As we mentioned in a previous blog, the Makana Municipality sponsored the awareNet-Peace-Celebration on Peace Day, at which five schools from Grahamstown competed for the best HipHop song about Peace. This gives us the opportunity to record every of the five songs professionally to produce a CD. The CD will help us to publizise awareNet Read more about Recording of the awareNet Theme Song[…]
Anna and Ron Wertlen went to the SANGONet Conference this week (01-03/11/11), at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg to present the awareNet social network to an international audience of educators, politicians, funders and activists. SANGONet brings together everyone interested in ICT for rural development (#ICT4RD). The conference was very well organised and it was made Read more about awareNet at SANGONeT (#ICT4RD)[…]
The VSA published a short film about the music event on Peace Day. Have a look at the outcome of our wonderful project, in which learners from 5 schools in Grahamstown learned how to use computers and the Internet, how to write HipHop lyrics and perform them on stage in only 2 months. Please, watch Read more about A Video about the awareNet-Peace Day Celebration event[…]
RU Community Engagement held a function for all their volunteers, in which they received awards for their special involvement in the various organisations in Grahamstown that work for or with the community. CE is committed to social and individual transformation, sustainable community development, student civic responsibility and scholarship of engagement. The VSA is one of Read more about VSA Volunteers receive Awards from Rhodes University Community Engagement[…]
Within the scope of a professionalisation drive at the VSA, we are examining our relationships with close partners and making these explicit. The organisations that have signed and will soon be signing such agreements are close partners, Village Scribe Association Belgium-South Africa, eKhaya ICT and exPressive imPressions. The reason for these agreements are manifold: * Read more about VSA Memoranda of Understanding[…]
The VSA was encouraged by Riana Meiring (Director of Local Economic Development) to apply for funding from the Local and Regional Economic Development (LRED) Fund of the Eastern Cape Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEDEAT). The DEDEAT is very interested in stimulating local economic development in partnership with municipalities, so the VSA went into partnership with Read more about VSA partners with Makana Municipality for LRED Funding Proposal[…]
The VSA and three of our partners, eKhaya ICT, Left2Write and ReedHouseSystems, went together to rural Nkwalini in the Eastern Cape for several reasons. One was to hold a social networking workshop using awareNet for learners, teachers and community coordinators of the Zwelenqaba SSSchool (27.-28.09.11). Richard Strickland from eKhaya ICT updated the awareNet server and Read more about awareNet workshop at Zwelenqaba SSS in Nkwalini[…]
We had a fantastic music event at Peace Day yesterday, here in Grahamstown-South Africa! We celebrated Peace and awareNet with great HipHop music that was composed especially for this event. It took us only 2 months to get five groups together and train them to perform their own song in the contest while they learned Read more about awareNet Peace Day Celebration[…]
What an excitement again! Today (15/09/11 at 5pm), a few of our rappers gave an impression of their competence at the Youth 4 Youth Show on Radio Grahamstown while we announced our awareNet Peace Day Celebration. We also used the show to inform about the work of the Village Scribe Association, about awareNet and the Theme Song Read more about awareNet Rappers live on Radio Grahamstown[…]
We have worked very hard the last weeks to train learners how to use computers and the Internet using awareNet while training them how to rhyme, sing and rap a HipHop song. All of this is now documented in a short film which will be screened on Peace Day at both, Noluthando Hall in Grahamstown Read more about The awareNet Peace Day short film[…]