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 - 18h00

Tuesdays:         15h00 - 18h00

Wednesdays:   15h00 - 18h00

Thursdays:       15h00 - 18h00

Fridays:             15h00 - 18h00

 

Forum Members 

Granwill Pienaar (Community Researcher)

Ruwyda Jacobs (Vice-Chairperson)

Liziwe Kalo (Secretary)

Heather Kalo (Facilitator)

Denvill Jonas (Webmaster)

Charlene George (Community Researcher)

Songezo Mpeteng (Facilitator)

Busisiwe Ngqulana (Trainer)

Evangeline Lottering (Marketing)

Celeste Snyman (Project Officer)

Considered members for 2009/10:

Alfred Pheiffer

Audrey Jonas

Bongiwe Motsoane

Charlotte Maans

Liviyo Booysen

ACHIEVEMENTS

04/12/10

Sisonke e-community forum is improving day by day. This year the facilitators they are busy giving classes to the community members, classes of Microsoft Word, Excel, Basic computer concepts, Powerpoint, File Management. The programme is for six months after they are done every member of the community who passed the tests will be issued with the certificate. We are aiming july month for the graduation of the community members.

 

 

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Sisonke.com News

04/12/10

We had workshops with the community members where we gave them knowledge and understanding around Information Communication Technology. The other workshop that we had was interesting in a way that people asked questions about Cape Access and Sisonke.com. Questions like... When was Sisonke.com established and We did gave them a green light about our plans and future. We also had community meetings. Our main focus is for those who are busy with the training this year to graduate in August 2010. 

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Achievements

11/04/08

Computer Training Programme.Sisonke.com manages to trained 78 community members according the register list of every day attendance in basic Computer Literacy through the facilitators from August - September 2008 and was able to certified 38 Committed members which attend the centre commitedly during the training session with certificates of what Programmes they did during the Training session.

EPWP - Portal. We could not manage to proceed with the Program due to some technical problem with the website of Public Works,but did manage to find a solution for the program by inventing a session where we invite community members to register their cv's on job sites on the internet just to put themselves on databasis of companies all over the Western Cape.Members was not that interested in this Program but yet they did manage to still visit the centre to participate in the program for October 2008. The Forum could not manage to find any results in the Program cause members are still waiting for correspondence from companies where they register their cv's.

Workshop for Unemployed Matriculates. On the 14 November 2008 Sisonke.com intend to held a workshop for previous mentioed members in the communities of Beaufort West. The result for this Program still need to be provided by the outcome of the next years unemployed matriculate rate that's partyicipate in this program.

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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.