For the past 4 weeks, the smallfry team of Vega Design School has worked on a new brand strategy for awarenet. On Monay 05/11/12 they presented their outcome to the eKhaya ICT team and the VSA trustees and members via skype. You may have noted one of their suggestion already in the title: awarenet needs Read more about A new Brand Strategy for awarenet by Vega[…]
The VSA AGM 2012 took place on Saturday, the 3rd of November at 11am in Berlin-Zehlendorf. 11 members participated, two of them over skype, 8 members were excused, 1 member was unexcused. Anna and Ron Wertlen reported about VSA finances and activities in the past year. A presentation containing all details can be accessed here: Read more about The VSA AGM 2012 Report[…]
The awareNet programme combines computer & Internet literacy training with practical projects that are interesting and important to young people. This term, the VSA has focused on life orientation after requests by several teachers and awareNet champions. awareNet users worked on a project called “Health Promotion”, which included information about fitness&health as well as about Read more about Professional Talks for awareNet Users[…]
The VSA was invited to attend the Makana Leadership Forum on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at the Center for Social Development. The Makana Leadership Forum is an opportunity for leaders in civil society to form a strategic network of support and knowledge to help each other deal with the challenges of running an NGO. Topics Read more about VSA at Makana Leadership Forum[…]
This year’s AGM will take place on the 3rd of November 2012 at 11am in Berlin. Please, RSVP to this blog if you would like to take part. Here is the agenda for the meeting: 1. Welcome and excused 2. Reports 2.1 The Association: VSA as NGO and PBO, eKhaya ICT-VSA MoU, awareNet software and Read more about The VSA AGM 2012 Agenda[…]
A new, exciting project was started on awareNet. Learners from VG High School were inspired by their teacher and VSA trustee Sarah Hanton, who attended the SA Basic Education Conference in April this year, where the issues of unequal education were raised. We wanted to join the Equal Education Campaign and learners decided to compose Read more about The Equal Education Song Project on awareNet[…]
Two of the current most active projects on awareNet that are supervised by the VSA are gladly approved by the teachers of the participating schools, because they are conveniently aligned with the curriculum and provide practical application of what is learned during school hours. One of them is the the Semiotics Project, led by Richard Read more about VSA alignes awareNet Projects with official School Curriculum[…]
In the software world, X has two central connotations, eXtreme programming (rapid design and implementation of software) and XML (XPath, XSLT, exsetra), technologies that are closely associated with innovation and the Web. The Xinnovations conference 2012 looked at smart ways to get computers to help people, mainly through the semantic web and the Internet. That Read more about awareNet at Xinnovation 2012 — Xpitch — South African Innovation[…]
The VSA intents to enhance its community coordinators’ skills to improve the quality of their work and social impact during awareNet sessions. Recently, Terri-Lynn Penney coordinates a project about life orientation and health promotion, which includes learners from various different schools in Grahamstown. She is assisted by Rooi Rikhotso, our new volunteer. So, we immediately Read more about Skill Enhancement for VSA Community Coordinators[…]
South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has brought together a number of government agencies, local groups and stakeholders for an ambitious project in Cofimvaba, near Queenstown in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Goals include improving education, creating food security and building the local economy through agriculture and related SMEs. The project is currently based Read more about awareNet at Arthur Mfebe Educational Centre, Cofimvaba[…]