Since 2011, the VSA partners with Peace One Day, an NGO that invented Peace Day (21st of September) and encourages everyone in the world to take part. We have encouraged more than 50 young learners to write lyrics about peace and rap them on Peace Day 2011. We have recorded the learners and published the Read more about Who will awarenet users make Peace with?[…]
The VSA has found a great, reliable and effective partner for it’s awarenet programme with underprivileged learners over the years: Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This year, we are extremely lucky and proud to be able to say that no less than three Departments support awarenet’s current peace and music project. The Department of Journalism and Read more about Rhodes University supports awarenet’s Peace and Music Project[…]
Antje Hering, our new Weltwärts volunteer, organised a benefit concert to finance her stay in South Africa. It was a wonderful evening! She played accordion with the Klezmer-Band “Chalijastre” (see photo, Antje in the middle) and presented a few projects of the VSA/awarenet (with awarenet learners from CM Vellem HPS during the drama project with Read more about Benefit Concert by and for awarenet Volunteer in Germany[…]
Die VSA präsentiert awarenet und diskutiert mit Teilnehmern der Vision Summit in Berlin über Weltklasse-Bildung für alle – Wie können digitale Lernangebote zur Potenzialentfaltung beitragen? Lernangebote im Internet schaffen neue Bildungszugänge. Open Educational Ressourcen demokratisieren die Bildung. Universitäten öffnen sich z.B. durch Massive Open Online Courses für tausende Menschen weltweit. Wie verändern diese Entwicklungen unsere Read more about awarenet auf der Vision Summit EduAction in Berlin![…]
The Village Scribe Association has recently welcomed a new school to the awarenet network: Alexandria High School in the Eastern Cape. Alexandria HS is a rural high school with a long history and excellent academic record, and a driven and dedicated staff. Thanks to a grant from First Rand Bank, the school has recently set Read more about Alexandria High School in Eastern Cape now also part of awarenet network[…]
The Village Scribe Association Trust would like to thank Amy, Mary and Brandon Goodenough and Samantha Munro sincerely for the donation of their computers. They will be of great help for our community programme “awarenet”. They will be used as (portable) servers to provide Internet access to underprivileged learners in Joza-Grahamstown and for general awarenet Read more about Donation of Laptop for Community Use[…]
Today, I have a message for you, from Rieke and Antje – the two Weltwaerts volunteers: “On Monday, we took the train to Berlin to meet Anna in her home and office, where our internship took place. We will stay here for 4 days to be well prepared for our voluntary service. On the first Read more about SAGE Net. volunteers busy in Berlin![…]
Some technical background about awarenet The awarenet technology is PHP, MySQL and Kapenta based. We use it extensively on Ubuntu Linux. It has been tested on Android 2+, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X and with many clients (browsers) including older Internet Explorer versions. Each server in the awarenet network presents a different view on the Read more about awarenet: Social Media for Mesh Networks[…]
Good News! This year’s Peace Day Project on awarenet has not only started successfully and with a lot of motivation from the learners and trainers. We have also motivated a lot of donors to support the project financially. Almost 50% of the project is financially secured, which means that trainers can be paid who are Read more about Almost 50% of this year’s Peace Day Project financed[…]
awarenet learners have started writing their own lyrics about peace, awareness and their dreams and believes as part of the Peace Concert Project on awarenet. Here, you can see learners from Mary Waters High School. The project participants usually meet twice a week. They use the meetings to discuss what peace means to them and Read more about awarenet learners write their own peace lyrics[…]