As I am getting ready to attend the World Wide Web Conference in Port Elizabeth this week I was reminded of a paper we presented at the same conference in Cape Town last year titled “Blogging as a change agent to empower citizens in communities with tension“. Below is a short abstract from the paper: [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Mobile Counselling services via The Grid
Posted: 31st August 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Mobile, Mobile Counselling, The Grid
Today we’ve extended our mobile counselling service to the 800,000+ users on “The Grid” mobile social network platform (Thanks Nic Haralambous for stats update). This means that users on The Grid will be able to access our Drug Advice Support, Debt Counselling and HIV/AIDS counselling services. Users on the Grid have to import contacts and [...]
National AIDS Helpline Mobile Chat service growing
Posted: 30th August 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, HIV/AIDS, Mobile, Mobile Counselling, mxit
The collaboration with Cell-Life and National AIDS Helpline (managed by Lifeline) ,using our Advice Support Network (ASN) software, offering mobile counselling in the area of HIV/AIDS is clearly showing signs of growth during the “Pre-pilot”. Thursday the counsellors had conversations with 16 people and supported 635 messages during their 2 hour session. We are looking [...]
BBC Interview – Drug Advice Support
Posted: 27th August 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Community in Tension (CiT), DAS, drug counselling, media, Mobile, Mobile Counselling, mxit
Tuesday afternoon (25 August 2009) we had the privilege to share our experiences on how we using mobile phones to support people impacted by the problem of drugs. I had an interview on the BBC World Service and you can listen to it online. The interview about Drug Advice Support (DAS) starts at 42:32 (See [...]
Drug Advice Support – Interview with Advisors
Posted: 25th August 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, DAS, drug counselling, Mobile Counselling, mxit
Interview with the BBC
Posted: 24th August 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, DAS, drug counselling, media, reconstructed
Tomorrow Drug Advice Support will be featured on the BBC World Service – News Hour Radio programme at 12h06 GMT / 14h06 (South African time). This is a wonderful opportunity to share our experiences of how mobiles phones can be used as tools to support the needs of people in need. You can listen live [...]