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Pamela's Blog

We got it wrong - now we're getting it right.

Dadamac Foundation is a registered charity and we used to think it only had "something to report" if it had raised some money (such as in 2012 when we supported the " Fast Tractor " appeal). We were wrong to think that, and now we know better. We (the three current trustees) considered what would be lost if we wound up Dadamac Foundation and stopped all the related things we're doing. We recognised that what we do is more about information and communication than raising money - but at present the "non-financial" work doesn't show up under Dadamac Foundation, despite...

Loomio in GN21 and First Thursday

I'm experimenting with loomio . Here's the story so far: 1 - GlobalNet21 and loomio 2 - More about online spaces 3 - GlobalNet21 Africa and Change group and loomio 4 - First experiment - is anyone actively using loomio in Africa and Change group? 5 - GN21 Africa and Change online - ideally in collaboration with F2F meetups 6 - Can I create an interconnected GN21 Africa and Change group F2F and online? 7 - Connecting GN21 Africa and Change to other UK-Africa initiatives 8 - Mark, GN21 online and loomio 9 - First Thursday Group linking to GN21...

#LandscapeOfChange and wierd by choice - Notes for Fred Garnett

Hi Fred - Last week you and I were talking generally about Wikiquals and also about my personal study of the #LandscapeOfChange. I told you I'd written some posts here in the past about it, but not for a while. Today I came across some links which put me in mind of Landscape of Change (LoF) posts where I've sung the praises of my "crazy-sane" friends. I think the links will provide useful references if I need to explain some aspects of LoF: Seth Godin's book "We Are All Wierd" . Chris Brogan's book The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth:...

Dadamacademy - Open letter to Andrius Kulikauskas

Hi Andrius - I'm gathering together some thoughts and resources ready to start studying under your supervision. 1 - An online learning experiment 2 - Expectations 3 - Various levels of complexity and area(s) of study 4 - Previous work - and some ongoing work 1 - An online learning experiment We've agreed to doing this online learning experiment together, and we've exchanged a couple of emails about it (in the public domain) and had a couple of Skype calls. We've agreed that I'm your student and you are my supervisor. Exactly what that will look like will emerge over...

Dadamac Foundation April Update

This is where Dadamac Foundation is now, written as my personal preparation for the next strategy and planning meeting (our fourth) on Saturday April 12th. 1 - From emergence to strategy 2 - Registered UK Charity 3 - Our unique strength 4 - Geographical reach 5 - Pioneers in effective communication 6 - Horizontal not hierarchical structures 7 - Open Knowledge 8 - Accessing the Dadamac Foundation Knowledge Commons 9 - We don't have "failures", we have "rich learning experiences" 10 - Not just a store of information - a vibrant community 11 - What about the practicalities? 12 -...

Looking for my own information agent

Walking home tonight I was imagining how different my life would be if I had my own information ("info") agent. How would I describe the job to a potential applicant for a start? I guess the easiest thing it to compare it to a diary secretary - but instead of filling in the diary before-hand my info-agent would fill it in for me afterwards. More like Samuel Pepys diary - but with tags and suchlike Thanks to my info-agent I'd have the kind of journal that Samuel Pepys had as his diary - but I wouldn't have to write it...

Dadamac Foundation Information Agents

The idea of "information agents" has been emerging gradually within Dadamac. It's clear enough now to explore openly, to see where it has come from, and consider how it might develop. I'm expecting that information agents will play key roles in creating the Dadamac Foundation Knowledge Commons in 2014 and beyond. It's not a short explanation, so I've numbered the sections for ease of use. Prototype work supporting a changemaker was done with John Dada and Fantsuam Foundation but future work will include other projects and locations. 1 - Possible work, paid and unpaid 2 - The hidden work of...

Flowing together and separately - Dadamac 2014

Dadamac is at another transformative stage. It's time for a review of who we are, where we are, and where we seem to be going. This description is a "beginners guide" and also an overview for people who already know some parts of Dadamac well and want to see where they belong in the bigger picture. It covers how things flow together and where they go separate ways (so it's not short). The sections are: 1 - Dadamac - the name 2 - John and Pamela working together 3 - Other influences and Dadamac Open Knowledge 4 - Dadamacademy 5...

An accidental ICT4D practitioner

Sometimes I need to explain where I fit on the spectrum of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development). The most accurate description is that I'm an "accidental ICT4D practitioner". With hindsight I can describe my work in a tidy "CV" kind of a way, although in reality it's been chaotic and emergent (and is unpaid so not full-time or neatly labelled). It's grown from doing things to help my friends, and has increasingly taken over my life. Here's one possible tidy version: 2001-2004 acting director of Oke-Ogun Community Agenda 2000 plus - an ICT based African Welfare and Development...

"Death of ICT4D" - Tony Roberts, Ken Banks and me.

Tony Robert's blog on Death of ICT4D 'Greatly Exaggerated' and the reference he makes to Ken Banks sounding the death knell of ICT4D for several years, prompts me to add my perspective on ICT4D. A non-academic perspective I'm not part of academia, or any other "expenses paying" organisation. This means that if I do go to any ICT4D conferences I have to foot the bills myself and I have to go in my own time, so I don't usually go. December 2010 was an exception. ICTD conferences are held about every 18 months and move from country to country. ICTD2010...

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