Africa

African Academy of Sciences
African Academy of Sciences was founded on 6th July 1985 in Trieste, Italy, as an autonomous Africa-wide professional, non-political and non-profit making organisation.

AISA - Africa Institute Of South Africa
The Africa Institute was established in 1960 as an independent, non-profit research organisation. Our focus is primarily on political, socio-economic, international and development issues in contemporary Africa.

Codesria
CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is headquartered in Dakar Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.

Council on Higher Education - CHE
The South African Council on Higher Education (CHE) is an independent statutory body with the responsibility to advise the Minister of Education on all matters related to higher education policy issues and quality assurance within higher education and training.

Polity
Policy, Law, Economics and Politics - Deepening Democracy through Access to Information

Shuttleworth Foundation
The Shuttleworth Foundation not only aims to become part of this energetic force of private sector funding, but also aims to facilitate foreign companies or organisations wishing to assist South African society

The Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)
A non-governmental research organisation established by a deed of trust.

Thutong South African Education Portal
Welcome to the Thutong Portal - delivering information, curriculum and support materials to the South African schooling community!

World Wide

African Studies Association
Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa.

APISA
The Association organizes the biannual congress and sponsors a range of academic and professional activities such as book awards, fellowships, regional and international conferences and workshops, and capacity building.

Creative Commons South Africa
This short clip is an introduction why it is important to develop new approaches to copyright on the Internet. It describes the fictional story of a journalist in Soweto, who decides to use a Creative Commons license to make her stories available for all to freely remix and distribute on the Internet.

iCommons
Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world.

International Development Studies Network
IDSNet was created to enable individuals and organizations to communicate, provide information services and enhance the delivery of International development educational programs in Canada and around the world.

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.

Libre Knowledge
Libre Knowledge is explicit knowledge released in such a way that users are free to read, listen to, watch, or otherwise experience it; to learn from or with it; to copy, adapt and use it for any purpose; and to share derived works similarly (as free knowledge) for the benefit of the community.

National Research Foundation
Supporting and promoting research through funding, human resource development and the provision of the necessary research facilities, in order to facilitate the creation of knowledge, innovation and development in all fields of the natural and social sciences, humanities and technology.

NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies is a Nordic research and service institute with an international mandate and a focus on political, economic, business, social and cultural transformations in modern Asia in their historical contexts.

Policy Pointers
Policypointers is an online facility created to enable those involved in government, academe and the media to gain rapid access to the research and conclusions of think tanks around the world.

Science and Technology Information
Sharing scientific and technical information with you is integral to our mission. We make R&D findings available and useful, so that science and technological creativity can advance. Our innovations and initiatives will accelerate this process.

The Center for Development Research (ZEF)
an international and interdisciplinary academic research institute of the "Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms" University in Bonn, Germany.

The Centre for International Governance Innovation
CIGI strives to find and develop ideas for global change by studying, advising and networking with scholars, practitioners and governments on the character and desired reforms of multilateral governance.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)
As the global advocate on AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response. It is dedicated to preventing the transmission of HIV, reducing the suffering caused by HIV/AIDS and countering the impact of the pandemic on individuals, communities and societies.

World Institute for Developement Economics Research
To undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people.