From Mark@sangoco.org.za Mon Jul 30 08:13:09 2001 From: Mark@sangoco.org.za (Mark Weinberg) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:13:09 +0200 Subject: [Communitysa] AfricaPulse portal: Call for Contributors! Message-ID: <601BF149BF3DD21190DC006008580AAB3AD818@NTSERVER> Greetings on-line SANGOCO members, In the context of the closing of the ePRODDER list and the World Bank's venture into controlling the flow of information in the region (see www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/knowledgebank/gateway for more info) SANGOCO is calling on all its email active members to join together and build a progressive developmental on-line portal for the SADC region. SANGOCO, together with SANGONeT, COSATU, AIDC, National Community Radio Forum, and Women'sNet, and SANGONeT have initiated AfricaPulse, a one-stop-shop for all information related to development. AfricaPulse is conceptualised as a user-driven forum where contributors will submit material and define the content of the site. In South Africa we will begin training comrades that can contribute to the various sections of the project. To this end we are looking for individuals (preferably but not exclusively in NGOs) who are email active, work with information and would be interested in sharing their information with a wider audience. Presently AfricaPulse will be structured in the following sections: * Environment & Natural Resources: Rural and urban environment, dams, & deserts. * Land & Food Security: Land rights, ownership, farming, starvation, food distribution, genetically modified foods * Debt, Trade & Finance: Globalisation, privatisation, economies, free markets, socialism, budgets, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation * Essential Services: Housing, water, electricity, hospitals, roads, telephones * Media & Communications: Access to communications, media freedom, broadcast, print, telecommunications, internet, regulatory environment. * Health & Social Security: HIV/Aids, Malaria, cholera, access to healthcare, pensioners, minimum wage, grants. * Education & Capacity Building: Teaching, schools, training, Organisational Development, culture of learning. * Arts & Culture: Norms, values, traditions, religions, music, dance, poetry * Labour: Workers' rights, unions, labour policy, minimum wage * Conflict & People's Rights: War, torture, human rights, refugees * Building People's Organisations: NGOs, funding, ownership, networks * Gender Issues: Womens' issues, equality, gender roles, abuse * Youth: Youth development, involvement, resources, views, politics * Aged: Care of the aged, resources, abuse, empowerment * Disabled: Needs, resources, empowerment The regional process is now at the point where a 2-day workshop has been called in Johannesburg for NGO and Labour representatives across SADC to participate in the final conceptual phases of the project. The first round of training for contributors will take place in centres across the country in October. If you are interested in any of the above areas please contact me on 011 403 7746 or email mark@sangoco.org.za. Please also feel free to comment on the proposed structure of the site. yours for development, Mark Weinberg SANGOCO Communications From Mark at sangoco.org.za Mon Jul 30 10:13:09 2001 From: Mark at sangoco.org.za (Mark Weinberg) Date: Tue Feb 27 14:07:36 2007 Subject: [Communitysa] AfricaPulse portal: Call for Contributors! Message-ID: <601BF149BF3DD21190DC006008580AAB3AD818@NTSERVER> Greetings on-line SANGOCO members, In the context of the closing of the ePRODDER list and the World Bank's venture into controlling the flow of information in the region (see www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/knowledgebank/gateway for more info) SANGOCO is calling on all its email active members to join together and build a progressive developmental on-line portal for the SADC region. SANGOCO, together with SANGONeT, COSATU, AIDC, National Community Radio Forum, and Women'sNet, and SANGONeT have initiated AfricaPulse, a one-stop-shop for all information related to development. AfricaPulse is conceptualised as a user-driven forum where contributors will submit material and define the content of the site. In South Africa we will begin training comrades that can contribute to the various sections of the project. To this end we are looking for individuals (preferably but not exclusively in NGOs) who are email active, work with information and would be interested in sharing their information with a wider audience. Presently AfricaPulse will be structured in the following sections: * Environment & Natural Resources: Rural and urban environment, dams, & deserts. * Land & Food Security: Land rights, ownership, farming, starvation, food distribution, genetically modified foods * Debt, Trade & Finance: Globalisation, privatisation, economies, free markets, socialism, budgets, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation * Essential Services: Housing, water, electricity, hospitals, roads, telephones * Media & Communications: Access to communications, media freedom, broadcast, print, telecommunications, internet, regulatory environment. * Health & Social Security: HIV/Aids, Malaria, cholera, access to healthcare, pensioners, minimum wage, grants. * Education & Capacity Building: Teaching, schools, training, Organisational Development, culture of learning. * Arts & Culture: Norms, values, traditions, religions, music, dance, poetry * Labour: Workers' rights, unions, labour policy, minimum wage * Conflict & People's Rights: War, torture, human rights, refugees * Building People's Organisations: NGOs, funding, ownership, networks * Gender Issues: Womens' issues, equality, gender roles, abuse * Youth: Youth development, involvement, resources, views, politics * Aged: Care of the aged, resources, abuse, empowerment * Disabled: Needs, resources, empowerment The regional process is now at the point where a 2-day workshop has been called in Johannesburg for NGO and Labour representatives across SADC to participate in the final conceptual phases of the project. The first round of training for contributors will take place in centres across the country in October. If you are interested in any of the above areas please contact me on 011 403 7746 or email mark@sangoco.org.za. Please also feel free to comment on the proposed structure of the site. yours for development, Mark Weinberg