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Home • Overview K4DWB provides ICT skills and knowledge to people around the world with information on sustainable development issues and practices. It includes learning and interaction tools between members and users to face challenges of the 21st century in their local communities.

• Key News-displaying current activities and Global trends

About Us • Vision A better world of economic and social justice in which local citizens are empowered to know, understand, secure and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Mission To provide relevant knowledge and skills needed to alleviate development issues at local levels by motivating people to express their individual and communities’s challenges, and getting them actively involved in finding out creative and innovative solutions. We use ICT to advocate and raise awareness on local best development practices development that can be shared and scaled up worldwide.

About Us • Our 7 Goals 1.

Share relevant knowledge and information to empower and help local citizens to know, understand, secure and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements for the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Motivate and empower local citizens to set up their own sustainable development initiatives, getting them actively involved in local development challenges.

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Identify and collect best development practices and information from development practitioners to inspire individuals, community leaders and decision makers for better and faster development interventions.

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Build a global network of volunteers to work with our regional staff to deal with local development issues.

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Monitor and evaluate the efficacy of local, national and international development aid interventions to emulate.

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Network and partner and with international and local NGOs, government structures, private sectors and development Agencies in identifying potential economic, social and environmental development issues, risks and their mitigation.

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Cultivate knowledge exchange and transfering, networking and using ICT to advance SDGs.

About Us • Approach • Online Development Aid

• Offline- Field Development

The mechanism consists of the

The aim is to provide trainings to

online StayConnecteD4Dev cloud

our members, volunteers and CBOs

platform developed in cooperation

in the field to help them establish

with IBM Austria GmbH. It is a

their own initiatives of development

marketplace all stakeholders can

in education, health, livelihoods,

use to discuss, post issues, search

citizenship- public awareness

for information, cases of success

campaigns, and good governance.

and make connections.

About Us • Team • Our diverse team is composed by people at our headquarters, by regional staff that work at the community level and at academic institutions, and by external collaborating specialists and development experts. Some of our colleagues and volunteers are located in different parts of the world to cover different communities’ needs. The general operations management is conducted at our headquarters in Vienna, Austria, where a truly multinational and multidisciplinary team is based.

The majority of our motivated volunteers are local residents of their communities, and thus are able to sustainably and effectively assist these communities establish and conduct their own development practices.

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CEO Program Director Partnership and Marketing Manager Field Managers

About Us • Endorsement • We are happy to support KFDWB – a sustainable development initiative.

Our cloud-based IBM Connections solution helps them promote education, social empowerment and Sustainable Development Goals achievement worldwide.

(Isabella Gassama-Luschin, Corporate Citizenship and Communications, IBM Österreich)

About Us • Join Us We are currently looking for dedicated and ambitious individuals volunteers to help us lead our program.At this stage, volunteers are unpaid.

Programs • Development trainings ICT is our chore. We believe that in this 21st century, human sustainable development requires public access to information, communication and technology. ICT skills and knowledge development becomes necessity in our global village. K4DWB works to support local marginalized and underprivileged communities with ICT tools and skills to deal with human development challenges.

Programs • Current Projects • Skills for development We currently deliver some basic ICT training courses for free ICT and internet can provide a wide range of benefits to users. That requires specific skills and knowledge. People who are lack of ICT skills, knowledge and understanding are limited in reaching out opportunities: jobs, business development and management, information sharing, SDGs, online courses, issues of health, legal, Women's rights, climate change, peace, addresses, institutions, companies etc. – Read more here We had a wonderful training experience in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Training description and curriculum can be found here, french version here. Download training report here Our business strategy is to make the training (read here) one day happen in each country to be spread across Africa and worldwide.

Programs • Current Projects • Community of practices The community of practices is a learning community of a cloud platform that supports members and stakeholders. It includes participants and nonparticipants of our programs/projects. It isa market place of giving and receiving-exchange of ideas, experiences, views, information, contacts and tools that help people to keep update on global challenges and opportunities for their individual and community goals setting and achievement. Read more here.

Programs • Current Projects • Information collection & development of case studies The aim is to motivate volunteers around the world to collect and share information of global trends of SDGs, negative and positive news and needs of their communities, countries and regions via a central database (read more here). News and needs are classified per continent in our website for donor’s actions and interventions (read more here). Case studies are posted (read here).

Programs • Upcoming Projects • Youth Skills & Enterprise Youth employment has become a top priority policy concern across countries and regions. This results in part from the fact that many young people have little or no relevant skills and are therefore largely excluded from productive economic and social life. There is increasing recognition among policy makers of the importance of taking advantage of the potential that young people represent for growth prospects, sustainable development and social cohesion and the need for developing strategies to foster youth employment and self-employment.

Such strategies must factor in the rapidly evolving labour market and the technological changes that have opened new frontiers, created new jobs, eliminated others and created new ways of working. ICT is now considered by many governments as a critical component of a responsive, demand-driven Education and Technical and Vocational Skills Development system tasked with meeting the needs for learners in formal and other learning environments.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • Youth Skills & Enterprise K4DWB is developing innovative models and frameworks designed to equip unemployed youth with digital and entrepreneurial skills that can enable them to start their own small businesses or to take up employment opportunities.

