Association for the Advancement of Innovative Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Development

Village Scribe Association

 

The ECSPIRT Project

Project Description    Our Assignment    awareNet

A new interactive education and communication software awareNet

awareNet initially includes the following functions:

  1. Bullet friends network with profiles, status updates, notifications, etc

  2. Bullet discussion forums

  3. Bullet personal and syndicated picture galleries

  4. Bullet blogs and blog aggregation

  5. Bullet instant messaging (chat)

  6. Bullet user messaging (mail)

  7. Bullet image and file management

  8. Bullet shared calendar

  9. Bullet collaborative projects to encourage teamwork.

It is now being developed further in close cooperation with the learners to adapt it precisely to their needs while they learn the basic skills of how to use the computers. This method particularly motivates the learners to cooperate in a focused manner, because changes are visible immediately. Especially interesting is the fact that awareNet’s functionality will, for a large part, be determined by young inexperienced users. New insights of the perception of young African users may make awareNet a highly popular tool, helping bring Africa onto the Internet in an unprecedented manner and making generations of young Africans more aware of our global community. awareNet is free/libre open source software (FLOSS).



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awareNet on Google Code

Screenshot of a profile page on awareNet

Screenshot of a project page on awareNet