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Schoolchildren in Kliptown, Soweto have become the first in South Africa to benefit from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign, reports the Mail & Guardian.SA Good NewsOne hundred children from the Kliptown Youth Programme have joined the community of 250 000 children from developing countries across the […]
We have all be shocked by the recent spate of attacks on foreigners in South Africa but many of us go unaffected and are living our usual lives blissfully unaware of the torment others are currently suffering. Whether you agree to call it Xenophobia or not is not what we are debating.
The Unitedforafrica.co.za project aims […]
There’s no shortage of initatives to stimulate good positive values in South African Society. Even though we find ourselves in the middle of negative and uncertain times, there is alot happening to change the tide and the more people involved the closer we’ll get to our goals of becoming a country and nation we can […]
You may have noticed that over the past few months there hasn’t been any activity on this website. Due to my financial situation and lack of involvement from others we have not been able to progress much in terms of taking concrete steps, but the projects direction has evolved somewhat and through networking and conversation […]
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Unlocking the promise of open educational resources
We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and […]
What is the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign?
A few days ago I started a wiki site (http://one-thinktank.pbwiki.com) with the idea of getting people together to brainstorm some activism towards positive change in South Africa. It thought […]
I’ve just been surfing the www.greatergood.co.za website and went through the request for assistance page. Clicking through the many different organisation who are doing great work throughout the country in all different areas of need it gives me great hope. many times when we’re focusing on the negatives we fail to see how much good […]
Posted on May 15th, 2007 by Author Goldstuck at www.thebigchange.com
South Africa’s socio-economic challenges can be addressed far more quickly if poverty alleviation becomes a business development task shared between the private sector, local governments and local entrepreneurs.
That’s the bold prediction of social entrepreneur Lee Elliott, whose innovative model of for-profit social upliftment is rapidly grabbing […]
A while ago while researching e-learning and related subjects I came across the One Laptop Per Child project. It’s a brave initiative which, though it inspired me I struggled to conceptualize the realization of the goal. Their stated goal is:
“It’s an education project, not a laptop project.”— Nicholas Negroponte
Our goal: To provide children around […]
It strikes me that we are at present a country desperately in need of its national identity. During apartheid, South Africa was defined as such. Then came the “miracle years” of Madiba and 1994, and the next decade we held a national identity of the celebratory freedom of the rainbow nation. But this period is […]