The United Nations in South Africa haspartnered withFunzi, a mobile learning service basedin Finland,and the governments of theFinland and South Africa to expand animportant and innovative education initiative.Funzi has designed a course entitled 'COVID-19: Adapt and thrive', as a part of the country's official coronavirus response initiative.
This is a course to help deliver hope in the form of essential information and learning opportunities, to people in crisis situations. FUNZI has the experience, the research, and their activities have shown that mobile information technology is the most effective mechanism to reach the majority of the population and disseminate information. Access to relevant and factual information has a calming effect during times of uncertainty.
Date:Wednesday, 22 April 2020.
Time: 11h00 - 11h30 AM Johannesburg
Topic: Virtual Media Launch of FUNZI
AGENDA
Facilitator – Krivani Pillay
11h00 – 11h05 Welcome – Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Resident Coordinator, UN in South Africa
11h05 – 11h10 Visual presentationof FUNZI–Aape Pohjavirta
11h10 – 11h30 Q & A session with journalists
REGISTERin advance for this webinar: https://undp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gs9zN4SoRZ6NoI_qq_ZTZQ