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HOCIP H onours O utreach and C ommunity I nvolvement P rogramme

HOCIP H onours O utreach and C ommunity I nvolvement P rogramme. Jean-Paul Van Belle. Why?. What ?. Who?. Where?. When?. 12-March: Memorandum of Understanding 28-May: Full final report 13-June: Sponsor’s report. Examples.

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HOCIP H onours O utreach and C ommunity I nvolvement P rogramme

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  1. HOCIPHonoursOutreach and Community Involvement Programme Jean-Paul Van Belle

  2. Why?

  3. What?

  4. Who?

  5. Where?

  6. When? • 12-March: Memorandum of Understanding • 28-May: Full final report • 13-June: Sponsor’s report

  7. Examples • Design an electronic communication solution for the Tuan Yusuf Social Development and Learning Centre in Schaapkraal. • Train high school learners and teachers in basic computer skills and lab management under auspices of SHAWCO. • Creation of a contacts database and integrate with a mailing system for the Center of the Book. • Act as business analyst and mentor disadvantaged learners in the City of Cape Town’s Kulisa project. • Design a website for a church to allow members to access bible studies and electronically search the bible. • Develop a daily task management system for the Domestic Animal Rescue Group. • Capture and interpret data pertaining to structural fires for the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme.

  8. Examples • Develop a browser-based children tracking database for the James House Children’s Home. • Build a website to assist in reunion of patients and friends post-treatment (JHB Hospital). • Static website and student pep talks for Mananga College (Swaziland). • Develop a society website template to allow for easy updating of any UCT SRC-linked society’s website. • Develop an employee and sponsor database for the Self-Help for the Healing Business. • Develop an SMS/internet contacting system for the Baha’i Community. • Assist with the PC literacy programme for the youth leadership rehabilitation programme of Polsmoor Prison.

  9. Examples • Tutor students on the introductory IS course of the 4-year BAdmin degree at Tsiba Education. • Set up a library management system for the Islamic Youth Society’s Library. • Develop a booking system for FamSA. • Set up a website and content management system for the Hope and Dream Trust. • Create a database for a UCT student residence. • Develop a lost and found animals portal for the Animal Rescue Organisation. • Teach computer literacy classes for St Joseph’s Outreach Programme in Rondebosch. • Design newsletter and event templates for the Sunflower Fund, the Fundraising arm of the Bone Marrow Registry, Tokai.

  10. Examples • Assisting in teaching and supervision of computer based learning tasks as well as computer maintenance at "Eros Special School • Build a budgeting system for the "Fikelela” HIV/Aids Outreach project & T-Bag designs. • Developing a webpage for "Home Start SA, A NGO dedicated to helping families with young children • Website and Stock system for the storeroom of Leliebloem House Children’s Home • Assist people in using the computers at Meadowridge Public Library • Teach grade 11’s I.T skills at the Shawco IT & Sunfield Home in Khayelitsha. • Develop a website & HR management system for Silver Lining Youth Ministries (SLYM) • Help teach computer literacy classes in the "Siyathuthuka Computer Literacy Programme, Cape Town

  11. Examples • Computer Skills training for young adults (age 18-35) for SHAWCO – Masizikhulise Project at Nyanga Training Centre • Provide IT services to the UCT Disability Service including conversion of study materials for the blind students. • Maintain computer lab of Rylands High School • Implementation of InterGreat system for Go For Gold NPO Education Development Programme • Install and implement database and information system for Pioneer Printers who produce Braille books for the blind • Build a simple website for the Bell Valley Initiative for HIV/AIDS affected and infected children in the Helderberg and farmland areas around Stellenbosch. • Developing a system for Cart Horse Protection Association in Visual Studio and using an access database. • Running workshops for the Academic Development Programme students at UCT

  12. REFERENCES • Van Belle, J.P. & Smith, D.S. A Community Outreach Programme for Information Systems Students at the University of Cape Town. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Southern Africa Computer Lecturers Association, Kasane (Botswana), 3-6 July 2005. • “Students behind bars” Monday Paper, Volume 24 No 30, 21 November 2005. • “IS Honours students make their mark” Monday Paper, Volume 23 No 21 2nd August 2004. • http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/Courses/INF4014W/HOCIP.asp • http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/Resources/HOCIP.asp

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