Location: South Africa

I am a 50 y old woman originally from Belgium but living in South Africa for the past 15 years. I work momentarily as the fundraiser and sponsorships coorindator of The McGregor Waldorf School. I was the kindergarten teacher there for 10 years. Storytelling is a very important tool in our teaching and I love to tell stories whether it is 'a story' or a bits of my life story. McGregor is a small village and the legacy of Apartheid is very much alive in the sense that people are feeling less than others, feeling angry and projecting that anger, not accepting one another whole heartedly. I have thought for a long time that if we can only share our stories, without comments or questioning, then it would help to bring us all together much more. The children in our school also come from underpriviliged situations and if they have the platform to tell their stories it would most certainly help to regain a sense of self.

I am OD consultant, currently living in Cape Town, South Africa

I understand conversation to be the most important process of organisational life and believe that the only way that organisations and groups of people change is when they change the conversations and the stories that are being told in organisations

I'm male, 44 years old, and stories, listening and telling, have always been part of my culture as a central part of the learning experience in context of oral and textual tradition. Stories for change and that can inspire, is all the more needed to bring effect to what it is to be human; and this is needed to be understood for insight to drive personal and collective change at community level and beyond. I believe participation in forums like these are critical for development practitioners and activists for social justice and participatory democracy to be effective in presenting new ideas. The story has universal appeal and significance since time immemorial. Listen...carefully...there a story on the breeze and it wants to be told...

I am seeking content to broadcast on Cape Town Community Television.

I am the Executive Director of Women'sNet - a non-profit based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Women'sNet is a feminist organisation, focused on voice, and information for women, using ICTs as a tool. We work in South Africa and the region.

We have run a number of DS trainings in South Africa with participants from Africa. We have worked with the Centre for Digital Story Telling.