and Communications Technology of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, based in Pretoria (South Africa).

Lydia Levin <lydia@infonation.co.za> is an information management consultant working on development issues in South Africa.

Firoze Manji <firoze@fahamu.org> of Kenya is Director of Fahamu, an organization focusing on NGOs and information and communciation technologies, and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College of the University of Oxford.

Marie-Hélène Mottin-Sylla <mhms@enda.sn> leads the Synergy Gender and Development team, which is part of Environment and Development in the Third World (ENDA), an international NGO based in Senegal.

Emmanuel Njenga Njuguna <njenga@sn.apc.org>, formerly of SANGONet in South Africa, is currently doing postgraduate studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Ruth Ochieng <isis@starcom.co.ug>, Information and Documentation Coordinator for ISIS-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange in Uganda, is a member of the Gender in Africa Information Network (GAIN) Working Group and the Women'sNet Information Strategy Team.

Jenny Radloff <jradloff@humanities.uct.ac.za>, Programme Convener at the African Gender Institute based in Cape Town (South Africa), is a member of the Women'sNet Advisory Board and Information Strategy Team and the Gender in Africa Information Network (GAIN) Working Group.

Théophile Vittin <theophile.vittin@wanadoo.fr> of Benin is Associate Researcher at the Centre d’Etude des Médias of the Université Michel de Montaigne in Bordeaux (France).

Angela Zamaere was with Concern Universal, based in Malawi, at the time she contributed her article.

Voices from Africa no. 9