Empowering and training young girls on the use of web 2.0 and social media tools and educating them on cybersecurity issues
- At risk youth
- Education
- Information & communication technology
- Girls' development
- Mentorship
- Youth development
- Transparency
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Founding Story
Anju
Mangal
Pacific Island Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC)
, Suva
, Suva
More than 5 years
This organisation has received the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) award for the best participatory GIS community mapping project. It has also won other awards.
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
Access to technology, Access to education/training, Access to economic opportunity, Policy change/advocacy.
With the emergence of social media and web 2.0 tools, very few have thought of risks associated to using social media tools. The impact of my solution is not only on girls but majority of the women in working field who are still at the their youth age. Many organizations still don't understand what goes on across their networks, and don't have any clue about the online traffic patterns and also the potential risks. As a trainer, I am concerned about the state of training among our government ministry colleagues, especially on the use of social media tools. Through research and collaborative learning, there was great impact on engaging the best and creative young people. Through my training programs, young people want to produce, contribute and share through the use of social media. So i thought of leveraging and replicating the training program to include youths, especially young girls who could learn about the risks associated to using social media, especially facebook,blogs etc.
This training program will have an impact for more than 3 years. It is a process of all thinking and creativity. Our young girls will be able to memorise and learn how to solve problems through the first training programme. They will become trainers and will help other young girls to teach them how to use social media tools and how to think and not just tell them what to do. We need to involve the first trainees to be young mentors to the other girls. This will have a huge impact and also be sustainable. If you teach one, she will teach another and it will become a program of young mentors teaching other young girls who are at threat when they go online. They will become teachers and trainers and will advocate on the use of social media and the risks associated and also the implications.
Complete a needs assessment and survey on girls that are using Internet, identifying the real issues
Seek funding from other sources, donors or organisations that can assist with this project
Provide a complete proposal, set realistic timeframes, project budget/costs/resources, human capacity, training capacity
Look for more funding, more similar projects, more resources, outline costs and budget for sustainability purposes
Realistically do another assessment to see the initial impact and also to analyse the risks
Control/reduce project costs, ensuring that milestones are me, minimising risks, provide objective analysis
We have been able to seek partnership with organisations like UNESCO, SPC and other international donors that continue to assist us in small-micro projects.
The need to develop, print manuals and guidelines for young girls. Miscellaneous costs for printing and photocopying.