Soul Beat Africa
Soul Beat Africa is now 6 months old! Over the past months you have increasingly visited The Soul Beat Africa site, and the network database has grown to over 5,000 participants/recipients. With this, our 10th edition of The Soul Beat, we'd like to review what we've been up to, where we are going, reflect on the process and request your feedback on our work.
Soul Beat Africa aims to be a space for communicators across Africa to share experiences, materials, strategic thinking and events, and to engage in discussion and debate. It is meant for communicators, practitioners, media makers, academics, researchers, and others who are using or are interested in communication for change in Africa.
Please Contribute!
We want to feature your work, your events, your publications, your strategies. Contact Anja Venth aventh@comminit.com
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THE CONTENT
Each of our content sections is an opportunity to share your information and learn what others are doing and thinking in other areas in Africa.
1.Programme Experiences
- summaries of projects, programmes and activities using communication for change in Africa.
i.e.
Among Youth - Cameroon
Ndizathuzomwe Civic Education Radio - Malawi
2.Evaluations
- summaries of impact data, process data, and evaluations of communication for development and social change projects and programmes in Africa.
i.e.
Mid-Term Evaluation: A Review of the Sara Communication Initiative
3.Edutainment
- summaries of projects and thinking on the use and development of materials and programmes that combine entertainment and education in addressing development issues in Africa.
i.e.
HIV/AIDS Communication and Prevention: A Health Communication Research Project, 2001-2003
Voice Out: An Entertainment-Education approach?
4. Social Change
- summaries and full articles based on theories of social change, with a direct reference to Africa where social change means a positive change in peoples' lives - as they themselves define it.
Interview with Francis Egbokhare, African Languages Technology initiative (ALTI) of Nigeria
5.Strategic Thinking
- summaries of strategic thinking as the basis for communication, change and development policies and interventions in Africa.
i.e.
Disentangling HIV/AIDS STIGMA in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia
6.Events Calendar
- summaries of conferences, congresses, roundtables, training courses, workshops, seminars, etc., that address issues of communication for development and social change in Africa, in the format of a calendar.
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Entertainment-Education and the Global African Experience, Athens, USA Apr 15-17 2004
African International Youth Summer Camp for Young Activists, Nairobi, Kenya, Aug 22-28 2004
7.Training
- summaries of training courses, workshops and seminars, that address issues of communication for development and social change in Africa, arranged by date and development issue addressed.
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Advances in Behaviour Change Communication for HIV/AIDS, Nairobi, Kenya, July 19-6 2004
Facilitating Development Course, Cape Town, South Africa, Sep 6 - Oct 8 2004
8.Materials
- summaries of handbooks, guides, reports, videos and other publications that address or are related to communication for development and social change in Africa.
Meeting The Sexual And Reproductive Health Needs Of Young People in Nigeria: A Guide For Action
* Please send us information about your projects, evaluations, edutainment strategies, social change articles, strategic thinking articles, events, courses and publications! Contact Anja Venth aventh@comminit.com
UPCOMING !!NEW!! SECTIONS
9. Awards & Funding Opportunities
You have indicated a need for information about funding opportunities and available awards to help support your work. Therefore, in the coming months we will launch two new sections on Soul Beat Africa.
Awards
- summaries of awards, prizes and scholarships for work in communication for change in Africa.
Funding Opportunities
- summaries of ongoing and periodic funding opportunities to support communication in Africa.
* Please send us information about awards, grants, scholarships, fellowships, and other funding opportunities!
Contact Anja Venth aventh@comminit.com
10. THE NEWSLETTER
The Soul Beat
Our bi-monthly newsletter, The Soul Beat, highlights information sent in from you, our network, and summarised on the Soul Beat Africa site. Each issue is distributed to a subscriber base of 5,000 communicators across Africa and the World. Several of our e-newsletters have focused on topical themes.
* Upcoming issues are planned focusing on communication related to Democracy, Human Rights, Telecentres, Radio and many more. If you have information related to any of these topics, or suggestions for theme based issues of The Soul Beat, please e-mail aventh@comminit.com
* Subscribe!
If you have not already subscribed to The Soul Beat, you can join our network of communicators using communication for change in Africa by filling in the online form
Do you have colleagues that would be interested in joining our network and sharing their information with Soul Beat readers? If so, please forward this e-mail to them. Many thanks!
SEARCHING
11. Keyword Search
You can easily find information relevant to you be using Soul Beat Africa's search function. You will see the keyword search box to search the whole site in the top left corner of every page. In addition, most individual sections provide the ability to search only that section by keyword, through a keyword search box in the white, middle portion of the page.
12. Custom Search
You may search the entire Soul Beat Africa site by pre-selected custom keywords. In addition, you may also search many individual sections by geography, issue, or type of communication tool!
SPECIAL FEATURES
13. Personalisation
You can customise the Home Page of Soul Beat Africa to reflect your personal and/or organisational interests and priorities. For example if your interests are Gender, Education and Television you can select those topical codes. Then, each day that you come to Soul Beat Africa the most recent information posted on the site relevant to those areas of interest will appear in this box. This creates a one-stop, daily service specifically relevant to your needs.
14. Page Reviews
Through a process of "Page Reviews", we hope to build a collective critical analysis of the information on The Soul Beat Africa site from the perspectives of people across the communication and development field. To review a page, click on the link "Review this page" at the top of the middle column of almost every page of the site, or, scroll to the bottom of the site and rate and comment on the page there. To read comments and reviews that others have submitted, click on the link "Read Reviews" at the top of the middle column of almost every page of the site.
* Please participate!
We want to hear what you have to say about Soul Beat Africa. Please also visit the comment page to let us know what you think
15. Make Soul Beat Africa YOUR Home Page!
Would you like to set Soul Beat Africa as your browser Home Page? Just click on "Set as home page" in the upper left corner of any page of The SB site. How about setting The SB Home Page as a Favorite instead? Just click on "Add to Favorites" in the upper left corner of any page of The CI site.
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The Soul Beat seeks to cover the full range of communication for development activities. Inclusion of an item does not imply endorsement or support by The Partners.
Please send material for The Soul Beat to the Editor - Anja Venth aventh@comminit.com
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