Pam McLean — The “UK Office” for Several Foundations
Pam McLean, who will appear in the African Segment, helps to coordinate various networking and fundraising efforts on behalf of organizations as mentioned her note to us.
My background is in teaching. I have been interested in educational applications of computers/ICT/digital-technologies ever since I did a degree course with the Open University. I think of myself as an e-learner studying how ICTs can enable the development of educational systems. I learn through reading, joining in discussion groups, and through practical field work during “working holidays” in rural Nigeria.
As a CAWD-volunteer I work with Fantsuam Foundation and Oke-Ogun Community Development Network. You can think of my home computer as the UK office of these projects. I can be useful as an intermediary because I know the projects well and I am “bandwidth rich” (with my own broadband connection) while my Nigerian friends are “bandwidth challenged” (with many problems regarding going online).
I am the director of Cawdnet Campus which I co-founded with Lorraine Duff and Omo Oaiya. It is an experimental project exploring ICT for Education (ICT4Ed) and ICT for Development (ICT4D). Cawdnet Campus is a virtual meeting place for people and organisations who are part of the Cawdnet network. They are people I met and started to collaborate with through my voluntary work with CAWD - a small UK charity. New people who share our interests and collaborative approach are welcome.
My own favourite working group at Cawdnet Campus relates to “TT” (Teachers Talking - About ICT), which I first presented at the end of 2004. The TT programme consists of three parts - the No-Computer Computer Course, Hands On Computers, and TT-Online. Members of the TT-Online support group created a wiki to support the first TT course. Click here for more.
For a whole bunch of lovely photos from the 2006 TT course see
Recently, in collaboration with John Dada, I have registered a company called DadaMcLean Limited - Knowledge Brokers. This means that John and I now have a mechanism for working together for payment as well as working together as volunteers. Our hope is that DadaMclean will help to put people in touch across the digital divide, enabling development projects of various kinds to “hit the ground running” by using our knowledge and networks.
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October 8th, 2006 at 3:03 am
John Dada is well worth knowing and the link given above does not tell you much - so I’ve cut and pasted from elsewhere.
Biographical Statement
John Dada, Programs Director, Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria. Background in academic research, nursing and rural community development, a trained nurse. Fantsuam Foundation is sharing and building information for rural development, facilitating the achieving of MDGs in rural Nigeria through ICT-enabled community development. He has served as Chair of the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, member of PICTA, membership committee of the Global Knowledge Partnership and Executive Board of the Association for Progressive Communications. Fantsuam Foundation’s efforts has been profiled on CNN’s Global Challenges and BBC World
Vision of their contribution to the GA Strategy Council
Providing a reality check of what ICTs are doing, can do and cannot do, to facilitate grassroots development.