MALAMU | E-Education

Knowledge Sharing Campaign (KSC)

Overview

Knowledge Sharing Campaign (KSC) 0 empowers African students in the diaspora 1 and reverses brain drain by providing them with access to modern technology, which becomes a culture that promotes the love for quality education. Every month, we bring together hundreds of African students for weekend workshops to teach them basic computer skills so they can improve their education and their job prospects when they go home. We then offer a few selected students a 4-week hands-on Agile software development internship. Students in this program do problem solving using the discipline of Agile software development and are expected to develop a simple application. This teaches them a discipline useful in many environments even if they don’t become programmers.

We realise that the scattered young Africans around the globe form a powerful, huge community that can be united through a love for quality education using technology. We learn that the African student diaspora in India is as large as around 100,000 students. Young men and women who left their families are hungry for knowledge and passionate about quality education, which is key for today’s youth to plan for a better future.

KSC pulls together African student communities in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune, and we discover that most of them do not even know how to efficiently use basic tech tools like Google applications, while they have Gmail accounts, because only about 10% of KSC participants had true exposure and access to a computer before. KSC provides students with the capacity, social capital and a common practice of how to solve problems and make decisions together. More than tech, more than expertise, KSC sees this as the rocket fuel needed, to give communities tech skills, to demand a safe and more inclusive environment of continuous learning and dignity for themselves and for Africa.

Review of KSC Vision and Mission

Mission

The KSC will be a world leader in the integration of:

  1. Teaching and learning.
  2. Advancement of the knowledge base through research.
  3. Leadership in collaboration and outreach.
  4. Innovation in order to move from consumers to producers of technology.
  5. Entrepreneurship in order to contribute to job creation.

Further the Knowledge sharing campaign will be a leader in preparing professionals who provide leadership and exemplary educational and related services to improve the lives of individuals in a changing and complex global society.

Vision

The vision of the Knowledge Sharing Campaign is to empower Africans to become outstanding educators, scholars, and researchers, to advance in the profession of education, as broadly defined, through research on the science and art of teaching and learning, the effective uses of technology, and the analysis and development of leadership and educational policy. A KSC ambassador should become a world changer, that spreads the example of a platform of collaborative learning experience that crosses disciplines and merges ideas to create new thinking for a new world. The core values of KSC are academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation. Create a new crop of open minded African leaders who will find solutions to African problems.

Goals

Develop infrastructure and support, including innovative technology, for research, teaching, service and partnerships. Develop and maintain model collaborative ventures and partnerships. Maintain and continue to improve a climate of respect and human dignity. Prepare students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. Ensure that ambassadors develop both the skills and competencies essential for success and leadership in the emerging creative economy.

Values

  1. Leadership: We value and are committed to exercising leadership characterized by innovation and vision.
  2. Excellence: We value excellence in teaching, service and research. We are committed to promoting creative and critical thinking among alumni. A culture of inspiration, accountability and quality service to members.
  3. Social and Ethical Responsibility: We value honesty, fairness, respect, compassion, and professional and scholarly ethics among alumni and students. We are committed to increasing access to opportunity and promoting social justice.
  4. Diversity: We value respect for cultural, individual and role difference
  5. Integrity: This is one of our major core values and every KSC member adheres to this without compromise.

  • Academic excellence and integrity
  • Outstanding teaching and service
  • Scholarly research and professional leadership
  • Integration of teaching, research, and service
  • Individual and collective excellence
  • Diversity, equity, and social justice
  • Education of individuals across the lifespan

Knowledge Sharing Campaign

  1. All people are entitled to high-quality education, grounded in sensitivity to individual dignity, professional integrity, and a positive and nurturing environment.
  2. A literate and educated african is vital to a democratic society in Africa.
  3. African problems need African solutions and this will be possible if we produce a new crop of African leaders who will see through.

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