In charge of organisation-wide IT strategy, including evaluating and implementing Web 2.0 tools and services to meet requirements for team collaboration, e-conferencing, event management, community website, and constituency relationship management.

Managed development and launch of online community website for iScale as part of a major rebranding of the organization.

Stewarded Communications Community of Practice, with a strong emphasis on supporting participants seeking to understand and utilize Web 2.0 and open source. Organized three workshops in Stockholm, Geneva and Bonn in 2007-2008.

Transitioned organization to Google Apps so that geographically dispersed team can access email, chat, contacts and shared calendars online as well as on computers and mobile devices.

Coordinated the change process for transforming oneworld.net into an international network of autonomous centres contributing to a website portal for global justice.

Performed feasibility study in collaboration with the British Council for NigeriaNet, a proto Web 2.0 site for the human rights community in Nigeria. Led NGO consultative forum in Lagos and introduced the project to Lagos-based donors.

Wrote successful funding proposals to the European Commission and the Ford Foundation

Set up resource centre for journalists in the Press Union of Liberia and provided training on the use of computers and the Internet for reporting.

Coordinated and monitored European Commission funded Internet capacity-building project for ten Nigerian human rights groups based in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Abuja and Kaduna.

Evaluated project progress and provided strategic advice on effective use of Internet for networking and information exchange during three two-week visits to all ten groups.

Redesigned the OMCT Website.

Assisted rural non-profit information centre in Moramanga, Madagascar to develop a strategy for joining the Internet and utilising it to serve the village community and environs.

Collaborated with centre staff to create structure and guidelines for a website project.

Promoted the use of Internet to improve exchange of information and experiences in the international network of UNEVOC centres.

Planned, launched and managed specialist e-mail mailing lists, including the UNEVOC eForum which still thrives today.

Developed and implemented strategy for publishing full-text documents on the web and CD-ROM.

Provided Internet strategy consulting for international organisations and NGOs.

A selection of Kabissa projects:

• Transparency International: introduced international nonprofit to Internet through strategy consulting, website development, and training for international partners and staff at the Berlin headquarters.
• Afrovision TV News Exchange: assembled and tested turnkey e-mail systems in cooperation with the NY office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for each of the consortium’s 13 bureaux. Provided support from Washington for hands-on training in Dakar.
• Africare: regularly assembled and tested e-mail software on laptops and trained staff as they prepared to depart for missions throughout Africa. Advised administrators on server operation at headquarters in Washington.

Investigated viability of computer network for news agencies in West Africa.

Introduced Cotonou staff to the Internet and showed them how to operate an online service.

Advised news agencies and newspapers in Nigeria on their networking and computing needs.

Developed and maintained a private e-mail network for field offices in a dozen countries across the African Sahel region.

Provided training and tech support for field officers.