Dropbox es un servicio gratuito que permite a los usuarios almacenar y sincronizar archivos entre diferentes dispositivos. Los archivos guardados en la carpeta de Dropbox de un dispositivo se sincronizan automáticamente con la carpeta Dropbox en otros equipos y en la nube, lo que permite a los usuarios acceder y editar los mismos archivos desde cualquier lugar.
Este documento ofrece consejos para mejorar las habilidades de argumentación. En primer lugar, explica el problema y formula una propuesta específica para abordarlo. Luego, desarrolla el argumento principal y examina posibles objeciones y alternativas a la propuesta.
egk14 - Input: WS Tools for Knowledge Applicationicebauhaus
This document discusses information and communication technologies for agriculture (ICT4Ag) and related topics. It provides an overview of common ICT4Ag technologies, application areas, target user groups, and major global players. It also presents case studies comparing the ICT4Ag landscape and key factors in Senegal, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Germany. The document outlines some main conclusions, including challenges in ensuring ICT4Ag solutions are based on user needs and sustainable long-term. It proposes potential topics for discussion and a practical group exercise to explore challenges and ideate solutions with and without ICT components.
Tools of knowledge application workshop decriptionicebauhaus
The two-hour workshop was attended by 15 participants from backgrounds related to agriculture, development, and IT. The workshop aimed to introduce user-centered design methodology and discuss challenges in Ethiopian agriculture and potential solutions. Participants brainstormed challenges, which were grouped into categories. They then split into two groups to discuss a challenge in more depth and propose solutions with or without ICT. The proposed solutions included a mobile knowledge platform for farmers, a peer-learning network for new crops, and an early warning system for disasters. The main result was identifying the participants as a valuable resource for new projects.
Dropbox es un servicio gratuito que permite a los usuarios almacenar y sincronizar archivos entre diferentes dispositivos. Los archivos guardados en la carpeta de Dropbox de un dispositivo se sincronizan automáticamente con la carpeta Dropbox en otros equipos y en la nube, lo que permite a los usuarios acceder y editar los mismos archivos desde cualquier lugar.
Este documento ofrece consejos para mejorar las habilidades de argumentación. En primer lugar, explica el problema y formula una propuesta específica para abordarlo. Luego, desarrolla el argumento principal y examina posibles objeciones y alternativas a la propuesta.
egk14 - Input: WS Tools for Knowledge Applicationicebauhaus
This document discusses information and communication technologies for agriculture (ICT4Ag) and related topics. It provides an overview of common ICT4Ag technologies, application areas, target user groups, and major global players. It also presents case studies comparing the ICT4Ag landscape and key factors in Senegal, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Germany. The document outlines some main conclusions, including challenges in ensuring ICT4Ag solutions are based on user needs and sustainable long-term. It proposes potential topics for discussion and a practical group exercise to explore challenges and ideate solutions with and without ICT components.
Tools of knowledge application workshop decriptionicebauhaus
The two-hour workshop was attended by 15 participants from backgrounds related to agriculture, development, and IT. The workshop aimed to introduce user-centered design methodology and discuss challenges in Ethiopian agriculture and potential solutions. Participants brainstormed challenges, which were grouped into categories. They then split into two groups to discuss a challenge in more depth and propose solutions with or without ICT. The proposed solutions included a mobile knowledge platform for farmers, a peer-learning network for new crops, and an early warning system for disasters. The main result was identifying the participants as a valuable resource for new projects.
egk13 - African Business Women connected - Nigist Haile, ABWicebauhaus
The document summarizes the African Business Women (ABW) Connected initiative, which aims to enhance the economic performance of women-led businesses in Africa. The multi-year program will host the first pan-African Summit and Trade Expo in Ethiopia in 2015, bringing together up to 500 leading African businesswomen and students to network, attend skills workshops, and facilitate trade linkages. The goal is to connect female entrepreneurs in key export sectors like crafts/textiles, agribusiness for cosmetics, and tourism to international buyers and each other to help grow their businesses and empower more women across the continent.
egk - #OS SOUTH SUDAN Open Systems Strategies for Peace, Innovation and Devel...icebauhaus
1. The document discusses using open systems strategies and models to promote peace, innovation, and development in South Sudan. It outlines recommendations for enabling access to technology, developing open systems criteria, recognizing open systems as sustainability priorities, supporting education and incubators, and fostering open knowledge commons.
