Mentorship

Together with Volunteers and registered members organized through a central network,the idea can be implemented to success.This does not forget the input of proffessionals through their mentorship activity within the scheme.
This project requires dedicated pioneers with real passion of appreciating the zeal in youth's thinking and their positivity,unlike the old guards disillusioned with life due to limited chances of success.Thus the project creates a platform for successful endeavors in one's lifetime.Hence, a shift in the mentality of youths about life journey.And in achieving this,I believe I may pioneer this noble move.

Afridex is a project of VC4Africa.com and AppfricaLabs. We have joined forces in the effort to bring information about entrepreneurs and their African projects to the web. The team has considerable experience setting up media companies in an African context and builds on an extensive network and foundation of experience and skills suited for this project. I myself have been working in the African media space since 2003 and have been involved in several entrepreneurial projects that have resulted in the establishment of sustainable businesses. Africa Interactive and AfricaNews.com is one of them. Jon Gosier runs a small software team in Kampala that helped develop the prototype and we have the technical skills needed to further launch and maintain this system.

Chris Golden, the Executive Director and co-founder of myImpact.org, has been involved in the national service & civic engagement sectors since September 2008, when he was chosen as a national young leader to attend the ServiceNation Summit. Since then, Chris has worked to develop myImpact.org, representing the organization at conferences nationwide, and working with partner organizations and donors. In 2009, the Washington Times named Chris on a list of "young willing and able" leaders.

The myImpact.org Board of Directors, still in development, include Nick Troiano, a junior at Georgetown University and the co-founder of the organization and Ian Storrar, the Chief Operating Officer of Mobilize.org. An advisor board consisting of representatives from the youth engagement, technology, and national service fields advises the organization.

A partnership network has been established and myImpact.org works closely with other organizations in its work. We feel that our idea is uniquely positioned to fill needs that currently exist in the national and community service community.

Apps will be designed by a team of young developers (aged 16 -22) in Zimbabwe who are interested in learning creative problem solving and program design skills. These app developers will be work with a team of experienced mentors experienced in media production, behaviour change methodologies and creative thinking to design their products. The material for the creative process will be resourced by collecting valuable life stories from migrant communities - parents and elder relatives living in the diaspora. These life stories will then be used to create peer support applications known as ‘Life Lessons’.

As an experienced project manager, accountant and fundraiser, I will be able to use my skills to manage the development of the project and source funding. I will also develop partnerships with representative umbrella agencies that coordinate the work of NGO’s, charities and schools in the country.

A Board of Advisors consisting of senior members of the news, traditional and new media, public relations, advertising, and media technology industries and leaders from related sectors would be appointed to fully develop and implement the idea. I have spent considerable time developing and researching the idea of promoting mentorship via www.GiftedMentors.com and public campaigns, and have acquired a vast storehouse of resources I can utilize. The annual International Mentorship Month would serve as a springboard for www.GiftedMentors.com which would remain active in promoting mentorship and providing mentor-matching services after the Month is over and thus provide continuity until the following year's campaign. I also firmly believe in my idea and am willing to devote the rest of my life to this cause. I have the passion and determination, and legal, advisory, formation, advocacy, and entrepreneurial skills to make it happen.

I will connect with the lady at The Mandela "46664" office. She and I were classmates this past year on a course on Social Entrepreneurship. I manage and run the Refirement Network in South Africa and the main aim of my organisation is to help Baby Boomers understand that they need to REFIRE and not RETIRE. This campaign will help accelerate the message

We are going to help ourselves develop this idea. We are story-tellers for life and have chosen this as our area of work for the rest of our life.
On micro-level, we have built a team of subject-matter experts from the areas of business development, education, banking, insurance, money-markets, retail of books, developmental projects, etc. who support us as advisors, opinion-makers and well-wishers.
We have started approaching Angel Investors for funding.

On demand side, we have already visualized a 12 book series targeted for kindergarten students. We have identified potential publishers and have circulated our publishing proposal to first-choice publisher – awaiting response.

We are the ones to make this happen because we are the ones who need it the most and we realize that there millions more like us.

The project will be managed by Mick Fealty & Paul Evans of Slugger O'Toole. It will also involve Andrew Regan of Poblish.org (a project that extracts and contextualises content from policy-related blogs, forums & blog comments) & David Price of Debategraph (a tool designed to provide visual representations of arguments & policy options).

Mick & Paul have the public profile, the personal connections, & tech project skills to make it happen - both in Northern Ireland, the UK, and thanks to WeMedia, on a more global scale. Andrew shares our vision and has the technical ability to deliver, and David understands the issues around the structuring of argumentation better than almost anyone around.

Slugger O'Toole is perfect for this idea. We believe that - more than any other political blog - it has higher visibility per-head-of-population in the polity it covers. It is non-partisan. It has established norms covering civility & quality of content & it is actually respected by local politicians & journalists.

It has the profile needed to build the necessary partnership. It also operates in a polity where all parties acknowledge the need for political innovation and gamechanging.

I am in touch with the commissioner in charge of the Department of Careers’ guidance in the Ministry of Education and Sports, careers’ guidance teachers in schools and media practitioners in media houses like Uganda Broadcasting Corporation TV, Voice of Africa FM and The Daily Monitor newspaper.
I am the one to make it happen as most people in this Country who work in the media and do Careers’ guidance and counseling have not studied Information Technology in depth. Secondly, those who have studied IT and have the experience to do it are too busy to find time to do something like this. Some are in lecture rooms while others are in Server rooms - if not surfing the internet. I want to bridge the gap.

Ely Bonder is the founder of eMage.ca, one of the first web concepts to promote youth empowerment through New Media and Broadcasting. Ely is a full-time news video editor for Canada's private sector CTV television network.

Ely pioneered youth access to broadcasters by piloting a show conceived by youth for professional TV in the early eighties, and also applied for a satellite channel for and by youth, which morphed to become one of the most successful specialty channels in Canada : YTV .

Co-piloting the NewsRap demo was accomplished with Montreal non-profit producer Les Productions Oracle, which is devoted to video production for and by youth-at-risk.

CTV News Montreal has agreed to collaborate in promoting the successful launch of NewsRap, locally, and across Canada.