Sisonke.com

Overview and Background.

Beaufort West e-Community forum, Sisonke.com is a community development through technology programme. The Forum was launch 12 April 2008, and is based at Beaufort West Secondary School. Sisonke.com meaning ‘We All Together’ is about to unite our communities through free access to computers, internet, information and most of other communities in the Western Cape. The Forum consists of members in the communities which fulfill different roles in the forum to sustain the aims and objectives of the Forum and also Cape Access.

"The aim for the start of the Forum is to drive information society projects on behalf of Cape Access at local level and also to manage the e-centre where it’s going to operate from. It’s also an initiative to create an information society amongst our disadvantage, unemployed, able/disable citizens in our Beaufort West community".

 

We as Sisonke.com also aim to foresee the development in our community through technology. We further also want to contribute to above mentioned citizens, helping them in any capacity we able to in order to contribute to the betterment of our broad Beaufort West community. As a Forum we intend to concentrate not just on able and healthy community members , but will also put our emphasis on disable and people affected with HIV/Aids.

 

“To achieve such compliment we need the cooperation from other organizations who also initiates development programmes in our town and also a broad infrastructure e.g. more computers”

Based at:

Beaufort West Secondary School

Heuwel Street - area called (Makoekoebult)

Beaufort West

6970

 

OperationaL Hours

Mondays:          15h00 - 19h00

Tuesdays:         15h00 - 19h00

Wednesdays:   15h00 - 19h00

Thursdays:       15h00 - 19h30

Fridays:             15h00 - 17h00

Saturday:           09h00-13h00

 

 

Forum Members

Alfred Pheiffer (Chairman)

Bazel Banthom (Deputy Chairman)

Songezo ''Shakes'' Mpeteng (Assistant Development Manager)

Evengeline Lottering (Centre Manager)

Zuzukuphila Zibani (Marketing Officer)

Audrey Jonas (Community Researcher)

Sharlene George (Community Researcher)

Johlen Swartz (Development Manager)

 

WATCH OUT FOR THE CENTRE IN KWA MANDLENKOSI THAT IS SOON TO BE OPENED!!!!

''WE ARE MOVING FORWARD''!!!!!!!!

 

ALL NEW: September Month 2011

04/12/10

On 28 of September Sisonke E-Community forum will be having a Community meeting at the Mimosa Library at 15h00. The meeting will about the report back concerning the past six months. We also need to Introduce the committee. Inform and Report on ICDL Training. Events, projects and Opening of the new centre in Kwa Mandlenkosi!!!  

 

 

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Current Occurences at the forum

04/12/10

In this year we had the election of the new forum, Only 1 member was elected to be the Deputy Chairperson of Sisonke.com Bazel Banthom. We also had the chairperson meeting at Langebaan. The Development Manager and the Centre manager and Assistant were at the ICDL training.

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Strategic Alignment October 2010

11/04/08

On the 23 of October 2010 we had our Strategic Alignment Session here at school. We discussed the budget of the forum preparing for next year. Murraysburg E-Community forum was present too on our strategic alignment session. Ayanda presented us with brilliant ideas that could be useful to every forum members. Her ideas basically were uplifting cape access and individuals as the whole. I have to say that were really impressed and we liked the ideas that she presented, they were positive and encourageous especially to forum members. I'm happy to say that everything was a success. We are finished with our strategic alignment planning and also our budget for 2011.

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Cape Access is a community development project which sees ICTs as tools to be used in building knowledge and creating opportunities.