Cape Town NetSquared Meetup: ICTs for Civil Society

The 3rd Cape Town NetSquared Meetup was help at Wild Fig. The focus of this Meetup was aroud ICTs for Civil Society.

Arthur Goldstuck was the keynote speaker at the event. He is an award-winning writer,analyst and communicator on Internet, Mobile and business, and Arthur is the head of World Wide Worx a research organisation.

Some interesting facts that he mentioned was around research conducted about parents’ perception of where their children are at interms of their usage of technology. Other interesting research was done in desadvantage vs advantage schools in Gauteng area that highlighted the fact that there is still a huge digital devide between the two.

MOM2.0 Vlogging Session

As we are approching towards the end of the year we still got a few social tools that we need to cover. Today’s MOM2.0 cafe session was about video blogging. The ladies captured short video clips from their mobile phones, registerd on the video sharing site YouTube where they shared the video clips. After loading the video’s on YouTube they copyed the embeded code and uploaded it on blogger the space where the ladies engage and share their stories www.mom2zer0.com

Here is Vlogging Tips: Keep it short and to the point. Not many people like waiting for videos to buffer, and because of this, it might be better to make a short video that clearly expresses what needs to be expressed. This way, the video would load faster and more people will appreciate what you have to say instead of cursing the server. A small and simple file makes things easy for both yourself and your viewers.

Art of Mobile Counselling in Western Cape

The Reconstructed Living Labs (Rlabs) had a follow up meeting with the Department of Social Development on the Drug Advice Support project in the Western Cape. We came to a conclusion that Drug Advice and Support pilot project will be launched in schools from the 9th of November 2009.

The five areas in the Western Cape that will be targeted is, Khyalitsha, Atlantis, Mitchells Plain, Athlone & Paarl. The NGO’s that will be part of this project is SANCA, Dop Stop, Sultun Bahu and Impact Direct Ministiers. This NGO’s will target 3 schools each in their area from grade 8-10. Each of the NGO’s will have two cousellors that will be online for four hours per day Monday-Thursday.

This is a mobile counselling platform not the normal face to face counselling that the NGO’s are use to. Being the worlds first mobile cousellor I got some experience on this system. I am allowed to say there is a Art of being a mobile couselor. All the NGO’s that will be part of the pilot project will get training by the world’s first mobile counsellors in the Rlabs. The aim of this training is to introduce the art of mobile counselling

Art of Mobile Counselling in Western Cape

The Reconstructed Living Labs (Rlabs) had a follow up meeting with the Department of Social Development on the Drug Advice Support project in the Western Cape. We came to a conclusion that Drug Advice and Support pilot project will be launched in schools from the 9th of November 2009.

The five areas in the Western Cape that will be targeted is, Khyalitsha, Atlantis, Mitchells Plain, Athlone & Paarl. The NGO’s that will be part of this project is SANCA, Dop Stop, Sultun Bahu and Impact Direct Ministiers. This NGO’s will target 3 schools each in their area from grade 8-10. Each of the NGO’s will have two cousellors that will be online for four hours per day Monday-Thursday.

This is a mobile counselling platform not the normal face to face counselling that the NGO’s are use to. Being the worlds first mobile cousellor I got some experience on this system. I am allowed to say there is a Art of being a mobile couselor. All the NGO’s that will be part of the pilot project will get training by the world’s first mobile counsellors in the Rlabs. The aim of this training is to introduce the art of mobile counselling

Moulding new Drug Advice and Support Advisors

Impact staff will be doing two days of training in the Reconstructed Living Lab. They will be doing the Art of Mobile Counselling. As the numbers is increasing on the Drug Advice and Support service we need more advisors on the system.

Although most of them are doing one on one counselling there is an Art of being a mobile counselor. The aim of this training is to introduce the mobile system that we are using and the Art of a Mobile Cousellor and they will do a role play on the Drug Advice Support system.

After doing training with the Impact staff the Drug Advice and Support system went live after 3 weeks down the developers did some maintenance on the system. The service ended with more than 300 messages and more than 50 users online in the space of two hours.

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Michael on RLabs

Playstation FIFA 2010 Tournament

I just registed for a online soccer tournament that will take place tomorrow the winner will go to UK

you tube session

i had a great time in reconstructed class this morning.Craig Ross.Brent Williams and Clive Everste gave us the lesson i thank God for what he has done in their lives.this morning session we uploaded videos to our you tube accounts.keep watching this space God bless.

saved by the blood of JESUS

We should have faith

I had a good week so far. Today session at Reconstructed was very informative.I,m greatfull that God saved me at the right time.Everything that we have comes from God. I am also happy to be among the believers here.

My encouragement to everyone is to remain in God. God want to give us our heart desires." The ultimate measure of a Man is not where he is in times of comfort but where he is in times of challenge."We can make it through hardship and we should always remember joy comes in the morning.

The only solution is that we should have faith, and believe in God's word.

LEON

everything started with GOD so when u have a promlem consult GOD first it works for me!

IN THE BEGINING

i had a very PROFOUND and PROLIFIC morning with the guys in the RECONSTRUCTED Programme.

Never The Same Again.

My week was really amaizing had an awesome experience in the presence of the Lord.I was really overwhelmed on wednesday evening after homecell,the word was about we allowing ourselves to get lost in God...

WOW!!!....I was really seeking God that evening because I was longing for a deeper touch of the Holy Spirit and I got more than what I expected.I got home from homecel and went to bed immediately but I couldn't fall asleep I knew that I needed have a one on one with God that evening,I was so restless but I got up and went into the other room and I wept before the Lord.I experienced the Lord like never before and I know that My Life Will Never Be The Same Again,it carried on whole night through until about 4:30 am....

I can just give God all the Praise and Glory....I Pray the whoever reads this post would be encouraged and motivated to change their lives and give it to Jesus I promise you that when you decide to change your life it will never be the same again.....

Reconstructed class

Clive Doing Talk @ Reconstucted Session

My short testimony

about THE LORD recstructing me

the start of much more