2. Specific open systems initiatives proposed for South Sudan include #OSJUBA for the capital Juba, #OSWARRAP for the state of Warrap, #OSBACK for an open source server backbone, and projects involving open urbanism, a virtual academy, and an open innovation lab.
3. The document argues that open systems can generate knowledge and empower citizens, provide access to education and economic opportunities, foster
egk13 - Hubs as anchor points for innovation in Africa - Claude Migisha, KLab...icebauhaus
This document discusses the role of innovation hubs in Africa. It notes that mobile broadband penetration in Africa has increased from 2% in 2010 to 11% in 2013. Innovation hubs in Africa function as anchor points for innovation by providing multidisciplinary collaboration, mentors and role models, and infrastructure to support entrepreneurs and startups. Examples of hubs focus on innovation, pre-incubation, incubation, and acceleration. Hubs can take the form of coworking spaces, incubators, or be university-affiliated. Successful hubs have produced solutions to address African issues. Diaspora partnerships can provide hubs access to global markets, financing, and mentorship.
The document outlines the business model challenges and opportunities for DEMO AFRICA. Key challenges include high internet costs, low user penetration, lack of international payment options, and limited platforms to showcase products. Opportunities include lower startup costs, political and economic stability improving, growing domestic users, and fixes to transportation issues. The lack of private equity, venture capital, and seed funding is also listed as a challenge.
egk13 - Intra Africa Trade - Abebe Abebayehuicebauhaus
This document discusses challenges and recommendations regarding intra-African trade. It notes that intra-African trade is currently very low at 12%, compared to over 50% for other regions, due to barriers like lack of infrastructure, complex trade regulations, and low productive capacity. Increasing intra-African trade could boost investment, reduce vulnerability, and be a major opportunity for growth. Key recommendations include improving political cooperation, investing in infrastructure like ports and roads, streamlining customs procedures, facilitating information sharing on business opportunities, and engaging the African diaspora.
The document discusses harnessing innovation for wider educational integration in Africa. It argues that the African Diaspora possess wealth of knowledge and innovation needed to advance the continent. However, only 5% of young Africans currently attend college, and they are not being equipped with innovation in education. The document proposes engaging the Diaspora and applying the spirit of innovation in Africa's educational system by utilizing innovative technologies to enhance learning and communicate across borders on the continent.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Erick Tambo on brain circulation schemes and including diaspora in higher education. It discusses the United Nations University's (UNU) mandate to support sustainable development and their various programs and campus locations worldwide. It then focuses on UNU's Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn and their efforts in eLearning and engaging diaspora, including potential models for brain circulation schemes in teaching and research.
The Union of African Chambers (PACCI) is the main business advocacy organization in Africa, representing 36 national chambers. It was established in 2009 to strengthen Africa's economic competitiveness by providing a continental voice for business. PACCI focuses on continental issues, hosting conferences on topics like trade, agriculture, and investment forums between Africa and other regions. Its vision is to be the recognized voice of African business and a valuable resource for its members.
This document discusses innovation and the migration of ideas. It defines innovation as the implementation of creative ideas to generate something new and valuable through reduced costs or increased income. It outlines the process of innovation as ideation, combining and evaluating ideas, prototyping, and implementing the most promising ideas. It acknowledges challenges to innovation like education, financial risks, and more. It also states that migration contributes to innovation and provides examples of icehubs and AfriLabs, innovation spaces in Africa. Finally, it lists potential impacts of innovation such as improved lives, job creation, partnerships, and environmental benefits.
egk13 - Pan African University - Karola Hahnicebauhaus
The document discusses the Pan African University (PAU) and the PAU Institute of Water and Energy Sciences, including Climate Change (PAUWES). It summarizes that PAU is a flagship project of the African Union and Germany aimed at developing higher education and applied research across Africa. Specifically, PAUWES is located in Algeria and led by Germany, with the goal of teaching and research related to water, energy, and climate change. It outlines Germany's role through GIZ in providing technical and financial support to establish PAUWES according to international standards.
