All South Africans are acutely aware of the effects of crime and violence on our society – but not all of us contribute to doing something about it.
Which is why Flow is proud to have built a great website for Saferspaces, which acts as a community platform for the sharing of ideas against violence and crime.
Saferspaces is an online platform that gives the public and safety practitioners in South Africa a place to connect, share knowledge and learn from each other.
Flow developed the website for the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – Germany’s international development body – as part of its violence and crime prevention programme (VCP), and is aimed at people who are interested and involved in safety and security, and violence prevention in South Africa.
Saferspaces features projects that are doing great work in terms of making communities safer, information on the main causes of crime and violence in communities and tips how they can be stopped, as well as guidelines, manuals and practical tools to assist safety practitioners and community members in crime prevention.
Roshni Nana, who was project manager on the Saferspaces project says, “The site is built to engage with the public. The client wants people to share how they’re creating safer environments within their communities.”
The website’s focus is to be the main online portal for information and a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing on violence prevention and community safety in South Africa.
“We came up with the name Saferspaces, designed the logo and also came up with the slogan ‘Working together for a safer South Africa’,” says Roshni.
Developer Darren Caboz put a lot of work into organising the content management system (CMS) in order for the public to be able to use it to upload tools and share ideas.
“We developed a member section whereby each user can upload information, either as a resource or project profile. We also have admin moderation for each submission by a user, and the ability to browse each entry on a map is a very cool feature,” says Darren
Anyone interested in crime and violence prevention can register on the Saferspaces website, and start connecting with safety practitioners and organisations across the country.