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The Digital Health Ninjas at @citizencode 🔥 @doctor.siya @k_marais @thereallisaadams 👌🏾SWIPE to the end for a treat 🤓➡️

Meet Tshegofatso Senne (@mbongomuffin ) our resident Content Engineer ✍🏽Tshego is a genderqueer feminist who leads on our partnered work designing chat bot service products and strategy. They write, research and speak on issues concerning feminism, sexual and reproductive health and pleasure, consent, rape culture, healing, race, intersectional social justice and pop culture. They run @heyhedone bringing people together to explore and understand the power of pleasure in every part of our lives. They work with young people across the country, hosting workshops focusing on sexual health, pleasure, consent and rape culture as well as kink and BDSM. Their TEDx talk ‘Reimagining BDSM’ takes a look at the tenderness and love that reveals itself in a lifestyle often only seen through an extreme lens. . . . #contentstrategy #contentcreator #digitalcontent #contentengineering #chatbot #tech #tech4good #tech4africa #africatech #citizencode #technologist #ict4d #srhr #pleasurepolitics

In this finale episode of this short video series, we close off with Lenina Rasool Director & Producer of The Womxn Show, Journalist and Social Activist. Lenina leans into the problems with how Gender Based Violence is reported on from a journalists perspective and why we have a 8% conviction rate for rape. Lenina describes Gender Based Violence as service delivery issue in South Africa and gives invaluable tips for how to approach the justice system by empowering yourself with the right knowledge. Thank you Lenina for joining us in this series and contributing so much of your own experience in hacking this system to make it work for women. You can find The Womxn Show on Cape Town TV. @lenina.rassool 📹: @zoeyblackza #childrensrights #womensrights #justicesystem #southafrica #gbv #childabuse #sexualabuseawareness #sexual assault # tech4good #techforsocialgood #supportwomen #citizencode #justushere

For more information, see: (@kagsmugo ) Mugo, T. K. 2020. Teaching sex times: A space for conversation and knowledge building about sex. In: Nyeck, S. N. 2020. Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies. Oxon: Routledge. . . . . #africansexualities #africa #tech4africa #sexualhealth #sexualhealthawareness #sexualities #health #anthropologie #technology #gender #digitalculture #ux #uxdesign #ict4d

In this episode, we look at a mother’s perspective when dealing with the trauma of a child falling victim to sexual assault. Sexual violence in families often cause isolation and shame. Our communities deeply lack the ability to properly support each other in these unfortunate events. Mother’s are sadly overlooked by the justice systems in South Africa when seeking the proper protection. We hope this video gives voice to the mother’s of domestic violence and inspires the community to be citizens who are stronger allies to women and children. 📹: @zoeyblackza #childrensrights #womensrights #justicesystem #southafrica #gbv #childabuse #sexualabuseawareness #sexualassault #tech4good #techforsocialgood #supportwomen #citizencode #justushere

Join the conversation by adding the @girleffect Big Sis Chat Bot to WhatsApp +27600747837 & type “Hi” to get started 🤳🏽 Thank you for having us on board this journey of building meaningful technology solutions for women and girls! . . . #sexualhealth #sexualhealthawareness #worldsexualhealthday #worldsexualhealthmonth #womensrights #girlsrights #tech4good #tech4africa #africatech #inclusivetechnology #contentstrategy #humancentereddesign #ux #productdesign #chat #chatbot #ai #machinelearning

At Citizen Code, we do not create technology unless we have considered the contexts in which people live. This ensures that we deliver the best possible technology that fits the specific needs of our end-users. Our resident Anthropologist @k_marais is a constant guide as we navigate through building meaningful tech within the African context. . . . . #sexualties #africansexuality #sexualhealth #sexualhealthawareness #sexualhealthawarenessmonth #worldsexualhealth #worldsexualhealthday #worldsexualhealthday2021 #tech4africa #techforgood #usercentereddesign #uxdesign #ux #decolonize #anthropologie #equalpleasure #pleasureishealth #pleasureactivism #pleasurepositive #sexpositivity #sexpositiveculture #queer #lgbtq

Meet @k_marais, our resident anthropologist and researcher. Kylie is currently pursuing her PhD in which she explores the sociocultural factors that influence women’s perceptions and experiences of sex, sexuality, and sexual pleasure. As a pleasure activist, she believes that pleasure is a human sexual right and an essential part of sexual health that can be harnessed as a tool for empowerment and liberation. #worldsexualawarenessday #sexualhealth #pleasureactivist #sexualpleasure #pleasure #worldsexualhealthday2021 #worlsexualhealthmonth #citizencode

Today is World Sexual Health Day! First celebrated in 2010, this important day aims to bring attention to sexual health around the globe. For us at Citizen Code, this day also forces us to ask vital questions about #technology and #access to sexual health information. Swipe to read more 👉 #worldsexualhealthday #sexualawareness #sexualhealthawareness #worldsexualhealthday2021 #wshd2021 #turniton #enciendelo

Everyone deserves dignified access to technology! New logos 😍

From the days of working under a bridge together {Codebridge}, to him packing up & heading to Silicon Valley to work with Facebook & a long stretch at Google UK. @mrhamdulay is official Co-Founder for Citizen Code🚀 Here's to building out many great things together!

We love working on meaningful strategies with impact organisations ♥️ This week we started doing thought-partnership with an impact org partner on training their AI chatbot to better interpret GBV phrases used by teenage girls when seeking help to make sure that they’re understood and helped appropriately. Having technologists who are closest to the problems vulnerable girls in South Africa face is invaluable! 🇿🇦

Creating new tables in this technology space and making space for the community to have a seat ✊🏽🚀 . . . . #technology #techtransformation #techteams #diversity #africatechnology #businessstrategy #productdesign #developerspace #citizencode

We’re always questioning whether technology is actually the most impactful solution to a problem. We have to know when it possibly creates further problems or divides in communities 🤖👆🏽 . . . #technologyforafrica #africatech #technology #tech #ict4d #userexperience #softwaredeveloper #citizencode

Strategy workshops are our favourites ✏️ In our collabs we love working with representatives of diverse fields like Anthropolgy, Children’s Rights Attorneys, User Design, Content Strategists. Intersectionality and representation across design teams matter 🤍

In this episode, attorney Tazneem Splinter, dealing with Family and Children matters offers some advice and tips to women when seeking assistance from the courts for protection from harmful spaces and people. Tazneem looks at how to prepare yourself when writing a statement, your rights when approaching the courts and how to download the protection order application form online ahead of time via https://www.justice.gov.za/forms/dva/dva_form%2002.pdf #citizencode #citizenssolvingcitizenproblems #gbv #womensrights #protectionorder #gbvsouthafrica #justushere #womensmonth 📹 @zoeyblackza

As part of Women’s Month and our short video series #JustUsHere, Magistrate Joy Van De Heyde shares insights into what a protection order is, who can apply for it, what it protects you from and other useful insights about the process. 🎥: @zoeyblackza #womensmonth #womensrights #gbv #protectionorders #southafrica

It’s official, hello world 👋🏽, we’re finally here to share our adventure of building technology to enrich the lives of those who need it most 🚀 to find out more about us visit www.citizencode.co.za 🌎