How can we find local sustainable ways of funding? Berlin, Germany
• “non-monetary support! – skills – time”
• ”community mobilising”
• ”does sustainable funding exist?”
Are monetary transfers available? Berlin, Germany
How can we scale it? Berlin, Germany
How to sustain what you started and how to scale it up? University of Economics/ Prague, Czech Republic
• Create a pipeline in the community to carry on what you started
• Be a role model
• Create a win-win situation with the community: instead of a teacher-student model, have an exchange model
• creating awareness, encourage others to come to Africa
• learning ‘their’ way of life and trying to live like them
• carrying it forward in your own community
• make the most of the time you have – share experiences with others
• use social networks – blogs FB
• pass it to your children – raise your children to be the kind of person you were
• presentations, workshops, education at university
• don’t just stick to small cities
• go from global to local
How can we create sustained sustainability? Hub/ Zurich, Switzerland
• How to incentivise NGOs to coordinate? – project-based platforms, certification, donor pressure + informed donors, positive competition for funding
• bridging knowledge between NGOs – virtual and physical bridging platforms
• local people’s involvement is key
• finances without cultural knowledge are useless
• live together with people
• Aim = sustainability = local independence
How can we transfer the knowledge between developed and developing countries? Berlin, Germany
• ”non-monetary support! – skills – time”
• ”community mobilising”
• ”does sustainable funding exist?”
How can we leverage technology? Berlin, Germany
• “teachers! engineers! doctors!”
• ”cyberatopian?”
• ”retired experts/ Skype share”
• ”transferring knowledge – mobile? videoconferencing”
• ”leap-frogging to mobiles in bangledash”
• ”dime-cowhigent – aarvark/ quora.4D”
• ”engage silver surfers!”
• ”empowering tech vs. unused status symbol”
• ”internet as a human right”
• ”risk of internet access: child porn graphics, etc.”
• ”you can’t eat the internet”
