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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.

Equality within the Rastafari Movement

Submitted by dumisani on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:27
My experiences in the workshop sharpened my knowledge about women and their struggles. As a male, most especially one from a very partriachal faith, we very seldom notice sisters taking part in gender activism. These women are powerful and i would love to introduce more Rasta sisters into the program to instill more confidence and self esteem.

Living life as an act of activism

Submitted by thobile on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:24
How I became an activist My defintion: An actvist is someone who is an active participant in the bringing about of change to any social issues. This can be a teacher, an entertainer or even a policy maker etc. In light of the above definition I dare to consider myself an a Rastafari activist in that I have become someone who actively seeks to better change the reality of the Rastafari nation in Azania. This was not my intention from the onset but something that rather happened to me along my life path.

From burnout to burning

Submitted by janice on Thu, 10/07/2008 - 12:19
The drill goes like this. You go to school and read dead authors. Fill your head with theories and listen to people tell you what's wrong with the world. (They never tell you though how to make things right.) Then you graduate and “make the grade”. You join the rat race and once you graduate from being a rat, people tell you that you are good once you've entered the “dog eats dog” club.

Welcome to The Women'sNet Citizen Journalism Workshp

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 11:00

 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.

Report Back on the CLIQ research meeting

Submitted by sally_jean.shac... on Thu, 12/06/2008 - 11:19

On the 15th and 16th of May i attended the Stakeholders meeting of the "Community-based Learning, ICTs and Quality-of-life (CLIQ): A participatory approach to assessing the impact of ICT access on quality-of-life in KwaZulu-Natal".

The research project is very relevant and timely - we know ICT's make an impact on peoples lives, but we have no research to demonstrate how much and under what circumstances ICTs impact on the quality of people's lives as they define it.