The Networking for Success Project

A W.TEC project, teaching Nigerian women to use Web 2.0 tools and other ICTs effectively to develop and advance their work.

July participants with guest speakers

Published in July 24th, 2008

Posted by admin in Cross-cultural Collaboration, Uncategorized

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Here we are on our last day (and also sadly the last day of the Networking for Success workshop), with Ugo of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria and 4 Internet volunteers from South Korea.
Thanks for coming, Ji Young, Sunfeel, Ji Yeong, Sujung! we really enjoyed your presentation.

ICTs: Progress & Challenges in Nigeria II

Published in July 24th, 2008

Posted by Babatope in Cross-cultural Collaboration, Technology

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A good booK I like to refer to says better is the end of a thing than its beginning. So, I’d start this by saying congratulations to everyone who has been involved in the NFS project since inception till today (last day). Also, kudos to W.TEC who are facilitating this platform bringing us all together.
Meanwhile, [...]

Progress & Challenges: Using ICTs in Nigeria

Published in July 22nd, 2008

Posted by Gbenga Sesan in Cross-cultural Collaboration, Technology

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I should start by thanking (and congratulating) W.TEC on the successful completion of this awesome experience. I started writing online (it wasn’t called blogging at the time) in 1999 because I was told that Africa had about 0.01% content on the internet. Though we’ve come a long way since then (thanks to FaceBook and Blogger), [...]

cross culture

Published in July 10th, 2008

Posted by Funmilayo in Cross-cultural Collaboration

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Hi joan just read through your post on cross cultural collaboration. I think it will be good if a whole lot of people can actually do this. I think it will appreciate each other’s culture and individual better.

“How can you practically develop the skill [to collaborate cross-culturally]“

Published in July 9th, 2008

Posted by Joan in Cross-cultural Collaboration

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Oluwafadekemi, thanks for posing this question.
How do you develop practical skills for effective cross-cultural collaboration?
To start with, lets breakdown cross-cultural collaboration (C3) into two broad categories: Informal and Formal.
Informal C3 - involves networking amongst existing friends of different socio-cultural backgrounds. The nature of the relationship tend to be flexible since you were friends first, [...]

Cross-cultural collaboration

Published in July 8th, 2008

Posted by Oluwafadekemi in Cross-cultural Collaboration

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I want to start by saying that this is an educative piece and, Thank you Joan.

Anyone who has traveled a little I believe would appreciate the diversity we have within and between different cultures. I happen to agree with you that the ability to collaborate across cultures is essentially necessary for not only advocacy work [...]

Cross-cultural collaboration

Published in July 6th, 2008

Posted by Joan in Cross-cultural Collaboration

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As one who has traveled widely and worked with a diverse array of people: different races, socio-economic background, diverse religious affiliations and so on. I have come to realize that the ability to collaborate across cultures is an essential aspect of civil society/advocacy work. Since no one is an island unto itself, it is quite [...]