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[…]
We have already given you a little impression of how the VSA has decided to change the face of awareNet by publishing our new icon. We have now adapted the whole website: it’s got a new colour scheme and changed its style slightly. We are aware that the new colours are quite radical. But do Read more about The new face of awareNet[…]
The VSA facilitates the use of awareNet in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, especially in Grahamstown. We mentioned in a previous blog post, that the VSA is offering a large number of new and repeated projects on awareNet this first term of the year 2012. These include science, fitness&health, creative writing&blogging, software development and music, Read more about The spectrum of schools on awareNet broadens[…]
On Monday the 23rd of January, the Village Scribe Association visited the District Office of the ECDoE at Lady Frere. We met with Chulekazi Bula (District Office Director) and several other curriculum and technical staff. We wanted to find out whether awareNet, with its co-curricular and (ICT) literacy focus, would be of interest to the Read more about Bringing awareNet to the Lady Frere District[…]
We are proud to announce that the video clip for the awareNet theme song was shot last weekend by Roderich Zipp. The learners from Mary Waters HS and winners of the HipHop song competition last Peace Day worked very well together and truly had fun, even though it was a long and tiring day, which Read more about Shoot of awareNet song video clip[…]
On awareNet, you can chat with your friends, upload your photos and videos, fiddle with your profile page, write witty blogs or discuss controversial topics. If all of that becomes too boring, because you have done it on numerous other websites, you can start working on a collaborative project which will take you back to Read more about This year’s number of awareNet workshop themes just exploded![…]