The LHRC website has been developed by LHRC in cooperation with MS Tanzania.

As part of the democracy focus in MS Tanzanias Country Programme Strategy, and after several requests from local partners, MS Tanzania has assisted a growing number of local organisations developing more transparency by using their websites in a more active manner.

The process has been to take the responsibility of managing the websites away from privete companies (typically the organisations ISP) and give it back to the organisations. Through training MS has introduced systems for updating sites without prior knowledge of IT, html or webmanagement.

The software used is Joomla, a free, open source content management system. Joomla is used globally and supported by numerous foras online. It is module based and template based, which makes it easy to mold the system and the design to fit the particular needs of a given organisation.

Read more about Joomla on www.joomla.com

The anchor person in this process is Jesper Guhle Mogensen, IT adviser for MS Tanzania. Jesper is the one developing the sites and training the local organisations. For more information about the project contact jesper on email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit his joomla blog: http://www.guhle.typepad.com/joomla_kabisa/