Egk 2012 sarah yussuf & florian manderscheid, iceaddisicebauhaus
This document discusses creating innovation spaces that bring together startups, education, technology transfer, and community support through events, networking, collaboration, workshops and projects to foster innovation.
The document discusses the link between migration and innovation from a development perspective. It defines innovation as new solutions introduced into a market or company. Important factors that foster innovation include exchange, integration into international networks, and mobility of skilled people. Migrants can contribute to innovation through investment channels like remittances and joint ventures, as well as through knowledge and network transfers. The influencing factors include conditions in both the country of origin, like education quality, and country of destination, such as immigration policy and discrimination levels. Examples of programs that promote investment and return of skilled diaspora are discussed from Honduras, Armenia, and Serbia.
This document outlines a planned research cooperation between Mewael Kiros of ASSEFA and the Technische Universität München on conservation agriculture and cover crops. The cooperation aims to optimize the use of subsidiary crop applications in rotations to make conservation agriculture more effective. Key aspects of conservation agriculture discussed are disturbing the soil as little as possible, keeping the soil covered as much as possible, and mixing and rotating crops. The expected impacts include reduced greenhouse gas emissions, increased biodiversity, lower production costs, and social impacts. The cooperation also involves introducing conservation agriculture and cover crops in northern Ethiopia through a project called CoNEt.
This document discusses how Ethiopia has experienced significant brain drain over the past few decades but is now working to turn that into brain gain by leveraging its diaspora experts. It notes that Ethiopia lost 75% of its skilled workforce between 1980-1991 and now has over 300,000 professionals residing outside of Africa. To address shortages of academics and challenges in higher education from increasing student numbers, Ethiopia is using technology like video conferencing and establishing diaspora organizations to facilitate remote supervision, mentoring, knowledge transfer and short visits by experts abroad. This allows diaspora members to contribute without permanent return and helps turn migration from a brain drain into a brain gain for Ethiopia's development.
This document discusses how migration can catalyze innovation. It provides examples of how migrating animals, cultures, and people throughout history have led to new ideas and changes in perception. Migration triggers five key innovation skills: association, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. The document advocates being willing to think outside the box in order to escape obvious patterns of thought.
1) The document discusses integrating climate smartness into sustainable land management in Ethiopia through the EU/MOA/GIZ Project of the Global Climate Change Alliance.
2) Effects of climate change like droughts and floods can accelerate land degradation, lower crop and livestock productivity, and reduce food and income.
3) The project aims to take a threefold approach of mitigation, adaptation, and livelihoods to manage climate risks through practices like carbon sequestration, behavioral changes, and ensuring food security and income.
The document discusses using information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality of education in Africa. It notes that current education focuses too much on theory and memorization without real-life application and technology. This has led to high youth unemployment. The proposal is to use ICT like smartphones and mobile networks to provide more engaging education focusing on creativity, collaboration, and subjects like math, English, and entrepreneurship. It would use incentives like games and student ambassadors for scalability. Partnerships with governments, institutions, NGOs and companies could help achieve this vision of filling Africa's digital gap through improved technology-enabled education.
GCS was established in 1995 and has since grown to enable both financial and non-financial transactions through various platforms and services. Their vision is to make transactions simple, affordable and accessible to all. Over the past 17 years they have engaged experts and gained experience working in countries like South Africa, Kenya and India. As of January 2013, GCS has 140 employees, 70 professionals, and 9 expatriates working towards their goal of 390 employees. Their focus is on building platforms like a single window service platform, mobile financial services platform, and mobile value added services to provide products like savings, payments, remittances, bill payments, and more through various channels.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
egk13 - African Business Women connected - Nigist Haile, ABWicebauhaus
The document summarizes the African Business Women (ABW) Connected initiative, which aims to enhance the economic performance of women-led businesses in Africa. The multi-year program will host the first pan-African Summit and Trade Expo in Ethiopia in 2015, bringing together up to 500 leading African businesswomen and students to network, attend skills workshops, and facilitate trade linkages. The goal is to connect female entrepreneurs in key export sectors like crafts/textiles, agribusiness for cosmetics, and tourism to international buyers and each other to help grow their businesses and empower more women across the continent.
egk - #OS SOUTH SUDAN Open Systems Strategies for Peace, Innovation and Devel...icebauhaus
1. The document discusses using open systems strategies and models to promote peace, innovation, and development in South Sudan. It outlines recommendations for enabling access to technology, developing open systems criteria, recognizing open systems as sustainability priorities, supporting education and incubators, and fostering open knowledge commons.
