Women’sNet: Citizen Journalism Workshop

Women’sNet is a South African based non-governmental organisation that works to advance gender equality. Our work focuses on the intersection between gender and information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Women’sNet is conducting the Citizen Journalism Workshop from 9-12 February 2009 in Cape Town. The workshop will focus on training activists, civil society and community media journalists.

• Increase the capacity of civil society to use media to support their social change efforts, thereby enabling civil society organisations to provide diverse, critical, reliable and relevant information that democracy requires.

The goals of the project are

• To contribute to the vibrancy and sustainability of the media in general by enabling a culture of debate, information sharing and engagement through our work with civil society
• Increase the capacity of civil society actors and human rights activists to use ICTs as a tool for information generation and dissemination
• Increase the capacity of civil society actors and human rights activists express their approaches and opinion, and to produce content that is engaging, relevant and critical, 
• To increase the diversity of voice and issues available to South African media actors, and South Africans in general and to increase engagement by the public in content developed by civil society
• To deepen democracy though vibrant engagement prompted through citizen media

Dates: 9–12 February 2009

Time: 9h30 – 16h30 (Lunch will be provided)

Venue: Cape Town CBD (to be confirmed)

RSVP: Eva Ramokobala, email: eva@womensnet.org.za

For more information on Women’sNet, click here.