One of our chief interests is to work with willing participants and partners who are committed to determining necessary and appropriate steps to take to improve the process of bringing people together to work side-by-side while sharing perspectives and fostering cultural understanding.
African Views framework is being built to provide online services to users who are made up of persons or agencies that use information or intelligence produced by African Views contributors. The critical task to establish the vision of African Views in its entirety requires active involvement of various professionals, individuals and scholars across boundaries and disciplines to help complete the tasks. African Views welcomes everyone from anywhere willing to contribute their talent and knowledge to support this effort.
The task of developing and operating African Views framework is divided into three independent but coordinative modules essential to complete the system’s cycle and the whole structure. The three modules in the system cycles are architectural, engineering and operational cycle of the framework. Each module requires a set of commitments and disciplines essential to complete its objective. The modules are sequential in due coordinative a process, making up the complete system cycle which allows and improves the efficiency and development of necessary and effective services.
We are constantly in search for talent who will continue to bring new ideas, concepts and innovation to light! As an integral member of the African Views framework intelligence team, you will be rewarded with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others and favored by what possibilities might be for your future with African Views organization.
Active volunteering opportunities make it easy for students, faculty and staff to get engaged in the process. They can engage and assist generally in all kinds of African Views services and activities. Some of the immediate recommendations are as follows:
Promote volunteerism and raising awareness of the African Views framework opportunities on school campuses and communities.
Connect and coordinate with students, faculty and staff in other schools.
Designate responsibilities to groups of students in many campuses.
Provide leadership and advocacy on issues relating to building capacity for effective local intelligence team and managers of vital statistics required for country pages.
Provide research on projects and educational material resources
Identify people with opportunities to serve through recruitment and referral of volunteers to community agencies.
Assist in any of architectural, engineering or operational phases based on building the African Views framework.
How to work with us? If you are interested in working with us, please register here and contact us to explore possibilities. You can send your resume via emails to: av@africanviews.org - to inquire about how you can participate or contribute to African Views innovation process.
By becoming a member, you will be joining the African Views (AV) global intelligence team. The AV intelligence team is comprised of scholars and professionals from various academic disciplines and interests, many of whom are specialists on specific countries or specific issues. The following are various levels of memberships with AV.
Governing Members: Board Trustees and Board Advisors
Corporate Members: Work Actively on the organization daily administration
Volunteer: Assists in AV operations, programs, project development,
Internship: Students who earns academic credit and gain experience by working with us
Student Chapters: Students who wish to establish and operate an African Views chapter in their Schools AVAWA (Women and Gender Commission Advocates and Representatives)
Friends of AV: People who like the work we do and just want to support us
AV Partners: Works in partnership with AV on programs or projects
AV Collaborators: Collaborates to support each other on programs and projects
Contributors: Contributes content and other intellectual materials to African Views Research and Media operations
Sponsor and Donors: Sponsors all or some aspects of AV operations, or donates to support AV program and projects
As a member of this team, you are in good company. You will be referred to whenever there is a topic of relevance on your expertise. So, this is quite a responsibility that we believe will benefit you scholastically, professionally, and socially. We expect African Views associates to be highly self-motivated, confident and capable professional for the challenges of their position. Based on your interest and expertise you will be working in our fast-growing department, which includes research, media, and development - implementation, supervision and operations, programs and strategic partnerships in your country and within the global community. A member must continue to interact professionally within culturally diverse settings and cultivate the ability to work productively in collaborative settings. We expect members to maintain strong character traits, including gender and cultural sensitivity, and able to function independently to a large degree.
The objective of African Views framework is not merely to collect facts, or to generate content, or conduct events but to interpret facts in such a way that reflect the call and need of timeless principles of the will of all peoples to reach consensus for collaborating to improve existing cultural potentials for human and societal sustenance, sovereign development and effectiveness.
In addition to your basic assignments, we invite you to join us in expanding African Views student chapter in college and universities around you. Our basic goal is continuing to cover and report all African and African Diaspora events from various aspect of the societal life. This strategy is key to bringing together the ideas and the consensus required to improve human conditions in many developing countries around the world.
To achieve this goal, we need to put together a team of interns interested in economics, international and domestic laws, various fields in medicine, journalism, videographers, photographers, writers, reporters, outreach director in schools, and communities. The AV framework will serve as the repository of all information collected. This information will be facilitated for free world global public access and useful and intelligible information excerpted from it will be channelled accordingly with reference and acknowledgement its source.
All members can participate in African Views programs and Projects as well as represent African Views at various institutional conferences including UN activities according to their capacity and interest. There is a voluntary of 250 dollars Annual Membership fee, exempt for students and unemployed members. All those who wish to obtain Ground Passes Access to the United Nations Headquarters must fill out the AV APPLICATION FOR AV REPRESENTATION and must be members in good standing with their Annual Membership fee.
Send email inquiry to av@africanviews.org
Anyone willing and able to contribute can participate at any level. The ultimate goal is to combine intelligence and wisdom from various professional disciplines and scholastic departments in order to generate new ideas and stimulate a great deal of innovation that people need to attain a higher level of perspectives and performance.