2. Specific open systems initiatives proposed for South Sudan include #OSJUBA for the capital Juba, #OSWARRAP for the state of Warrap, #OSBACK for an open source server backbone, and projects involving open urbanism, a virtual academy, and an open innovation lab.
3. The document argues that open systems can generate knowledge and empower citizens, provide access to education and economic opportunities, foster
egk13 - Hubs as anchor points for innovation in Africa - Claude Migisha, KLab...icebauhaus
This document discusses the role of innovation hubs in Africa. It notes that mobile broadband penetration in Africa has increased from 2% in 2010 to 11% in 2013. Innovation hubs in Africa function as anchor points for innovation by providing multidisciplinary collaboration, mentors and role models, and infrastructure to support entrepreneurs and startups. Examples of hubs focus on innovation, pre-incubation, incubation, and acceleration. Hubs can take the form of coworking spaces, incubators, or be university-affiliated. Successful hubs have produced solutions to address African issues. Diaspora partnerships can provide hubs access to global markets, financing, and mentorship.
The document outlines the business model challenges and opportunities for DEMO AFRICA. Key challenges include high internet costs, low user penetration, lack of international payment options, and limited platforms to showcase products. Opportunities include lower startup costs, political and economic stability improving, growing domestic users, and fixes to transportation issues. The lack of private equity, venture capital, and seed funding is also listed as a challenge.
egk13 - Intra Africa Trade - Abebe Abebayehuicebauhaus
This document discusses challenges and recommendations regarding intra-African trade. It notes that intra-African trade is currently very low at 12%, compared to over 50% for other regions, due to barriers like lack of infrastructure, complex trade regulations, and low productive capacity. Increasing intra-African trade could boost investment, reduce vulnerability, and be a major opportunity for growth. Key recommendations include improving political cooperation, investing in infrastructure like ports and roads, streamlining customs procedures, facilitating information sharing on business opportunities, and engaging the African diaspora.
The document discusses harnessing innovation for wider educational integration in Africa. It argues that the African Diaspora possess wealth of knowledge and innovation needed to advance the continent. However, only 5% of young Africans currently attend college, and they are not being equipped with innovation in education. The document proposes engaging the Diaspora and applying the spirit of innovation in Africa's educational system by utilizing innovative technologies to enhance learning and communicate across borders on the continent.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Erick Tambo on brain circulation schemes and including diaspora in higher education. It discusses the United Nations University's (UNU) mandate to support sustainable development and their various programs and campus locations worldwide. It then focuses on UNU's Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn and their efforts in eLearning and engaging diaspora, including potential models for brain circulation schemes in teaching and research.
The Union of African Chambers (PACCI) is the main business advocacy organization in Africa, representing 36 national chambers. It was established in 2009 to strengthen Africa's economic competitiveness by providing a continental voice for business. PACCI focuses on continental issues, hosting conferences on topics like trade, agriculture, and investment forums between Africa and other regions. Its vision is to be the recognized voice of African business and a valuable resource for its members.
This document discusses innovation and the migration of ideas. It defines innovation as the implementation of creative ideas to generate something new and valuable through reduced costs or increased income. It outlines the process of innovation as ideation, combining and evaluating ideas, prototyping, and implementing the most promising ideas. It acknowledges challenges to innovation like education, financial risks, and more. It also states that migration contributes to innovation and provides examples of icehubs and AfriLabs, innovation spaces in Africa. Finally, it lists potential impacts of innovation such as improved lives, job creation, partnerships, and environmental benefits.
egk13 - Pan African University - Karola Hahnicebauhaus
The document discusses the Pan African University (PAU) and the PAU Institute of Water and Energy Sciences, including Climate Change (PAUWES). It summarizes that PAU is a flagship project of the African Union and Germany aimed at developing higher education and applied research across Africa. Specifically, PAUWES is located in Algeria and led by Germany, with the goal of teaching and research related to water, energy, and climate change. It outlines Germany's role through GIZ in providing technical and financial support to establish PAUWES according to international standards.
