ICT Training Services

Training on the Strategic Use of ICTs

Information and communications technology (ICT) has the potential to make organisations more effective, to reach more people and to help achieve organizational goals. ICT can also increase your organisation's workload, and create blockages in your work, where there is a skills deficit.

Women'sNet creates needs-based training courses for women's NGO's on using technology more effectively. Training at Women'sNet focuses on strategic use of technology to meet the real needs of women. We conduct training on producing audio files for community radio and the internet, creating digital stories, on using the internet and email effectively, on advocacy and lobbying online and other tailor made courses.

The Benefit to your organisation:

It is becoming more and more important for NGOs to become ICT literate - to be able to take advantage of the potentials ICTs offer in the realm of fundraising, research, project management, documentation and communications. We will design a training course that fits your organisation's mission and vision - matching your technology skills with the needs and strategies of your organisation, and planning for the use of technology in the future. All our courses are practical and hands-on.

Examples of our work:

Digital Stories for Transformation:

Women'sNet undertook our first Digital stories workshop in 2006, and since this time has trained a number of women and their organisations to use this methodology to make change and create materials for transforming gender relations. We have worked with: Photo Voice UK, University of Western Cape's Gender Equity Unit, Margaret Sanger International, Oxfam Australia and the Fancy Stitch Project, and Just Associates.

Free and Open Source Software Solutions (FOSS):

Women'sNet was part of the first workshop for women on free and open source technology in Africa in 2004. We partnered with the Tactical Technology Collective in 2007 to develop the BaseBox of FOSS tools for NGOs. Our focus is on creating choices for NGOs on which tool is the most cost effective and appropriate for their needs.

Basic to Advanced Computer training

Our training is not application based, but based on strategic use and decision making on technologies that are relevant to identified needs. We have trained women from SMMEs in partnership with the South African Women's Entrepreneur Network on using computers in their small businesses. We have trained a small NGO on social networking tools, women in communities on using ICTs for getting their voices heard, girls on using blogs and producing audio pieces for radio.