Give voice and power to the people

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Give voice and power to the people

• Enabling human connection and healing through
  storytelling the power of expression can
  transform our world

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Lets visualize this together!
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Field Report In Country
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Field Agent Connecting to the Community
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Technology Serving the Human Community
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Weaving A Human Tapestry of Uplift
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The Engine for UpliftoneVillage Initiative
Holistic ICT Development
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oneVoice Storysharing Environment
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Steps to Community Revitalization
oneVillage Initiative - Based on open source
platform development - Creates relationships
with all players and leadership - Provides
templates for sustainable development - A
holistic approach to addressing world-urgent
issues
Silicon Valley Community - Telecommunications,
hardware and software platforms to bring a modern
communications infrastructure to urban,
semi-urban and rural areas.
Revitalization of rural economy -Creates jobs in
rural village -Reduces urban pressure from
impoverished rural migration
GRINs role for the rebirth of Mother Africa is
to gather her best resources, which are her
people. By being that connection, we have a duty
to reach all the people. And, to have something
to show to all the people! Olumdie Obidiran,
Nigerian Delegate to Africa Youth Parliament,
March 2003.
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Reversing Brain Drain from the Countryside
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Rural Village
Regional Center -GDLN node -University -Knowledge
bases
Relay Village
Regional Center -GDLN node -University -Knowledge
bases
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How you can make a difference!

• Participate in human capacity building.
• Create online IT training courses for the
  CatchITYoung program in collaboration with local
  community members.
• Share knowledge.
• Build ICT tools to enable people to learn and
  communicate.
• Become an IT training / entrepreneurial mentor to
  African Youth. In return, Africans could be
  cultural and spiritual mentors to the Western
  world.
• Build web-enabled development tools to support
  Initiatives and Businesses in the oneVillage
  model, to revitalize local and global economy.
• Field Agents bring capacity building tools to the
  village. They learn about village life patterns
  and behavior models, to help design effective
  ICT tools that enable knowledge sharing and
  communication.

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What can we do with this model?

• Provide a platform that gives voice and power to
  the people
• Unite the community around care for AIDS orphans
• Create sustainable rural economies
• Realize the eco-village dream
• Empower women and youth with jobs and education
• Improve quality of life
• Embrace cultural heritage and indigenous
  knowledge
• Bridge understanding among cultures for peace

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Lets build this Eco-village together!
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Back to the Root

• Sankofa
• Symbolizes respect for heritage, history and
  wisdom of the elders, and a search for the
  positive aspects of the forgotten, ignored and
  concealed past.

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Rural Farmers Cooperative Jukwa, GhanaStory
Line

• The coop is a way that OVF Ghana can promote
  sustainable agricultural practices to help local
  farmers.
• OVF Ghana needed 10 collateral to complete a
  transaction with the Ghanaian government to
  enable the acquisition of a tractor for the
  cooperative.
• The timely intervention of OVF-USA through a
  generous cash donation from Helen Depietro--the
  grandmother of Jeff Buderer--made it possible to
  secure the required deposit.
• Money was needed in an account to prove that the
  recipient had the resources to manage the
  equipment and was established as working entity.
• The District Directorate of Cooperative and
  Agriculture, approved the delivery of a "Palm Oil
  and Palm Kennel Oil Processing Plant" to the
  cooperative.
• The Option of a multipurpose modern oil mill was
  carefully chosen, as there are none in the local
  area and for this reason it has the potential to
  generate substantial income for the cooperative.
• The farmers were very grateful for the moral and
  financial support they received from the
  oneVillage Foundation.

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Rural Farmers Cooperative Jukwa, GhanaProject
Outline

• Project Name Jukwa Farmers Coop
• Location Jukwa, Ghana
• Vision A thriving market in Africa to produce
  healthy food sustainably.
• Project Design and Rationale Work with rural and
  semi-urban communities in identifying
  economically viable organic farming operations.
  We are identifying global organic farming network
  and technology to build the model for
  self-sustaining community living. By sustaining
  the small communities, many of them are in the
  rural areas in the developing countries,
  migration from the rural area to urban area would
  be corrected which will contribute into the
  balance growth of the human evolution.
• Goals
• 1. Provide a livelihood for local farmers using
  the land sustainably while providing healthy
  food.
• 2. Expand to other communities in the oneVillage
  Foundation network, identifying where ecological
  devastation is occurring and organizing
  communities to bring and end to those practices
  and restore the land - restorative economics.
• 3. Teach villagers and farmers how to market
  traditionally-produced crops as organic, and how
  to do the record keeping necessary for organic
  certification.
• Target Groups African Farmers
• Needs Modern equipment for farming

