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YouthComm
February 26, 2018 - February 27, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Date: 26-27 February 2018 Participants: 50 Together with ICANN and the Ministry of Information Communication and Technology, we organized this workshop to empower Namibian youth with deeper knowledge and understanding of the internet ecosystem and how it functions. Additionally, the workshop also aimed at strengthening Internet Governance matters in Namibia by creating local youth networks [...]
Online Violence Against Women Panel Discussion 2018
March 24, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 50 Violence against women online has become an increasing issue of concern in Namibia, and hence there was a need to raise awareness, especially on Women’s Month. In collaboration with the Namibia Women in Computing ISOC Namibia organized this panel discussion that amongst others highlighted legislation and legal instruments in curbing online violence but [...]
Wikipedia Women Editathon
April 24, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 11 Online content for Namibia is a key concern, but is also one of our founding aims. When ISOC’s Women’s Special Interest Group (SIG) reached out with this global outreach initiative to our chapter was only pleased to partake. The aim of the initiative was to edit as profiles of women on the Wikipedia [...]
Bloggers Workshop
May 7, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 31 The aim of this workshop was to train unemployed and student with blogging and coding skills and further empower them with digital security skills and an awareness of blogging on the African Continent and how that ties in with access and development of the internet. Thirty one (31) participants took part in [...]
Namibia Internet Governance Forum
November 6, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 110 Purpose of the Activity: The Chapter organized this national event with the support of the National Working Group for Internet Governance. This 1 and half day event brought together 110 participants made up of key players internet in Namibia and discussed different policy issues related to internet development in Namibia. The event held [...]
Submission Of Input For The National Broadband Policy
April 14, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: Chapter Officers Purpose of the Activity: In responding to the call by the Ministry of ICT to provide input on the draft Broadband policy, The Chapter provided input on this said policy with assistance from the Global Policy team. Our input – focused on the policy direction, its technical content as well as clarity [...]
IETF Remote Hubs (101 and 102)
March 20, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 35 + 37 72 participants todate have attended the IETF Viewing Hub 101 and 102. The purpose of the remote hub is to promote the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Namibia country with the aim to identify individuals who could contribute to the work at IETF from Africa at global level. The Hubs also aim to [...]
ISOC Chapterthon 2018
November 23, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 164 Teachers Purpose of the Activity: Our Chapter is taking part in the 2018 chapterthon through a project focusing on developing and distributing teaching materials to schools which raises awareness on Internet of Trust (IoT) Cybersecurity in local languages and multiple formats such as digital videos and audios by our member by our member [...]
Consequences Of Filming Accident Scenes And Circulating These Footages On Social Media
August 28, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 2 other panelists and moderator (and the entire country as an audience and participants via online and telephone engagements) Purpose of the Activity: To raise awareness on the opportunities and challenges of “ filming accident scenes and circulating these Footages on social media”. This provided an opportunity to provide a positive aspect of social [...]
Chapter Advocacy Meeting in Addis Abbaba
June 19, 2018 - June 21, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 26 Fellows Purpose of the Activity: The purpose was to be part of the members of the ISOC chapter representatives in the African region that came together and work on different ways of strengthening advocacy work in their respective countries as well as find ways of working with other chapters in the African region. [...]
Parliamentary Engagement
September 11, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 48 Purpose of the Activity: Our chapter President was invited to present in the National Council on an identified topic “Rural Women Optimizing ICT for Development”. This event was organized by the National Council of Namibia through its Women Caucus in preparation of their 5th Rural Women Parliament with Male as partner’s chamber from [...]
Namibia 5th ICT Summit
October 15, 2018 - October 17, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: over 150 Purpose of the Activity: This is a national summit is hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology to with the aim to bring together ICT industry players to dialogue and find solution to the national ICT issues in Namibia but also to showcase local services and innovations. ISOC Namibia was [...]
UPRoar & #FIFAfrica2018
September 25, 2018 - November 28, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: over 250 Purpose of the Activity: The Universal Periodic Review (UPRoar) was a two days capacity building workshop that happened as a side event of the Forum for Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica2018) that focused on supporting civil society organisations across Africa to engage with the UPR process through research, capacity development and developing [...]
Namibia Youth to Business Forum
March 10, 2018 @ 12:00 am - MODE: Twitter online discussion Purpose of the Activity: Our Chapter Coordinator who is also a well known,youth activist was invited to be a panelist for this online discussion organized by the international organization AIESEC. The online discussion discussed different innovative and creative ways that the Namibian youths can start out to in doing business and [...]
ISOC Meeting with New MICT Minister
May 24, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 6 Purpose of the Activity: The Chapter management met the newly appointed Minister of ICT, introducing the Chapter and its mandate and aims in Namibia. The meeting also provided an opportunity to engage on different issues related to the internet in Namibia and explored opportunities for partnerships. The minister also notified the Chapter about [...]
Tech Camp 2018
September 17, 2018 - September 19, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: over 100 Purpose of the Activity: Namibia hosted the 2019 TechCamp first time under the theme “CyberSecurity for Everyone”. The Techcamp brought in ICT industry key players from different SADC countries as well as other parts of the world to address cyber security issues both from policy level to technical part and our chapter [...]
Youth Conference 2018
October 17, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 87 Eighty seven (87) youths from all regions of Namibia congregated under one room and talk about the selected sustainable development goals (SGDs) and role of the youths in commit themselves to raise awareness on. The identified goals are were SDGs 3, 4 and 9. The Internet Society Namibia Chapter played a role in [...]
Media Literacy Training (MiLLi)
September 5, 2018 - September 15, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 50 This training targeted the youth and focused on media and information literacy both online and and offline. The training also equipped the youth with content creation skills through video production, as well as radio, photography skills. This workshop was organized by the Media and Information Literacy Learning Initiative (MiLLi) in collaboration with the [...]
World Press Freedom Day
July 24, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: Purpose of the Activity: As a follow up event to the main World Press Freedom day held in May, the organizing committee held this panel discussion and presentation with the purpose of highlighting the role of the Press in driving the SDGs but also aimed at engaging the Justice system as related to the [...]
Mandela Washington Fellows Day
May 5, 2018 @ 12:00 am - Participants: 20 Purpose of the Activity: This town hall dialogue was host by the Fellows of the Mandela Washington with the main topic of Accountability on youth unemployment in Namibia with the aim to engage key community stakeholders on key issues of youth unemployment and to probe relevant questions holding the stakeholders accountable to the [...]
Chapter Members Meeting & 1st Year Anniversary
November 24, 2018 - November 25, 2018 @ All Day -
WTI- Final Results
October 9, 2020 @ 12:00 am - On the 9th October 2020, Internet Society Namibia chapter in Partnership with https://missionspubliques.org hosted a one day citizen dialogue on the future of the internet in Namibia. The event was sponsored by the Internet Society Foundation and the European Union in Namibia. The dialogue brought ordinary Namibian citizens together to talk about the future of the [...]
Call for Researchers
December 20, 2022 @ All Day - The Internet Society Namibia Chapter (ISOC Namibia) invites interested researchers to join a research team conducting a national assessment of the Internet Universality Indicators. REQUIREMENTS 5+ years general policy/ academic research experience Prior research in Internet Rights, Openness, Accessibility, Multistakeholderalism & other cross cutting issues in technology such as Gender, Youth and Disability Excellent understanding [...]