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About Citizen Journalism Project

 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.

Computer Training at SAWID

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 12:43

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.

 

The Female Condom around for over a decade

Submitted by Faith on Wed, 01/10/2008 - 17:20

The 10 & 11th of September Dialogues on the "Universal Access To Female Condom... A Human Rights Issue" took place. The event was successfully hosted by the Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme or the TVEP (www.ahumanrightsissue.blogspot.com) and attended by many organisations and political affiliates, however with little key Government representation. During the sessions, presentations were given on studies reporting on how the female condom is an effective prevention method against STIs and HIV/AIDS.

Achieving millenium development goals

Submitted by bryne on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 17:25
My expectations and efforts as a youth

Gender and Diversity Seminar

Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Tue, 23/09/2008 - 09:19
On the 10th of September, I attended the Gender and Diversity seminar hosted by Constitution Hill at the Women's Gaol Lekgotla Space. The seminar, themed: "Sexuality Towards a Democratic South Africa" was attended by various representatives from lesbian gay bisexual trangernder and intersex (LGBTI) organizations.

Tips to promote the new website of WN

Submitted by typhanie on Mon, 22/09/2008 - 18:57
Congratulations to all WN staff for this beautiful new website... I wish it will be seen a lot and updated often. Regarding promotion, I gathered some info that I would like to share with you... cause a website is like a video, there is no need for it to stay on the shelf, it has to be seen and promoted!!! Every successful website has target audience that makes them grow, some examples: - MySpace - target audience was English speaking U.S. teens/pre-teens - now going global and opening up to more general population.

waiting for the queer sarajevo festival to happend

Submitted by vale on Fri, 19/09/2008 - 14:26
Dear friends, all back to your towns, countries, continents, I want to tell u how happy I was having the chance to realize together with u my first digital story workshop and to have together with you started a western balkan network or a southeast europe network. I need also to know that you will be thinking about Sarajevo and its first queer festival with positive feeling, support and love. We need it to know to feel ourselves. vale

Vodacom – “Disempowering Disability”

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 18/09/2008 - 16:39

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.

HighwayAfrica

Submitted by lcdonnelly on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 10:46

This past week, Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies and the South African Broadcasting Corporation hosted a conference called Highway Africa. The theme this year was, “Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens”.

Masculinity and Prevention

Submitted by jeffrey on Fri, 12/09/2008 - 14:08
Until recently South Africa has been a male dominated country lead by a patriarchal system.This system has been catapulted through masculinity, using masculinty as a tool to acquire dominanace an inequality in South Africa. The plartfoem used to enforce this masculine behaviours has been thorugh societal conditions thata become gender norms that set standards or expectations for how people should behave and interact.

Saying goodbye to Digital Story Participants in Sarajevo

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Thu, 11/09/2008 - 16:20

This is officially the end of our Digital Story workshop in Sarajevo. We are tired, but I hope, satisfied with what we have achieved. Thanks to the Association for Progressive Communication's Membership Exchange Fund, Cooperacion Italiana, One World Platform forSouth East Asia - and Women'sNet for releasing me for 2 weeks!

We have worked hard, given a lot, invested in the process: Alice, Bojana, Ivo, Irena, Elena, Alisa, Marina, Martina, Taida, Ivana, Sanjin and Vale - what magic we wove!

 thank you for adding your stones to the pile!