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Dadamac has moved - see Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Connect

Submitted by Pamela on 31 July 2015 - 5:48pm

2014 was a time of reflection in Dadamac and now you can see the results. The main thing you'll notice is an end to blogging here at www.dadamac.net and two new websites instead. The new home for updates from Africa. If you're looking for updates about John Dada's work at Fantsuam Foundation, or anything else about Dadamac's UK-Africa connections then go straight to Dadamac Foundation - www.dadamac.org We are extending the UK-Africa work and bringing it all under the umbrella of our registered charity Dadamac Foundation. Since 2009 one of the main features of this "old" Dadamac.net site has been...

Dadamac Holacracy Lite - February 2015 update

Submitted by Pamela on 27 February 2015 - 8:36pm

I'm a fan of Holacracy and want to find a way to implement it in Dadamac as we grow. My introduction came through a Hub Westminster breakfast session, then I went on a one-day training course and loved the approach. Since then I've Kept in contact with some of the people I met at the training day. Been learning more in an informal way. Enthused about it within Dadamac. Investigated the ideas through some online peer-to-peer learning with a fellow enthusiast. Wondered if we might do a simpler version (see Dadamac Holacracy Lite ). But I haven't been in a...

First Thursday Meeting Updates

Submitted by Pamela on 2 February 2015 - 10:38am

The First Thursday Group has now moved to the Kabissa Forum in the category dadamac We are experimenting with the format. One of the problems with the one-hour meetings we used to do was finding a time that suited eveyone's time-zone, especially when the group included people from the USA, instead of just Europe and Africa. The information above is a 2015 update, the information below was how it used to be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First Thursday meetings On the First Thursday of each month I try to be online for an hour. It's a chance for friends and contacts, old and...

Reflections on #dadamac 2015 Jan 10th-16th

Submitted by Pamela on 17 January 2015 - 8:30am

As I woke up today (January 17th) I realised that it was exactly one week since our event "Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015" so I began this blog. Thinking back at all that has happened I recalled that exactly this time last week (nearly 8.30 am) John Dada and I (the "Dada" and "mac" of Dadamac) were on our way to Hub Westminster. I pressed save. Then I went away to think about it.... Preparations and expectations On Friday 9th January. Nikki Fishman, Steve Podmore and I met John Dada to welcome him to London and...

#dadamac connect - 13 Jan 2015

Submitted by Pamela on 13 January 2015 - 11:56pm

A day in my life in Dadamac Connect .... (times to nearest 1/4 hour) 8.15 - Dadamac UK-Nigeria meeting 10.30 - Debrief and planning with Nikki 1.30 - Apologetic email to organiser of Royal Africa Society event (2-4pm) 2.00 - Left home 3.00 - Arrived RAS Event - glad I made it 5.30 Arrived HubW 5.45 HubW DIY kitchen -met (new contact) who told me about Meetup for wordpress users - I need to register 6.15 Andrius Kulikauskas on Skype asking how January 10th went 6.45 Now and again Chris Santano showed me a bit of the video he took...

2015: Happy Connected New Year (and Africa-UK Connections in Practice)

Submitted by Pamela on 4 January 2015 - 11:13pm

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Connected New Year and inviting you to share it with us. Dadamac is leaping into 2015 with an event at Westminster Hub called "Africa-UK Connections in Practice" on January 10th. Afterwards we'll use the the Kabissa forum to act on whatever comes out of the January 10th event. To join us in London book here To join the Kabissa forum - and get a better idea of what the event is all about see - Kabissa: Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015 The forum is open to anyone who's interested. You don't...

From Dadamac UK - to Cisco International - to Fantsuam

Submitted by Frances on 30 December 2014 - 10:22pm

Filo Boko writes from Fantsuam's perspective about a unique collaborative effort It was in April 2013 that Fantsuam's Cisco academy, also known as ZittNet academy, contacted Dadamac UK with an SOS. The academy that has been training students since 2004 faced imminent closure because it could not afford the £4,000 needed to purchase the mandatory new laboratory bundles. Dadamac took up the issue with its networks and was able to contact the Cisco Africa Regional Office to request an expression of its Corporate Social Responsibility to support ZittNet. After a flurry of emails from UK to South Africa to Nigeria,...

Dadamac Connect - its connections and launch

Submitted by Pamela on 6 December 2014 - 4:24pm

Dadamac Connect connects people, organisations and ideas. It was co-founded by Nicola (Nikki) Fishman and me (Pamela McLean) on September 1st 2014. It has the same DNA as our earlier Dadamac work (visible in part through www.dadamac.net ) but Dadamac Connect is more clearly defined. It connects many initiatives Nichola and I have been involved in previously, together and separately. Some are visible at www.dadamac.net some happened elsewhere. I've always described Dadamac.net as a work-space rather than a website, because it reflects something that is too emergent, experimental and "shape shifting" to be a captured in a tidy website. That's...

RSA UK-Africa Network and Dadamac

Submitted by Pamela on 4 December 2014 - 10:57am

On November the new RSA UK-Africa Network was announced in the RSA London Region Newsletter along with an invitation to register for "Africa-UK Connections in Practice - New Approaches for 2015" on Saturday January 10th at Westminster Hub This blog explains the connection between the two. I'm the founder of the RSA UK-Africa Network. My connection with Africa has always been as a communication link. Think of me as a kind of unofficial UK office, and Internet connection, helping some impressive African friends who are doing innovative work in their local communities. I got involved almost by accident (to help...

The Fantsuam-Dadamac ICT journey

Submitted by Frances on 26 November 2014 - 5:58pm

Fantsuam 'discovers' integrated development. When Fantsuam Foundation began to develop its services in 2001 to meet the development priorities of its host communities, it had no idea that the strategy it was deploying had a name: it is now called ‘integrated development’. Visitors to Fantsuam were often surprised at the array of services provided and some funders even suggested that we prune them down and ‘specialise’. To its credit, it was only Dadamac that saw the logic of our strategy and encouraged us to stick with it, rather than pander to the flavour-of-the-month approach of funding agencies. It was gratifying...

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