Egk 2012 sarah yussuf & florian manderscheid, iceaddisicebauhaus
This document discusses creating innovation spaces that bring together startups, education, technology transfer, and community support through events, networking, collaboration, workshops and projects to foster innovation.
The document discusses the link between migration and innovation from a development perspective. It defines innovation as new solutions introduced into a market or company. Important factors that foster innovation include exchange, integration into international networks, and mobility of skilled people. Migrants can contribute to innovation through investment channels like remittances and joint ventures, as well as through knowledge and network transfers. The influencing factors include conditions in both the country of origin, like education quality, and country of destination, such as immigration policy and discrimination levels. Examples of programs that promote investment and return of skilled diaspora are discussed from Honduras, Armenia, and Serbia.
This document outlines a planned research cooperation between Mewael Kiros of ASSEFA and the Technische Universität München on conservation agriculture and cover crops. The cooperation aims to optimize the use of subsidiary crop applications in rotations to make conservation agriculture more effective. Key aspects of conservation agriculture discussed are disturbing the soil as little as possible, keeping the soil covered as much as possible, and mixing and rotating crops. The expected impacts include reduced greenhouse gas emissions, increased biodiversity, lower production costs, and social impacts. The cooperation also involves introducing conservation agriculture and cover crops in northern Ethiopia through a project called CoNEt.
This document discusses how Ethiopia has experienced significant brain drain over the past few decades but is now working to turn that into brain gain by leveraging its diaspora experts. It notes that Ethiopia lost 75% of its skilled workforce between 1980-1991 and now has over 300,000 professionals residing outside of Africa. To address shortages of academics and challenges in higher education from increasing student numbers, Ethiopia is using technology like video conferencing and establishing diaspora organizations to facilitate remote supervision, mentoring, knowledge transfer and short visits by experts abroad. This allows diaspora members to contribute without permanent return and helps turn migration from a brain drain into a brain gain for Ethiopia's development.
This document discusses how migration can catalyze innovation. It provides examples of how migrating animals, cultures, and people throughout history have led to new ideas and changes in perception. Migration triggers five key innovation skills: association, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. The document advocates being willing to think outside the box in order to escape obvious patterns of thought.
1) The document discusses integrating climate smartness into sustainable land management in Ethiopia through the EU/MOA/GIZ Project of the Global Climate Change Alliance.
2) Effects of climate change like droughts and floods can accelerate land degradation, lower crop and livestock productivity, and reduce food and income.
3) The project aims to take a threefold approach of mitigation, adaptation, and livelihoods to manage climate risks through practices like carbon sequestration, behavioral changes, and ensuring food security and income.
The document discusses using information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality of education in Africa. It notes that current education focuses too much on theory and memorization without real-life application and technology. This has led to high youth unemployment. The proposal is to use ICT like smartphones and mobile networks to provide more engaging education focusing on creativity, collaboration, and subjects like math, English, and entrepreneurship. It would use incentives like games and student ambassadors for scalability. Partnerships with governments, institutions, NGOs and companies could help achieve this vision of filling Africa's digital gap through improved technology-enabled education.
GCS was established in 1995 and has since grown to enable both financial and non-financial transactions through various platforms and services. Their vision is to make transactions simple, affordable and accessible to all. Over the past 17 years they have engaged experts and gained experience working in countries like South Africa, Kenya and India. As of January 2013, GCS has 140 employees, 70 professionals, and 9 expatriates working towards their goal of 390 employees. Their focus is on building platforms like a single window service platform, mobile financial services platform, and mobile value added services to provide products like savings, payments, remittances, bill payments, and more through various channels.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.