OVF Ghana Ecotour 09

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[edit] oneVillage Ecotour Service and Learning 09 Summary:

Recently 10 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) students traveled to Ghana for one month to get service learning experiences focusing on Information Development and Digital Philanthropy.

The students who traveled to Ghana included: Becky Hsin, Betty Lee, Jin Hsueh, Joyce Tsao, Julian Chu, Karina Sun, Lexie Fang, Okis Lin, Olivia Cheng and Tina Wang.


[edit] Ectour Activities:

  • Basic ICT training for junior high school students and their teachers as part of the New Academic Year IT School;
  • Producing a digital archive for Denkyira Kingdom;
  • Demonstrate how the Jukwa Farmers Coop can further develop the palm oil process facility to improve their economic conditions;
  • Documenting the production of the African drums and to study the region's forestry habitat at Okurase;
  • Attended Maker Faire Africa, an event that promotes grassroots innovations in appropriate technologies, which was held at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra.

The above efforts combined further builds the bridge for effective Information & Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) that's empowered by Open Source collaboration between Ghana/Africa and Taiwan.


[edit] Online Documentation and Posting of Student's Reports

After the trip to Ghana the NTHU 09 team focused on documenting their work and also that of their counterparts in Ghana working for OVF Ghana.

The following tools were available for the posting of information online

  1. Winneba Open Digital Village Wiki: http://www.wodiv.opendigitalvillage.net
  2. NTHU "Learners" Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55534783723
  3. *Ghana oneVillage Ecotour Service and Learning Program Service and Learning Program Student Blog (in Chinese): http://ghanaeco.blogspot.com/


In addition to the above, they also will be using Wikipedia updating existing sites about Jukwa and Denkyira Kingdom. OVF's YouTube Channel is being used for the posting of video content and making that available to the public.

[edit] Wiki Documentation

WODiV wiki should be used for all locally relevant content such as the Denkyira Kingdom historical artifacts and also the plan for the further development of the Palm oil press.

Preliminary list of proposed pages for online Ecotour documentation (not all will have wiki pages created for them as some will only be posted on YouTube):


[edit] Post-Ecotour Presentation Events:

As part of this process, we have designing into the process a series of Post-EcoTour events in which the students explain their work to the general public and the Taiwan stakeholders who supported the process. This years EcoTour includes the following:

  • 09.27.09 ICOS OVF Community Day - As part of a several hour event as a subset of the International Conference on Open Source, students led by Julian, provided report and presentation (NTHU Students EcoTou09 PPT) on the Ecotour with a focus on the New Academic Year IT School training and their experiences in the use of Open Source; in particular Prof Hung’s USB Drive Linux system. Our Report on the event is here.
  • 0.16-17.09 TEDx Taipei (Tentative) – OVF's Joy Tang has been invited to speak at the local TED conference TEDx Taipei which is taking place on Oct 17th.
  • 10.01-31.09 Friday Movie Night @ Ecole Cafe - For the month of October, Friday night movie night at Ecole Café will be dedicated to chronicling NTHU student experiences in Ghana and will include inviting sponsors and supporters to these video showings;


[edit] Evaluation Process:

Students went over some issues that they believe if addressed can lead to an improvement in the effectiveness of 2010 team's experience. A key point was to make sure there was plenty of planning for the coaching of next year' team by the previous one The issues that came up in the evaluated process included:

  • Communications between team and OVF Ghana;
  • Going over the plans for each video so that the time is used well;
  • Designing program for alternative back up plans for Internet and power outages as they affected communications and the rate at which some projects were completed.


[edit] Planning for 2010

The trip overall was a success and OVF is grateful for the effort these students put into the 2009 project. Plans are underway for the 2010 project. This includes efforts to improve the communications and planning so that students can get the most out of their experiences before, during and after the trip to Ghana. One thing that was discussed was having more opportunities for past students enrolled in the program to act as mentors to coach the current students. A notable addition to the program will be funding for a student who has completed the program to travel back to Ghana and aid in efforts to plan the trip from the field.

[edit] Additional Online Resources related to this Program:

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