Phambano Blog
Online Harassment | #16Days 2020
Everything else in Melissa's e-mail inbox was perfectly innocent on this day. Everything else about that day had been totally unremarkable. Until Jessica appeared on Melissa's screen: “I am single-minded enough to find you…and slit your throat from ear to ear.”...
Hate Speech | #16Days 2020
Hate speech – The expression of hatred or encouragement of any form of violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disadvantages. It can include cursing, insulting and directed slurs...
Flaming | #16Days 2020
Flaming (online fighting) is Cyberbullying! It occurs when someone posts about or directly sends insults, name-calling, displays verbal hostility and profanity to their target. Flaming is similar to trolling, but will usually be a more direct attack on a victim to...
Digital Abuse | #16Days 2020
Digital abuse happens when someone takes control over your devices such as your phone and computer and this could take on many forms. In a healthy relationship, all communication is respectful, whether in person, online or by phone. It is never ok for someone to do or...
Blackmail | #16Days 2020
25 year old Wilson won’t forget the moment a brief window of pleasure turned into a nightmare. He’d met a young woman on a dating app, and she seemed to really like him. The whole time he thought she was just interested in meeting up. After meeting on mobile flirting...
Economic Abuse | #16Days 2020
"When Elmira* left Iraq, with her husband and children, she hoped for a better life in Canada. Shortly after arriving, she got help applying for disability and child benefits. But she doesn’t see a penny of that money. In fact, Elmira doesn’t even have access to her...
Online Stalking | #16Days 2020
Online Stalking is the constant monitoring of your activities and it is a crime. Perpetrators use the internet, email or social media to stalk, harass or even threaten a person by sending harassing emails, messages, or tags in comments of social media posts just to...
[INVITATION] Virtual Online Safety Training for Parents and Educators – South Africa
With the increasing trend of children interacting online, it is important to provide relevant information to parents and educators to help them enable children to take appropriate measures to stay safe online while exploring the internet with confidence. ...
Introducing Wix for Nonprofits (South Africa)
Wix is designed to help you make a website you are proud of, no matter your requirements or skill level. Anyone can increase their online presence by building a beautiful site — and the fantastic discount through TechSoup South Africa makes amazing websites more...
Prevent Security Risks: Upgrade to the Latest Version of Windows
In January 2020, Microsoft discontinued support and software updates for Windows 7. In addition, Microsoft will no longer offer support and new security patches for Office 2010, starting in October of this year. If you continue to use these products after support has...
World Speech Day and #Tech2EndGBV Announce A Digital Campaign
World Speech Day (WSD) and Phambano Technology Development Centre NPC proudly announce their partnership and launch of a Digital Literacy Campaign for the WSD Women’s pillar of World Speech Day addressing Gender Based Violence. Already plagued by Gender-Based...
Introducing Dropbox for Nonprofits (South Africa)
TechSoup South Africa is excited to announce a new offer for our nonprofit community: Dropbox. Dropbox is an online file-sharing, content and team management, and collaboration service. Users can access and share their files across all devices, collaborating in real...
GBV Is Not A New Pandemic – But We Need A Cure.
Whether we accept change or change unsettles us, we all need to find ways to adapt to a new way of life in 2020. While the arrival of the current global pandemic might have come with some enforced changes that we have had to make in our lives, we must not forget the...
Zoom Bundle Options – How To Decide Which Option Is Best For Your Nonprofit Organisation
TechSoup has partnered with Zoom to provide discount bundle options to nonprofit organisations. Currently, two bundle options are available: Zoom Meetings Pro Plan Bundle and Zoom Meetings Business Plan Bundle. To assist you in making the best decision, we have...
How Technology is Helping More Organisations Work From Home
Working from home has become a reality for many of us. With vast technology tools and resources available, keeping in touch with our teams, volunteers, CEO’s and beneficiaries while working remotely is easier than ever before. Whether it’s the Internet or phone we are...
Technology Safety Plan For Those Subjected To (And Survivors) Of GBV
Gender-based violence is very real in every community, even online communities. Technology is used by perpetrators to harass and abuse victims more and more. But used smartly, the same technology can be used to protect victims and empower survivors of GBV! We...
Online Safety
Online safety: striving to be safe on the internet and the act of maximizing a user's awareness of personal safety and security risks to private information and property associated with using the internet, and the self-protection from computer crime. For women and...
Online Manipulation
Online Manipulation is when someone, uses the internet or online tools to trick, pressure or force you into doing something you wouldn’t usually do. The abuser / groomer will make you feel good, admired and appreciated. He/She will work very hard to make an emotional...
Build A Better World With Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications. These services help organisations move...
Image-based Violence and Cyberbullying
For those unfamiliar with the term, image-based violence or revenge porn, refers to persons who maliciously share naked, nude or sexually explicit photos of someone else without their permission. It can be distributed via social media, text messages, emails or even...
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