Kapital Corporation

lf-employment opportunities and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing through self-directed, self-taught tutors of the Kapital Virtual Academy Community. Kapital is concerned with conflict mitigation, media literacy, the development of peaceful methods of association to help cement the process of nation building, and community development, media literacy. The Kapital Movie Community comprises of Young Filmmakers, Information Communication Technologist, Artists, Graphics Designers and Web Developers, advocating the use of Open Technology and moving forward with a passionate clarity of purpose into the future. Our latest project include, the South Sudan #PeaceHack Camp is a Kapital Movie initiative supported by United Nations Agency for International Development USAID, through Internews, South Sudan, in collaboration with the r0g_Agency for Open Culture and critical transformation. Kapital Community Comprises threes basic arms called it departments if you like. the Kapital Movie Industry Corporation, Kapital Virtual Academy- Department of Media Literacy and General Education and kHub-Department of Creative Technology (Juba’s Technologic and Innovation Hub)

The Kapital Movie Industry Corporation, which deals with the production films and document are more related video and audio production. We have audio studio which young artists, and musician can interact produce songs in and right away have their video produced. The creative means also have the opportunities to get mentorship in building their career. The Kapital Virtual Academy, KVA, concerns purely with education and media literacy. The KVA’s latest project is the south Sudan #PeaceHack camp, This early year, we are running series of peace building workshop, the South Sudan #PeaceHack Camp in which we will be conducting media literacy for 40 young south Sudanese under theme of Video Activism and ICT Activism. The Workshops are literally aimed at fighting hate speech that is rampant in the use of social media that contribute in adding salt to already existing wound of this young nation.

#PeaceHack Camp is to teach youths on effective use of the Internet and the related ICT Skills and Tools including Open Educational Resource to build peace. In this way we will be able to reduce the use of social media platform to incite or fuel existing conflict. We know very well that the recent conflict that erupted in 15, December 2013, to some extends is attributed to negative use of the Internet by the youths to fuel the continuation of the crisis South Sudan is facing. South Sudan, as a young nation, is facing a lot of problems. Political instability and illiteracy happen to be drowning and swallowing the sovereignty, peace and prosperity of this young nation. As a result of this more effort is need to educate the youths in the use of Internet to build peace rather than use it to incite violence. In the #PeaceHack camp, where youths coming from across the 10 states of South Sudan and the international participants will put their heads down to foster ways of how best Internet can be used to fight social media extremism. The youths will also be mentored in career development geared into creating sustainable self-employment opportunities. This will address the problem of idle youths, who have no skills to apply in the rapidly changing south Sudan. South Sudan is a consuming nation with no manufacturing industries; as of this the country is hit by economic crisis, which renders no hope for energetic youths to engage in other than resorting to criminal act. This is obviously a big issue to solve but with your moral support and effort, I believe we can make a difference in South Sudan. So my dear brothers and sisters, join us in the making of South Sudan #PeaceHack Camp that is due to come in November 2015.