Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!

Rene — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:47:09 +0000

Obviously education is one of the topics that is important to me. recently I wrote about a teach first project. 6 month ago I was participating in a workshop organized by the Universities of Koblenz. This workshop was for future entrepreneurs teaching them some basics about design thinking and about business plans! Together with two other students and Philipp Reineke a student from WHU vallendar, who I met several times afterwards, we were following my idea of an open education social start up for Africa.
If you want to have a look at the business plan (in German language!) contact me. But I can’ publish it here.
Our concept was basically driven by the idea that the internet is an incredible source of information and knowledge and yields huge potential to bring education at very low cost to African countries (once you change the rules of how education is delivered and once you bring the infrastructure to africa) and the assumption that a country basically needs good education in order to develope!
Today I came across a video from Google search stories that totally supports this idea. I know from verious sources that google is rather active in brining internet to africa (e.g. there is o3b networks = other three billion networks: A company heavily supported by google with the goal to bring internet to the rest of the world!)
So have a look at this video:

what is your oppinion on africa and the internet?

Teach First Germany – Why education is a Human right.

Rene — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:24:18 +0000

Today i want to introduce you to a project that is very important to me! It is called Teach First Germany and follows the model of the uk based idea of teach first (see wikipedia). I don’t know if one could really call it social entrepreneurship but I would do so!
Teach First was first introduced to me by Simon Turschner during a summer school in Guidel in 2008. For the last 2 years he has been working as a fellow teacher with teach first and has just helped to create this video:

I think the video speaks for itself!
Last year I applied for Teach First Germany. I am very happy about their effort and think it is a project that needs support! When I got accepted to my PhD program I decided to drop out of the application process which was everything but easy to decide. Even though I put the PhD over teach first at that time, this programm is still very important to me and I can perfectly see myself applying again after finnishing my PhD. I would also like to encourage you to consider applying at teach first!
Last but not least I want to thank all the fellows especially Simon at teach first for making this effort and commitment. You guys are great! We need more people like you!

education – Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning Consulting in Koblenz Germany

Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!

Teach First Germany – Why education is a Human right.