African Views welcomes agents of change and talent that will continue to bring the new ideas, concepts and innovation we need. We invite scholars, seekers, travelers, entrepreneurs, investors and marketers to work with us as contributing partners or as volunteers. Individuals, especially students, can contribute according to their specialty or various fields of studies, ability or interests.
African Views provides a unique opportunity for students, faculty and staff to harness the vitality and passion on their school campus to make a lasting difference by participating in this exciting movement of changing bias perspectives and stimulating innovation.
We also encourage direct participation in research assignments such as collecting facts and validating data. Students can create topics, surveys and open ended questions. Participants can also generate new content toward the scores and ranking and audience can review and rate contributed materials.
African Views organization has been formed to mobilize, energize, and stimulate the intellectual and creative resources of all people in all countries. So that we may focus on those inherently bad paradigms that are adversely and inadvertently stifling the innovation of sustainable human development and growth around the world we love. The understanding and the awareness of these problems, as well as the opportunities for sustainable development, have been a major challenge for the past and immediate generations. We here now, individually and collectively, hold the responsibilities at all levels for improving the understandings and interactions between the human race and cultural strata. Thus, we are making it a better place for the next generation. People are central to that task, not the government or private interest organizations. The only way we can work for a common cause or common interest, to improve our conditions, is certainly through communication and collaboration at the population level.
African Views is committed to developing an efficient communicative and collaborative system and we are looking forward to your contribution. We expect those who are passionate about innovative ways of solving social problems to support this trend and help in creating a more powerful ally for participatory development. Basically, it deals with voluntary participation in spreading knowledge and exchange of insight, as well as synergizing abilities and capabilities across cultural boundaries in order to take care of our future and the world we love.
People can no longer expect governments to fulfill all regulatory services for social and human conditions by themselves while they wait on the side lines. It is exactly these kinds of expectations that create disconnections between a governing body of people and its society. Wherever such disconnect or lack of adequate communication exists between a government and its sovereign, unjust laws are made or good laws are unenforceable. Instead of shifting blames on governments or people, especially as it is common practice in developing countries, a shift in paradigms can ultimately be more useful: integrity begets accountability and it cannot be the other way around (not accountability begets integrity).
This may sound rather too optimistic. But major changes and new emphases have already begun to appear on the development scene. There are still many organizations that keep asking you for money to keep feeding the third world’s people needs. Yet the old adage expresses common sense that when you give a man a fish and you'd feed him for a day. However, teach him how to fish and you'd feed him for a life time. People need to ask appropriate questions, especially when their expectations are not met. People need to know how to best demand for accountability when expected conditions for humanity are inadequate. People need to learn how things are working successfully elsewhere, and how they can use similar methods to improve things in their own domains. People need to dig further into deeper esoteric pockets to look for valuable information to help resolve common problems. People need to know that African Views framework is where they can participate in these kinds of activities.
African Views framework enables academics and public observers to access information and publish dissertations, discourses, or literatures on any African related issues or subjects and collaborate -- free of charge. African Views services include copyrights for individual publications, merchant service for publishers, and other collaborative and information service provisions. Since ancient times, exchange of information has been the background for communication among people. Today, new technologies are becoming widely available for informing people, opening up avenues by which they may reach consensus for action.
Indeed, a host of structural adjustments are profoundly taking place and generating new social economy in recent human interaction according to the UNDP. Societies are becoming more open to debate and markets are welcoming more individual initiatives; privatization and entrepreneurship are being encouraged. These structural adjustments make demands, and have direct economic and social effects on people wherever diversity is appreciated and viewed as strength for qualitative social and economic outreach.
African Views recognizes these trends of opportunities as incentives for all to participate. This is why African Views is prioritizing cross cultural communication on multiple levels of humanity. This activity will generate a spontaneous and cumulative repository of information that is focused on African issues. Free exchange of information will be the motivation for communication and collaboration. As the world moves towards greater democracy, decentralization and the market economy, conditions will become more favorable for people to start steering their own course of change. However, it is vital to stimulate their awareness, participation, and capabilities. African Views framework is equipped with cutting edge technologies that are central to this task. Clearly, technology alone will not suffice without the dedication of committed individuals who encourage effective planning and implementation of communication and collaborative programs.
See the underlying challenges section in AV brochures
Trust requires trustworthiness. By creating and maintaining a safe place where people can come together to ask questions, learn about others, teach, share valuable information, collaborate, discuss inter-personal socio cultural issues, and have open dialogues in order to find solutions-- an improvement in collective paradigms and newly inspire new visions can begin to develop. A development strategy that uses communication approaches can reveal people's underlying attitudes and traditional wisdom, help people to adapt their views and to acquire new knowledge and skills, and spread new social messages to large audiences.
On a practical aspect, African Views proposes a value balance system that is focused on highlighting counterparty’s interests and validating stake holders on its framework. These options are available for people collaborating on international projects or offering products or services across national boundaries on the framework. When interests are identified on both ends, communication barriers are removed. The planned use of communication techniques, activities, and media gives people powerful tools both to experience a paradigm shift and actually to guide it. An intensified exchange of ideas among all sectors of society can lead to the greater involvement of people in a common cause. This is a fundamental requirement for major improvement and appropriate development.
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