VSA submitted 5 pictures for eLearning Africa Photo Competition – help us win and vote for us!

The eLearning Africa Conference Photo Competition asked for pictures with the theme Capture this! How ICTs are empowering people across Africa. The VSA submitted 5 pictures including descriptions.

M favourite description is this one: Upstarters being aware (to vote click here)

An innovative, true multimedia project that drew a lot of attention: The Village Scribe Association (international NGO) and eKhaya ICT (South African local IT business) developed a social networking software awareNet especially designed to be used largely offline, adapting to rural and peri-urban setting. Eastern Cape learners benefit from free lessons and a partnership with the Zazi Foundation for educational video content about health: teachAIDS videos, provided by the Stanford University School of Education. Inspired by the World AIDS Day 2010, learners collaboratively worked on a project about HIV/AIDS in wiki style. Certain parts of this projects were selected online by the Management of Grocott’s Mail, Grahamstown’s independent newspaper, to be included in the November 2010 Upstart supplement (The Paper for Youth by Youth). Here you can see the learners proudly reading their articles in the Upstart Paper. The photograph was taken by Rhodes University Community Engagement volunteers who work with the learners on several projects on awareNet. Together they started an awareNet photo project in which photos for the ‘eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011’ were taken, uploaded, described, and chosen for submission.

Upstarters being aware

The other pictures are called:

  • Curiosity, awareness and motivation (to vote click here)
  • Solar Panels, Off-line Internet and awareNet (to vote click here)
  • Rural SA cooperates with German University (to vote click here)
  • When power is more of a problem than owning a cell (to vote click here)

Please, help us to win the competition and vote for us! Thank you.

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