SANGOCO Communications From Mark at sangoco.org.za Mon Jul 30 10:13:09 2001 From: Mark at sangoco.org.za (Mark Weinberg) Date: Tue Apr 17 18:11:20 2007 Subject: [Communitysa] AfricaPulse portal: Call for Contributors! Message-ID: <601BF149BF3DD21190DC006008580AAB3AD818@NTSERVER> Greetings on-line SANGOCO members, In the context of the closing of the ePRODDER list and the World Bank's venture into controlling the flow of information in the region (see www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/knowledgebank/gateway for more info) SANGOCO is calling on all its email active members to join together and build a progressive developmental on-line portal for the SADC region. SANGOCO, together with SANGONeT, COSATU, AIDC, National Community Radio Forum, and Women'sNet, and SANGONeT have initiated AfricaPulse, a one-stop-shop for all information related to development. AfricaPulse is conceptualised as a user-driven forum where contributors will submit material and define the content of the site. In South Africa we will begin training comrades that can contribute to the various sections of the project. To this end we are looking for individuals (preferably but not exclusively in NGOs) who are email active, work with information and would be interested in sharing their information with a wider audience. Presently AfricaPulse will be structured in the following sections: * Environment & Natural Resources: Rural and urban environment, dams, & deserts. * Land & Food Security: Land rights, ownership, farming, starvation, food distribution, genetically modified foods * Debt, Trade & Finance: Globalisation, privatisation, economies, free markets, socialism, budgets, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation * Essential Services: Housing, water, electricity, hospitals, roads, telephones * Media & Communications: Access to communications, media freedom, broadcast, print, telecommunications, internet, regulatory environment. * Health & Social Security: HIV/Aids, Malaria, cholera, access to healthcare, pensioners, minimum wage, grants. * Education & Capacity Building: Teaching, schools, training, Organisational Development, culture of learning. * Arts & Culture: Norms, values, traditions, religions, music, dance, poetry * Labour: Workers' rights, unions, labour policy, minimum wage * Conflict & People's Rights: War, torture, human rights, refugees * Building People's Organisations: NGOs, funding, ownership, networks * Gender Issues: Womens' issues, equality, gender roles, abuse * Youth: Youth development, involvement, resources, views, politics * Aged: Care of the aged, resources, abuse, empowerment * Disabled: Needs, resources, empowerment The regional process is now at the point where a 2-day workshop has been called in Johannesburg for NGO and Labour representatives across SADC to participate in the final conceptual phases of the project. The first round of training for contributors will take place in centres across the country in October. If you are interested in any of the above areas please contact me on 011 403 7746 or email mark@sangoco.org.za. Please also feel free to comment on the proposed structure of the site. yours for development, Mark Weinberg SANGOCO Communications From Mark at sangoco.org.za Mon Jul 30 10:13:09 2001 From: Mark at sangoco.org.za (Mark Weinberg) Date: Wed May 23 10:56:49 2007 Subject: [Communitysa] AfricaPulse portal: Call for Contributors! Message-ID: <601BF149BF3DD21190DC006008580AAB3AD818@NTSERVER> Greetings on-line SANGOCO members, In the context of the closing of the ePRODDER list and the World Bank's venture into controlling the flow of information in the region (see www.brettonwoodsproject.org/topic/knowledgebank/gateway for more info) SANGOCO is calling on all its email active members to join together and build a progressive developmental on-line portal for the SADC region. SANGOCO, together with SANGONeT, COSATU, AIDC, National Community Radio Forum, and Women'sNet, and SANGONeT have initiated AfricaPulse, a one-stop-shop for all information related to development. AfricaPulse is conceptualised as a user-driven forum where contributors will submit material and define the content of the site. In South Africa we will begin training comrades that can contribute to the various sections of the project. To this end we are looking for individuals (preferably but not exclusively in NGOs) who are email active, work with information and would be interested in sharing their information with a wider audience. Presently AfricaPulse will be structured in the following sections: * Environment & Natural Resources: Rural and urban environment, dams, & deserts. * Land & Food Security: Land rights, ownership, farming, starvation, food distribution, genetically modified foods * Debt, Trade & Finance: Globalisation, privatisation, economies, free markets, socialism, budgets, World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation * Essential Services: Housing, water, electricity, hospitals, roads, telephones * Media & Communications: Access to communications, media freedom, broadcast, print, telecommunications, internet, regulatory environment. * Health & Social Security: HIV/Aids, Malaria, cholera, access to healthcare, pensioners, minimum wage, grants. * Education & Capacity Building: Teaching, schools, training, Organisational Development, culture of learning. * Arts & Culture: Norms, values, traditions, religions, music, dance, poetry * Labour: Workers' rights, unions, labour policy, minimum wage * Conflict & People's Rights: War, torture, human rights, refugees * Building People's Organisations: NGOs, funding, ownership, networks * Gender Issues: Womens' issues, equality, gender roles, abuse * Youth: Youth development, involvement, resources, views, politics * Aged: Care of the aged, resources, abuse, empowerment * Disabled: Needs, resources, empowerment The regional process is now at the point where a 2-day workshop has been called in Johannesburg for NGO and Labour representatives across SADC to participate in the final conceptual phases of the project. The first round of training for contributors will take place in centres across the country in October. If you are interested in any of the above areas please contact me on 011 403 7746 or email mark@sangoco.org.za. Please also feel free to comment on the proposed structure of the site. yours for development, Mark Weinberg SANGOCO Communications