Women are being urged to participate in the upcoming Cyber Dialogues, which makes use of ICT to create an opportunity to conduct sustained campaigns against gender violence.
"The Cyber Dialogues, themed 'Peace begins at home - unite against violence and HIV/AIDS` is scheduled from 24 November to 10 December," says Gender Links deputy director Kubi Rama.
"A central hub at national level will be used to combine facilitated interactive dialogues where experts and decision-makers will be available from noon to 1pm daily, to answer questions in a live chat room," says Rama.
"The idea is to harness communication capacity within IT, particularly encouraging women to speak out against violence and abuse.
"The reality is that a number of people living in impoverished rural areas do not have access to IT infrastructure."
However, she adds that Cyber Dialogues will endeavour to link people, including rural women, through multipurpose community centres, facilitating discussions at a community level.
"During the 16-day campaign, Gender Links will have in place a bulletin board where individuals can post messages, as well as a video link-up between all those who participate in the last day of the campaign," says Rama.
Cyber Dialogues is coordinated by Southern African Gender and Media Networks led by Gender Links, in partnership with Government Communication and Information Systems.
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