ICTs for Human Rights in Southern Africa - By Susan Bazilli

broadly disseminate the resources that are available so The tool has been helping non-technical users in the that NGOs working on all areas of human rights can social justice sector to capture, backup and protect their make use of them. [...] But it needs to be used with regional training that includes ongoing The Martus System includes the Martus Software for capacity building so that the technology assists in the entering information or testimonies for safekeeping and documentation of abuse and violations, where advo- organisation, Martus Server Software to backup data cates can make use of the information in laying com- offsite and. [...] women’s human rights issues – particularly violence against The findings indicate, not surprisingly, that the issue women, women’s access to ICTs, NGO capacity building, and is not the use of software per se, but the whole issue of social entrepreneurship. [...] She is the Co-Director of the International Women’s Rights Project, www.iwrp.org, and the capacity building in general. [...] One of the key findings is editor of Putting Women on the Agenda: Women, Law and that many organisations lack the capacity to even collect Constitutions in Southern Africa.