Children focused. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

•  “the growing population in africa are an opportunity for our aged society. we should focus on that point; mainly on education. We see a chance in this combination between growing population and education. If there is the goal to educate more children, the possibility of improving the situation in that countries is rising.”

•    ”For this aim we do not need that much money, but people. So it would be great, if we could find passionate people from Europe or America who comes to Africa and teaches the children. BUT we aren’t allowed to forget about the culture and the local people. So we have to integrate both of them. For example we do not know the traditions.”

•    ”This are the first steps to create a local education systems which works in the long-term without foreign help.”

•    ”Children are vulnerable and education can be “brainwashing.” But at the same time one can use alternative education that involves culture, music, etc. Like George/ Ryan.”

•    ”Brain drain. PHYSICAL EXCHANGE. Africans going to China.. the only black person the Chinese person will see! – could be beneficial in another way, even if not in Africa directly.”

•    ”Free food at meetings is hand-out.”

Health.  Yale/ New Haven, CT

•    Health Awareness – translating awareness into action is oftentimes very difficult, and literacy issues also bring this objective into conflict…There is also a conflict between jarring (negative) and assuring (positive) teaching methods”.

Rural Development. Hub/ Zurich, Switzerland

•    What’s the difference between ‘normal’ and rural development?
•    Make rural places attractive to live and work – is investment the answer? promotion of traditions?
•    Empower people – especially women
•    Culture matters – need to be considerate of local cultures
•    ”60% of world population will live in cities”
•    Is information / internet a human right? – what’s the difference in labelling it a human right? would it drive demand?
•    ”either we give them Macs or we have to teach them”
•    ”care to be there as a person”
•    role of infrastructure (internet, cell phones, roads) – who builds / works it out? – toll roads?

Social business and entrepreneurship. University of Economics/ Prague, Czech Republic

•    microfinance – home business – microbusiness
•    What shall we sell here? Who decides what we sell?
•    Starting business with profit – better than giving out things, provides jobs, encouraging people to start their own
•    Multinational companies – coca cola is everywhere (rainforest, himalayas)
•    get NGOs to confront Coco-Cola – could be influential
•    NGOs need more marketing – make the message popular, people will want the product

Education is the key to Aid in Africa. -adults & Children education. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

•    Education’s purpose: Providing a job and opening your mind, learning how to use your resources
•    Learn to connect different events.
•    You can’t fish when you’re hungry.
•    Truth and education. Internet is secondary to basic knowledge. Open window on all societies. Not a good ambition to want what Europeans have to show.
•    Rather than computer (software, electricity) buy footballs, books, pens, and bicycles.
•    Need to teach people values. Which values? People can create their own value – Gb limits.
•    Costs less to provide computer access than to buy lots of books.
•    People should have centres rather than individual usage. Computer library.
•    Education network, as a new NGO. Maybe like the through the UNO. Developed Countries financially contributing that organization.
Main Idea, connecting the motivation of the small NGO.
•    Improve levels of basic knowledge – reading, writing, maths
•    Important to use the links that were created by Colonialism for good. Keep the link.
•    Portuguese think of Angola as a free land! Bad side as they are raised up and live with different standards.
Engagement. Brown/ Providence, Rhode Island
•    “The best way to judge an organization is by looking at their leadership and the transparency they have”.
•    ”The biggest challenge in these countries is for the government to be stabilized and for them to care about the people”.
•    “Education is engagement. To be engaged is to mean you care. And when you care you perform better”.
•    Where are the old kids?”
•    “They need to learn skills to create jobs”.
•    “Job creation: the young entrepreneurs of Africa”
•    “Learning is looking; we can learn from around us”

Collaboration. Yale/ New Haven, CT

•    Collaboration: there is no collaboration at the moment, why not? Either this has systematic reasons or individual based reasons. If it is individual based reason we need to replace the CEOs of NGOs”.
•    ”Old logic: the guy who founded the NGO will run it”.
•    “New (or) logic: we educate specialized NGO-management-experts who maybe aren’t the best to start a new project but knows best how to develop an existing one.”
Breaking the cycle. GWU/ Washington D.C
-    Engage the kids – don’t go the traditional route / not just sit in the classroom.
-    Ave the people who keep really doing the right thing?
-    Having legitimate reasons to help and to be an example.
-    Giving the kids alternatives and other options.
Internet as aid. (Kosta) Cambridge, Massachusetts
•    “I think Internet is very important for developing countries.”
•    Hall in the wall computer:
•    “Can people utilize internet without being educated how to use it?”
•    =porn chat =learn english
•     “For all the talk of people ‘helping others help themselves’ – I’ve never seen an NGO actually ‘complete their mission’ and leave; leaving a sustainable solution behind.”
•    “Aid is the propagation of a problem, not the solution to a problem.”
•    Internet = social movements = self-educate
•    “How much tech needs to be re-invented again?”
•    Releases the mind.

Once we know and understand how social structures work, then we can ACT. Bucerius Law School Hamburg, Germany

•    What young people / students can do from their place to help those NGOs with socializing and without money and being there
•    Get inspiration
•    Is it effective to only hand out money?
•    Use Multiplicators, support them to use their system, help them to do their work more effective
•    Are the NGO’s working together?
•    Real-Life effect… recollection, live-reporting
•    Use companies and the user to earn money
•    The real question: WHAT IS developing aid?
⁃    What it isn’t….
⁃    send money, send clothes, build schools
⁃    What is it……
⁃    screening and analyzing existing social structures
⁃    once key roles are known systematically sponsor and mimic their doings in the social demeanor
⁃    its only effective if you use and improve existing social structures”
•    Aid from within?! “It can come from without”
•    Once we know and understand how social structures work, then we can ACT.
•    We must understand their key role?
•    Key role is a nod that connects e.i. social development in a mayor way to over proportional amount
•    For anyone; find your purpose. find your passion.
•    By finding your key role you maximize you effectiveness