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Welcome to your new role

Submitted by Pamela on 2 September 2009 - 10:33am

This is my Reply to Vijay's last letter Hi Vijay I am excited about our open-letter, learn-by-doing, project. Thank you for agreeing to give it a go - and welcome to your new role in the Dadamac Community. Maybe, like you, I should start by giving my impression of our initial exchange of emails. I was glad to hear from you. You have skills that we really need here. You are a professional communicator - and interested in effective use of websites and such like. I am an information bottle-neck trying to make Dadamac visible and understandable through this website...

Open Letter - Vijay and Pam

Submitted by vijay on 1 September 2009 - 10:30pm

This is the start of a Dadamac Learners LearnByDoing project which Vijay and Pam are going to do by writing open letters ~~~~~~ Hi Pam, It's been only three days since I got in touch with you (courtesy www.km4dev.org ) and have already exchanged more than three long mails with you, and become a member of the Dadamac community. I am a journalist and communications professional based in Delhi. I have worked for top-of-the-line Indian publications (such as India Today and BusinessWorld); researched and covered news /features for television; implemented communication strategies for an international environmental NGO (the World Wide...

Open Letter - Vijay and Pam

Submitted by vijay on 1 September 2009 - 10:30pm

Africa Rural Connect – Results

Submitted by dadamac on 16 August 2009 - 7:17pm

The results are out for the Africa Rural Connect competition and the winners are..... Zittnet! Many thanks to all who voted, and encouraged others to vote. We also understand and respect the views of those who have issues about these kind of competitions and will not vote in them. Some of these issues are discussed later. The details Back to the results. It was a close call. Last week “we” (ie our friends at Zittnet plus their supporters) were struggling for second place, and the leaders were way out ahead. Then, amazingly, we managed to start closing the gap. By...

Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited - the Connection

Submitted by dadamac on 11 August 2009 - 8:38pm

We have been asked to explain the relationship between Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited. It is causing some confusion for people who think it must be like the relationship between, for instance, Ford and the Ford Foundation or Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (i.e step one: become a great commercial success; step two: share the resulting financial wealth through philanthropy). Dadamac is very different. We didn't start on the commercial side and then create the foundation. We started with our voluntary work and are now at the start of building our commercial operation (Dadamac Limited). We don't...

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