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CatchITYoung Promoting Computer Skills for the
Youth in Ghana

• Project name CatchITYoung
• Location Schools throughout Ghana
• Vision To educate the youth about ICT and
  introduce them to the skills need to prosper in
  the information economy.
• Project Design and Rationale Information
  Technology Clubs in Ghanaian primary and
  secondary schools complement conventional
  education curriculum and teach students how to
  use computers and the internet, increasing
  student performance.
• CatchITYoung was developed jointly by oneVillage
  Foundation-Ghana and the International Young
  Professionals Foundation (IYPF)-Ghana, both
  working under a unified umbrella, the African
  Youth Initiative (AYI). AYI is a joint youth
  effort to address the numerous problems of Africa
  through the use of Information and Communication
  Technology.
• Goals
• 1. Improve awareness of ICT among students and
  teachers
• 2. Assist in Ghana's readiness for its full
  participation in the global knowledge economy.
• Target Groups Primary and secondary students
• Needs Computers and money to fund teachers and
  trainers to expand program to other schools.

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Sports People that Care
Project Name Sports People that Care Location
Ghana Vision The effective use of sports to win
the fight against AIDS. Project Design and
Rationale We will use the popularity of football
as a way to promote health and teamwork.
Specifically the program will be designed to
raise awareness about AIDS. Ticket receipts will
be used to treat and care for people infected
with AIDS as well as towards prevention
efforts. Goals 1. These events will be used to
address social issues relating to AIDS. 2. Raise
money for AIDS treatment and education. Targeted
Groups General public to promote AIDS awareness
and those directly affected by AIDS
Pandemic Needs funding
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Community Knowledge Delivery System

• Project Name Community Knowledge Development
  System
• Vision Field Agents linked up through a global
  ICT network that effectively mobilizes the world
  community to address world urgent issues.
• Location Pilot projects to located in
  unspecified communities throughout Africa.
• Project Design and Rationale A central part of
  the oneVillage Initiative will be the development
  of a mobile ICT network, linked real time,
  electronically in the field. We propose an
  experiment to test out our hypothesis
• that giving people in the field real time
  connections will leading to a rapid increase in
  innovation and economic development.
• ICT field agent teams will function as
  collectors, preliminary processors and retrievers
  of information from knowledge bases as well as
  human networks.
• Goals
• 1. Integrate local development projects with ICT
• 2. Provide practical ICT solutions for
  underserved communities.
• Target Groups People in underserved communities.
• Needs Funding for Knowledge design, organization
  and implementation through field agent teams on
  the ground.

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e-recycling

• Project Name e-recycling program
• Location Dominican Republic other locations TBD
• Vision To develop computer e-waste solutions
  that close the loop on computer waste and empower
  local communities in the process.
• Project Design and Rationale We propose an
  integrated program working with the World Bank,
  AcrossWorld communications and others to develop
  a worldwide hub in the Dominican republic that
  uses an already existing industrial park to
  manage, sort and remanufacture IT e-waste from
  developed nations for delivery to emerging
  markets.
• Goals
• 1. Close the loop on e-waste
• 2. Develop markets for the recycling and resale
  of computer componentry in emerging markets

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Unity Center Ecovillages

• Project Name Unity Center
• Vision/theme Create a new approach to
  development that empowers local people through a
  bottom up economy.
• Locations Mbita Kenya and Osobo, State Nigeria.
• Project Design and Rationale Unity Centers will
  serve as prototypes for integrated approaches to
  sustainable development rapidly replicating
  sustainable solutions throughout the world. This
  project will
• integrate the various oneVillage Initiatives in
  the form of a tech incubation and local service
  center that will also provide ecoliving solutions
  to surrounding regions.
• Provide a base for Field agents and other support
  staff who will develop technologies suitable for
  regional implementation.
• Goals
• 1. demonstrate the economic viability of
  sustainable development
• 2. expand economic opportunity for local
  communities
• 3. help address urgent infrastructure needs
  through Initiative programs like CatchITYoung and
  GEI.
• Target Groups People in underserved communities