APC Africa Women

Digital stories on VAW featured on Take Back the Tech!

Digital stories prepared by women who document violence against women throughout Africa were launched during the Take Back the Tech campaign. Stories are available online at Take Back the Tech.
Digital stories

Digital Citizens Indaba and Highway Africa

AAW members, many blogging for the first time, provided coverage and a gendered lens at the Digital Citizens Indaba and Highway Africa. Visit the APC Blog for all the details!

Digital Storytelling to End Violence Against Women - Women's Electronic Networking Training 2007

In August we completed yet another WENT workshop, this one on Digital Storytelling. The digital stories developed focussed on the experiences of women who are content developers, librarians, archivists, journalists, mediators, translators, information activists, and who work in the field of ending violence against women. Participants of the workshop took control of technology and told their own stories - using audio, images and storywriting. Share the intensity of the workshop on our WENT blog. AAW host Women's Electronic Network Training (WENT) Africa
every two years

The Harambee Project - Let’s work together

Harambee means "Let's work together". APC-Africa-Women is one of the Focus Networks of the Harambee Project. We are currently busy with an exciting project to increase member participation in the AAW network and consequently increase the benefits of being a member. We are busy creating shared online spaces to enable members to more easily meet, share and collaborate with other members.

The first step is a skills audit to collect member information in relation to what skills exist among our members; what areas of skills and capacity members want to develop.

Other aspects are:

• A story-telling component where we will interview AAW members for their ICT stories.
• Country-based meetings where possible for AAW members who live in cities meet face-to-face and create a social and learning space to promote member interaction.
• Private, interactive and facilitated member spaces on the new (soon to be launched) AAW website using blogs, flickr space etc.
• Members able to upload and update their information on the website (skills, experience, news, activities) which can be accessed by a wider community.

We will introduce AAW members to new online networking tools and facilitate the production of new knowledge through this process and to highlight the creative and innovative uses of ICTs by AAW members.