WSSD: Africa Pulse to play key role at Nasrec

Africa Pulse to provide civil society organisations with an easy-to-use online publishing platform during the World Summit on Sustainable Development....

Africa Pulse(www.africapulse.org), an open publishing portal for civil society communities in the SADC region, is set to provide civil society organisations with an easy-to-use online publishing platform during the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

The portal, which has the support of the WSSD Civil Society Secretariat, will be part of a three-pronged media approach by the Secretariat, which includes the internet, print and radio.

Africa Pulse uses state-of-the-art technology allowing organisations to publish content directly to the portal. It relies on a “bottom-up” publishing structure, inverting the dominant “top-down” editorial structures of traditional media, in an effort to stimulate and champion grassroots media and indigenous information.

During the Global People’s Forum at Nasrec, it will extend its primary aim – to provide a voice for civil society organisations throughout SADC - to all civil society organizations participating in the summit. It will be a space to publish press releases, news and views, a critical forum for interaction and debate on issues affecting us all. It is your space, to tell your story.

Africa Pulse will be working closely with both the official website for the WSSD Civil Society Secretariat, as well its print and radio media publications during the Summit. The Secretariat’s website (www.worldsummit.org.za) will focus on logistical information as well as press releases issued by the Secretariat.

Africa Pulse is a SANGONeT project, in collaboration with COSATU, SANGOCO, Women’sNet and the NCRF, as well as, from the region, MWENGO, TANGO, LINK NGO FORUM, and MACOSS, amongst others.

For more information on Africa Pulse, please contact Alan Finlay at SANGONeT at [email protected] or phone him on 011 838 6943.