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Welcome to OFWA
Welcome to a Network of Communities
Preserving Africa's Culture
Soft-skills, Tech-based
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Our Community

Our organization runs on the passion of our dedicated community of volunteers. People who are devoted to learning and contributing their quota to bridging the skills, technology, and information gap in Africa. It is this dedication that culminates in our drive to contribute to the Open Movement.

Our Programs

As a non-profit, we desire to impact lives in diverse ways. We’re looking for opportunities to contribute to the African Development story. A story that resonates with the quality, impact, and importance of our programs.

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Creation

Advocacy

Open Education

Corporate
Consultancy

Partner With Us

Our plethora of mutually beneficial partnerships are vital to the running of our activities. At the heart of our organization is the desire to impact and influence without seeking to make profit. Become a part of our impactful journey and leave your own unique mark on the African continent and its West African sub region.

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Soft-skills, Tech-based

At Open Foundation West Africa, we understand the fact that ‘soft skills’ are not as much “skills” as they are desirable “qualities” that can make a lot of difference in our performance and growth as an organisation.

Essentially, we thrive on giving room for both team and community members to exhibit traits that help advance our cause- from Leadership, to proper time Management, Teamwork, effective Communication and Critical Thinking, OFWA is open to the idea that soft skills are attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.

Added to that, we embrace a digital culture, workplace, and mindset, focusing on the advantages of new technology instead of clinging to traditional methods and processes.

At the core of our organisation is the practical use of technology in training, business and industry. As an organisation, we are innovative and strive to make use of new advances in technology to better deliver on our commitments, and evolve with the marketplace.

At Open Foundation West Africa, there’s no aversion of technological advancement, and thus, we always seek to create an environment which gives mobility, freedom, and creativity to innovate.

Ultimately, as a tech-based organisation, we are ever ready to adopt change instead of running from it.

Preserving Africa's Culture

In spite of the great strides Africa has made in terms of e-connectivity,  the highest recorded growth globally in internet access stood at 24.4% in 2018; a major jump from 2.1% in 2005. 

With only 27% of the continent’s population with internet access, Africa still lags behind the rest of the world. The problem is made even worse by accessibility figures of around 90% in North America and Europe. The African narrative, which should be controlled by Africans, for Africans, is virtually non-existent.

The main commonality among Africans is the oral nature of the culture, thus, the importance of preserving African cultural heritage in the information age can never be overstated. From festivals, to food, to  monuments; preserving Africa’s cultural heritage with the help of Information Communication Technology (ICT) contributes significantly to establishing the African identity.

 

With this in mind, Open Foundation West Africa, is committed to contributing it’s quota to bridging the gap that exists in and around gender, content, and accessibility but ultimately, the gap that exists in and around Africa’s representation on the internet.

Network of Communities

At Open Foundation West Africa, we have created a social structure made of individuals or organisations that are tied by more than one specific type of interdependency. The purpose of our  network of communities is to bring together people bound by the same values, visions, ideas and commitments among other things.

Communities of volunteers made up of developers, writers and other astute professionals within campus clubs or community hubs.

We encourage each and everyone to be a part of our network of communities without fear of discrimination on any basis. There are community policies and systems in place to take appropriate action to respond to incidents of harassment, racial, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination.

 

We encourage members of our communities to take up roles that help them exhibit leadership qualities while providing an environment for the free and open expression of ideas. We also embrace various cultural perspectives and contributors, and respect individuals and value their differences.

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Welcome to Open Foundation West Africa

We are a soft skills tech-based organization and a network of communities, committed to digitally representing and preserving the culture of Africa, and developing skills on the continent using an open-centered approach to deliver Skills Training and Capacity building opportunities for people whose stories and passions resonate deeply with ours in a way that is consistent with the quality, impact, and importance of our projects.

In 2016 we officially began a journey that sought to do the following:

Advocacy & Awareness: As a non-profit organization, our commitment is to Advocacy and Awareness creation for policy, policy change, e.t.c. This dedication partly culminates in our drive to contribute to the Open Movement as a recognised affiliate of Wikimedia and Creative Commons.

Training and Development: We are focused on adding value to the skill sets of both community members and organisations. We are passionate about identifying skill gaps and providing relevant content to bridge those gaps.

We are also equipped to provide and effect training for individuals and organisations in Entrepreneurship, UN SDGs among others. 

Consultancy Services: We are equipped to advise on Creative Commons and other areas of expertise as a non-profit. We create opportunities that invite all who work or have experience in the areas of our expertise to partner and collectively reach a greater impact. We also provide expert consultancy services in Research, Copyright and licensing along with Kiwix Deployment. 

Digitization and Digitalisation: As part of our attempt to contribute to the digital representation of Africa and its culture, we have developed programs and events as an avenue to contribute our quota to a well represented Africa.
These programs include but are not limited to the following:

  • Tour Ghana
  • Curriculum digitisation