Women’sNet’s ICT camps
Over the past two months, Women’sNet in partnership with SoulBeat Africa hosted three ICT camps in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg with partner organisation with funding from Oxfam Canada. The aims of the training workshops were to create, strengthen and build an online community of feminists using ICTs for their projects and programmes; to contribute and share information among OWRAP partners and with other organisations using the Atrium; and to strategically use ICTs in our projects and programmes. To achieve this, Women’sNet conducted training on Atrium, mobile advocacy and e-advocacy. We are glad the workshops were able to meet some of the participant’s expectations and hope the partners will continue using the online platforms for continued communications with stakeholders, constituencies and partners.
Women’sNet would like to thank the following organisations for their valued contributions that led to the success of the workshops:
- Cape Town Rape Crisis Centre
- Women on Farms Project
- Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT)
- Khanya College
- Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme (TVEP)
- Remmoho
- NISAA Women’s Institute
- Justice and Women
- Woza Moya
- PACSA
- Project Empower
- Gay and Lesbian project
For content produced during the workshop, you may like to view our photo albums on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/WomensNet/170417333020351?sk=photos) or flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/women_snet/) and watch videos about emotional abuse, youth smoking, domestic violence on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=womensnetorgza%09)
News
Published date:
13 Oct 2011
Rural and indigenous women in northern Argentina, hit hard by the expanding agricultural frontier, deforestation and the spraying of toxic pesticides, spoke out about their problems and set forth proposals for discussion at the next global summit on climate change. They did so at the Women's Hearing on Gender and Climate Justice 2011-Argentina, held Tuesday Oct. 11 in Resistencia, the capital of Chaco province, 950 km north of Buenos Aires, attended by representatives of organisations from the northern 10 of the country's 23 provinces.
Published date:
17 Oct 2011
Despite efforts to fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Rwanda, it has been noted that the public still misinterprets the campaigns with most thinking that they are aimed at protecting only women and children, and not men. This has contributed to the increasing cases of violence against men, according to the Chief Gender Monitor, Oda Gasinzigwa. "In the past years, very many women and children were victims of GBV, compared to men; which is why most of our campaigns targeted them. But it should not imply that men are ignored in this move, like some people have perceived it," Gasinzigwa noted. She made the observations in an interview with The New Times, reacting to recent police statistics which indicate an increase in the number of men assaulted by their spouses.
Events
Date of event:
11 October 2011
In 2003, Sylvia Tamale was named as the “Worst Woman of the Year” by a conservative bloc within Uganda. Working at the time as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University (she later became its Dean), she was vilified for weeks within one of Kampala’s major daily newspapers, New Vision, as responsible for everything from the moral degeneration of the nation to the reason Ugandan teenagers were going to go to hell.
Date of event:
21 October 2011
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) is a nonprofit foundation which collaborates with other organisations on issues surrounding the rule of law, democracy building, human rights, economic development, education, media, access to technology and information.
Date of event:
25 October 2011 - 27 October 2011
To bring together, government, investors, NGOs and social entrepreneurs from across the region - and beyond - to understand the realities of rural development, explore the innovative use of information and communication technology and to catalyse the growth of ICT4RD solutions for scale
ICT4RD 2011 will look at the current state of ICT4RD projects, products and policies but also create an environment for matchmaking, and deep knowledge-sharing; and to fundamentally contribute to the successful use of ICTs in the realities of rural development.
Date of event:
1 November 2011 - 3 November 2011
The annual SANGONeT “ICTs for Civil Society” Conference is the premier ICT event dedicated to the work of the NGO sector in Southern Africa.
The 7th Annual SANGONeT Conference will be held from 1-3 November 2011 at the Wanderers Club in Illovo, Johannesburg.
The 2011 event will focus on information communication technologies for rural development (ICT4RD) in Africa under the theme “Rural Realities, Real Solutions”.
Job Opportunities
Application Deadline:
21 Oct 2011
OSISA seeks to appoint an Assistant Programme Manager (APM), based in Johannesburg
Application Deadline:
23 Oct 2011
ISS seeks to appoint an Office Director, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Application Deadline:
28 Oct 2011
UN Women seeks to appoint an Executive Assistant, based in Sunninghill, Johannesburg.
Application Deadline:
31 Oct 2011
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Institute of Peace, Governance and Leadership (IPLG) at the Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe, seek to appoint an energetic Managing Editor.
