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Current Projects
Community ICT access initiatives: Informing the donor programme of the Open Society Initiative - South Africa
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E-waste: Developing a discussion document on electronic waste for the Association for Progressive Communications
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CATIA: Report on the impact of project components on media coverage of ICTS in Africa
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Communicating the Arts: Monitoring arts coverage in South Africa's mass media, in partnership with the Media Monitoring Project
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OSISA-supported Open Source portal for NGOs: an online information resource for southern Africa, in partnership with Tectonic More >>

Previous Projects
Community ICT access initiatives: Potential strategic interventions
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CATIA: TCO comparison between new and refurbished PCs in delivering ICTs to Africa
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itrainonline: module development: "An introduction to basic research methods", developed for the Association for Progressive Communications

South African Media Audit - HIV/AIDS: Wide-ranging communications audit conducted for the Panos Institute and John Hopkins University
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Highway Africa: Facilitating the participation of Civil Society Organisations on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
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Gavin Dudley


[Open Research projects:   CATIA    Open Source Africa   Community ICT Access Initiatives]

Gavin Dudley, who operates as Index Media, has done equal parts duty as a writer, editor and new media technologist.

Index Media has been involved in various public sector projects including research for the CPSI study on mobile technology and the operation of the official web site for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

A self-styled media analyst he started a career in marketing and project management, migrated to digital multimedia production and web development, serving finally as the editor for PCReview, a computing supplement in the Mail&Guardian newspaper.

He has been the IT manager for two Internet publishing companies and was a part of the Loerie award-winning team to make the Mail&Guardian the first African newspaper on the Internet in 1996. More recently he has been a features writer, news reporter, product reviewer and columnist for ITWeb.co.za and Brainstorm magazine.

Aside from an active interest in mobile technologies and global IT politics he has also developed an obsession with media analysis and popular culture.