Blog item by Akvo’s Kathelyne van den Berg: On the 21 and 22 february I gave a Workshop for the Connect4Change (C4C) Consortium education sector partners in the Copperbelt, Kitwe, Zambia. The workshop was organised together with my Connect4Change colleagues Theresa Stanton (IICD) and Tjeerd de Boer (Edukans). The trip from Lusaka to the Copperbelt [...]
News item by TTC: Here you can watch a video interview with Ntilila Chaila and Sam Phiri of SMSize the technical partner of Text to Change in Zambia. SMSize helps Text to Change applying for a short code and contracts with the telecom operators.
Watch here a video of our Ugandan C4C partner Health Child on “Using mobile phones to improve community knowledge on maternal and child health“.
News item by Akvo: Here are Akvo’s six top tips on how to compose a great update that keeps people informed and interested about what’s going on with your project. 1. Tell the project’s story – what’s happening now? 2. Include a picture and/or a video – an update with an image is so much [...]
Blog by Kathelyne van den Berg, Akvo: The thing that really sticked from our Really Simple Video training during the C4C workshop was that a simple video is less than 3 minutes or as Mark Charmer calls it in his Spanish “Menos de Tres Menutos”. All the partners were joking about this but this also [...]
John Stephen Agbenyo (@agbedela on Twitter), executive director of Connect4Change Ghana partner SavSign, has been making great use of Akvo RSR to keep people up to date on progress. He’s posted some lovely updates, including a couple about an inter-school ICT quiz, complete with a video clip of the teams competing. He’s also put a [...]
Manfred is health information systems technical advisor for this large faith-based NGO. CHAG (www.chagghana.org) is involved in implementing a computerised healthcare records system and an e-learning programme for healthcare professionalls as part of the Connect4Change programme. Manfred is documenting lessons learned in the project’s pilot stage that will inform its final roll out. Interview recorded [...]
Blog by Akvo’s Mark Charmer: At Akvo we’re not professional video people. But we think video is really important to our work and that of our partners. We use it to bring to life the people we meet and the interactions we have. We think it makes everything we do feel more real. We’ve been [...]
