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And so it ends!  One of the most amazing experience I have had this year.  

The participants in the digital story track successfully completed their stories.  They were all so beautiful even though they had little time to produce them. 

Today is the second of the Feminist Tech Exchange taking place in Cape Town at Monkey Valley.  Different amazing women from all over the world have all gathered here to learn more about the linkage between information communication technologies and women's rights.

Gender Links hosted "Strategic Communications on National Action Plans to End Gender Violence and IT capacity building workshop" on the 6 & 7 October 2008.  The purpose of the workshop was to:

• To develop a targeted communications strategy for 16 Days of Activism.
• Use the 16 Days of Activism Campaign to leverage the 365 Day Action Plan.

Keba, Lebo and I are facilitating computer training at the South African Women In Dialogue forum (SAWID).  The forum is held at the Birch Wood Hotel in Boksburg.

 

Yesterday Vodacom launched three new speaking phones for the disabled.  The launch formed part of Vodacom's 2008 disability campaign which aims to make technology more accessible to people with specific needs.

Karen Smit, Vodacom's senior specialist together with her team is responsible for the campaign.  Being differently abled herself, she said: "gender or race cannot be changed but your ability can be changed".  Karen also spoke about the need to democratize ICTs in order to allow minority groups such as the disabled to participate in the economy.

On Monday I attended the ANC Women’s League Gauteng policy review workshop.  The purpose of the workshop was to “review the implementation of the ANC policies in government and in general with regard to women”.

Monday the 25^th of August I attended the One in Nine general elections strategy meeting in Cape Town.  The purpose of the meeting was to come up with suggestions on how One in Nine would examine the elections set for April 2009 and to propose different activities. 

The One in Nine campaign was established in 2006 as a result of the Jacob Zuma rape case. The women (and men) involved in the campaign sang daily outside of court during the trial showing their solidarity to Khwezi.

 Today Women'sNet is working with partner organisations in South Africa to bring together an initial group of activists and organisations to build their capacity to develop media products. The capacity building takes the form of a hands-on technical skills training on using the technology tools to produce media products as well as raising awareness about the concepts and use of citizen media as part of development practice. This blog is a space for this capacity building and sharing idea, opinions and news.