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Women in South Africa, Domestic Abuse, and Mobile Phones

January 12, 2007 | KatrinVerclas
file under:
domestic abuse, fahamu, mobile phones, mobileactive, sms, South Africa
Following on the heels of the BBC feature on the revolutionary growth and availablity of mobile phones in Kenya, OmyNews features a new project-to-be in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province.  The UmNyango Project of Fahamu, a MobileActive participant, equips rural women in the Province with free text messaging to report on violence against them and their children, and report other abuses.  The project coordinator, Anil Naidoo, says: ""This is the first time in KwaZulu Natal that we know of, where SMS technology has been used to directly empower women in this way. What makes the project unique is that women will be able to assert their constitutional rights using accessible and sustainable technology." The project will train women how to send and receive messages in their local language.   According to Naidoo, the sms platform "will complement the network of rural legal advice centers that form part of the UmNyango Project. Very importantly though, the SMS platform allows women to anonymously report on gender-based violence without fear of reprisal. We hope that women will be able to assert their constitutional rights through this project."

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BungeSMS

file under:
advocacy, fahamu, government, kenya, sms, Voting, Democracy, and Civic Engagement
operates in:
Kenya

contact:
http://www.bungesms.com/

From the BungeSMS website:

Bunge SMS is a mobile phone based service by Made in Kenya Network that combines the internet and mobile telephony with the aim of Empowering every Kenyan to influence Local Governance in their Constituencies.

You can report corruption and environmental degradation, influence constituency project choices and monitor development activities.

Send an SMS to 3454 and tell your Member of Parliamnet what he or she must do for YOU.

Demand your share of funds - such as:

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References / Past Projects

Bunge SMS is a mobile phone based campaign by Made in Kenya Network that combines the internet and mobile telephony with the aim of Empowering every Kenyan to influence Local Governance in their Constituencies.

The Bunge SMS campaign is also part of the testing of the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit developed by Tactical Technology collective in collaboration with Fahamu. The Toolkit was developed based on input members of the PanAfrican Mobile Activists Network (PAMONet).

The testing of the Mobile Advocacy Toolkit is conducted courtesy of financial support from Hivos and Fahamu.