Events

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  […]

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 […]

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 […]