Governance/ICT

Wireless Ghana - Wireless Ghana is a project of Community-Based Libraries and Information Technology (CBLit), aNGO based in both Ghana and the United States that has developed a pilot wireless network. This was initiated at the Apirede Resource Center (CBLit’s first Community Resource Center) in 2005 in response to the local community’s requests for connectivity to help them break their isolation, move their children and community closer to the 21st century, and be competitive with their urban counterparts. Wireless Ghana is working with OVF to develop a template for developing resource centers employing wireless ICT technologies at the national and continental level.

African Youth ICT4D Network is an pan-African promoting an all inclusive platform that ensures effective African youth input into the African information society agenda. AYIN is united by a vision of a networked generation of young Africans empowering themselves and contributing to the continent’s active participation in the Information Society.

International Free and Open Source Foundation (iFOSSF) - seeks to accelerate the development and usage of FOSS ICT approaches worldwide for sustained economic and social development. The purpose is to apply leadership in support of innovation and creativity in research and development of FOSS solutions for the benefit of the global community. We work with iFOSSF to promote FOSS solutions to NGOs as a complete ecosystem approach to promote collective intelligence.

Development Partnership International is a Nigerian based youth-led NGO who empower youth activists through various skills building workshops. These workshops provide information and training designed to make their local initiatives more meaningful and beneficial to their communities. DPI builds on the multi-sector, multi-disciplinary network of young leaders who are working on various initiatives towards sustainable community development. Through this process they begin to gain respect, recognition and relevance at both the international and national levels.

University of Education Winneba, Ghana is committed to educational development in Ghana and seeing the key role that ICT plays in the process. OVF is working with the ICT center at UEWG to design technology solutions that facilitate rapid capacity building and in turn development for Ghana that address many complex and challenging problems that Ghana faces today.

Kenya AIDS Intervention Prevention Project Group shares with OVF a common theme and guiding philosophy - helping people to help themselves. Each individual and group working with KAIPPG plans and implements their own program of action, evaluating its progress along the way, and making changes as needed. They specialize in counseling, dietary-intervention, healthcare, home-based care and programs to help orphans and other vulnerable children, youth, and women in particular.