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oneVillage Initiative

OVI is a comprehensive, community-based approach still in the development stages. It aims to promote the rapid replication of ecologically and socially sustainable systems around the world. The goal is to maximize the potential of physical and virtual communities to do good for themselves and the larger world.

Doing Good and Doing Well: A Social Enterprise Market Driven Approach

By doing good, we mean to address the deepest and most needed social services hidden within our communities, being the needs of the children healthcare to the human rights of a migration worker. We believe that addressing the social needs is be the fundamental for a healthier society. Social benefit is the indication of a strength and well-being of a society and a nation. To strengthen society’s and communities’ ability to manage our social welfare is the sure sign of an improved society. We start with addressing the social issues around us to form the oneVillage Foundation. From the practices, we strive to create a seamless connection with the activities from the businesses design who also adopt the values of doing good and doing well. Through the practices and transformation, we believe, over time, we will create a just society collectively through the intention of altruism as the ultimate sustainability for humanity to evolve positively.

Holistic ICT for EcoLiving

A key focus of OVI is the use of ICT towards the integration of computer technologies as well as social human networking solutions/systems. As information science and technology continues rapidly to develop and expand in complexity, we have to adapt to keep these changes rooted in the needs of the community.

To do this on a practical level, OVF works with local communities to enable not only their survival but the promoting a more prosperous and self-sufficient way of living. A key consideration is managing Internet Access to ensure it is useful and effective. Under this approach, current ICT for Development (ICT4D) approaches are combined with sustainable development strategies to consider more fully, both the social and ecological impacts of the use of computers and to ensure that the overall benefit to humanity is a net positive.

What can we Learn from Africa: The Importance of Community Family and Culture

The OVI approach is based on the understanding that we need various kinds of experts to assist the community in addressing it specialized needs. An important value of African culture such as the Yoruba for example is Asuwada. Their cultural values are much more inclined to link economic profit with a devotion to the overall promotion in the community quality of life. So thus “the development” is not only caring about the economic growth, but rather finding the kind of economic development options that make the most sense considering the assets of the community and its needs. The overall quality of life in a community includes education, the medical service, the culture, the economy, the environment, the government and so on each kind of community faces different challenge in those areas.

Through these experiences and experiments, that replicate that success to other regions, through the development of a global strategy for building sustainable human networks, habitats and societies in mutually supportive, win-win networks.