Anna Wertlen was invited to give a talk at the 2nd Annual Women in ICT Conference at the Southern Sun Montecasino Hotel in Johannesburg (24/3/12). Her talk was about “Community-driven ICT Enabled Development: Making the ICT services accessible to the communities and to develop awareness of these resources.” Other speakers were Meryl Malcommess (Marketing Director, Read more about The VSA at the Annual Women in ICT Conference[…]
The beginning of the year was very difficult for the governmental schools in the Eastern Cape. Again, the temporary teachers’ posts were unassured and SADTU decided that all teachers had to go ‘Go Slow’. In the end – as usual – mainly the learners suffered from all the regulations and protests. At many schools, days Read more about awareNet survives ‘Go Slow’ – awareNet schools stay open longer[…]
Our partner Impuls from Switzerland has offered us a benefit concert for the VSA by the world-famous a capella group The Glue. The Glue (here on YouTube) tours South Africa from Durban to Cape Town and was looking for a place for another gig in between these two towns, preferably including some interaction with locals Read more about Benefit Concert for the VSA by The Glue from Switzerland[…]
We can proudly announce that this Tuesday 07/02/12, the VSA was visited and inspected by Therese Boulle, one of the evaluators of the Impumelelo Social Innovation Awards. We handed in an application a few months ago and by sending an evaluator, Impumelelo signaled us that we made it into the second round. So, we spent Read more about VSA’s awareNet system evaluated by Impumelelo[…]
Last week, Anna and Ron Wertlen went to Port Elizabeth to give an awareNet workshop for the eight teachers of the Masifunde Learner Development Center. They were very interested and motivated to integrate the use of awareNet into their existing educational program. We explained how we envisage and handle the combined training at computers and Read more about Our partner Masifunde Learner Development started using awareNet[…]