A New SMS Tool For Communication!
Why should you attend?
In South Africa there are approximately 36 million active cellphone users, and around 80% of all youth and adults have a cellphone (compared to around 12% who have access to internet through a computer). If you work with the intersection of gender and HIV, and you need to communicate with your beneficiaries, partners or advocacy targets, cellphones are the way to go.
Who should attend?
Non-profit organisations or networks that
work in the violence against women sector - particularly around the intersection of HIV and violence against women
work with women's health, reproductive or health rights
work on issues relating to HIV/AIDS
work to address gender inequality as it connects to HIV/AIDS
Participants should be communications officers or people who work in advocacy or outreach and should be computer literate.
To attend, send the attached confirmation sheet to: eunice [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za (eunice [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za) by the 5 August 2009 (we have limited space, so please do confirm soon!)
About Cell-Life
Cell-Life is a not-for-profit (Section 21) company based in Cape Town that develops technical systems for the HIV sector (http://www.cell-life.org.za/ <http://www.cell-life.org.za>). Cell-Life has funding to develop cellphone system for mass messaging to the wider HIV-community. This is a three-year project, funded by the Vodacom Foundation, the RAITH Foundation, and Johns Hopkins Health & Education SA (Pepfar). We have developed a web-based SMS system called "Mobilisr", together with Praekelt Foundation and Upfront Systems. This allows users to log-on to their account, send SMS to a list of numbers, and schedule the time of sending. It can also do various other things that we will explain (such as keyword SMS, subscribe and unsubscribe to lists, and USSD)
About Women'sNet
Women'sNet is a feminist organisation that works to advance gender equality and justice in South Africa through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We provide training and facilitate content dissemination and creation that supports women, girls, and women's and gender organisations and networks to take control of their own content and ICT use.