K4DWB will focus on collaborating with research, education and business communities to:  Consolidate and expand its informal education-enterprise models and frameworks designed to equip unemployed youth with digital and entrepreneurial skills  Consolidate and disseminate the model toolkit for building youth digital start-up and take-up capacities to create and avail of employment opportunities in digital and cultural media industries

Programs • Upcoming Projects • Leadership for Sustainable Development We are witnessing increasing demand for public sector leadership capable of driving sustainable development.

Leadership is becoming more collective, less individual. Many thinkers today suggest that innovation, change, new directions, and strategies emerge not from individuals, but from the social network, stressing the need for collective and distributed leadership to meet the challenges of social and economic development.

Additionally, two critical dimensions must be seriously taken into account when formulating and planning development policies: (a) ,,The SDGs recognize the vital role that women play in social and economic development and reform and the need for their full and equal participation and leadership in all areas of sustainable development‘‘ (The World Health Organization, 2015); (b) Based on the outcome of the COP21 conference, climate change and ecology are to be reflected in every aspect of social and economic development.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • K4DWB focus of work: For the period 2017-21 K4DWB will work with governments, ministries of ICT, STI, Education, Universities and School of Government partners linked to leadership development to:  Scale up a distributed model of the ICT programme regionally and internationally;  Enhance the programme to include critical themes for sustainable development – inclusive of environmental sustainability, women leadership, social equity and inclusive development.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • ICT in Teacher Development There has been a renewed focus in the SDGs on the need for quality teaching and learning. Historically, there has been less attention paid to the role of teachers and teaching which are key to improving the quality of education.

Now the need is for a radical shift in teacher preparation towards school based professional learning and collaborative design approaches that are timely and relevant to teacher professional learning needs. The requirement to reform and transform teacher education as on-going life-long engagement will be a critical challenge in the post 2015 education.

Quality ICT-enabled teaching and learning can only occur in school environments which enjoys a positive ICT culture, has a basic level of digital equipment and where ICT use and integration is championed by the principal and senior staff.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • ECOWAS Digital Schools Initiative The ECOWAS Digital Schools Initiative (EDSI) is a comprehensive program to implement digital school development in secondary schools to transform secondary schools into digital schools of distinction.

It is designed specifically to build secondary-level student 21st century skills and teachers’s innovative practice in a way that is responsive to the needs of the market place and to the emerging knowledge of economies and societies.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • ECOWAS Digital Schools Initiative K4DWB’s focus of work for the period 2017-21 K4DWB will work with governments, ministries of education partners and national institutions linked to teacher professional development to:  Expand its ‘phased approach’ models for teacher´s professional development based on ICT competency frameworks and the K4DWB Digital Schools of Distinction Framework which includes head teacher capacity building to support digital whole school development;  Integrate blended learning approaches to ensure practical application of professional learning with technology in school and classroom practice;  Improve the quality of teaching and learning through school-based and virtual teacher communities of practice for collaboration on e-lesson and e-resource design.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • Local Community Based Learning It is widely recognized that literacy is an indispensable foundation and means to empower people to cope with the complexities of life and active participation in society.

Despite this realization, little progress has been made in reducing illiteracy rates worldwide. There are still about 781 million illiterate adults in the world and in regions experiencing booming economic growth, in particular Africa, illiteracy may reach even greater heights, challenging countries to make heroic efforts in order to deliver basic education services to all.

ICTs hold tremendous potential to improve both access to and the quality of education in both formal and informal environments and reaching the unreached.

K4DWB will work with governments, partners and local communities to:  Explore new models for the use of mobile technologies to support community based learning literacy and numeracy initiatives;  Adapt and adopt its models and frameworks piloted and up-scaled in existing programs and projects for community and cross-generational learning initiatives.

Programs • Upcoming Projects • Leadership Network for Sustainable Development • K4DWB will launch the 'Leadership Network for Sustainable Development' soon.

• The network will comprise local community leaders, decision makers, government officials and experts, practitioners and researchers join together to strengthen Africa’s capacities to implement the SDGs.

Get Involved • Video conferences You are welcome to plan with K4DWB staff and members, video conferences through StayConnecteD4Dev platform.

Get Involved • Partnerships We believe strongly in partnerships. We are willing to a diverse array of stakeholders through which we call multi-stakeholder partnerships.

These partnerships are critical in our work because development is a vital but complex and dynamic process that requires everyone with a stake to pitch in.

We look for partners range from Ministries of Education and Training, Higher Education and Research, Science, Technology and Innovation, and Youth, donors, civil society organizations, private sector entities, community organizations and other organizations working in ICT, innovation and education development space.

Get Involved • Chapter You can serve with us as Chapter Coordinator in implementing our vision in your country, region or local communities.

StayConnecteD4Dev • Overview An empowering learning community platform in which you can share and expand your ideas, experience with others. This platform gathers civil societies, academics, development practitioners, and communities’s leaders across the world to share innovative visions, strategies, knowledge, monitoring and evaluation tools, solutions, best management practices in dealing with SDGs challenges.

StayConnecteD4Dev • Community Learning Centre There is a need for a sustainable development education in local communities using a language that they understand to avoid hostility and promote feeling of responsibility for future generations to have access to the same resources like other. This requires innovative training opportunities for basic Development skills.

The StayConnecteD4Dev is a Community Learning Center based on a cloud solution to promote education, Peace, measurement of impacts, advocacy skills, capacity building focused on knowledge of the SDGs, social empowerment and development worldwide. It seeks to host, manage, share, and disseminate relevant knowledge in the local and official education languages of the communities using our platform, and to facilitate Entrepreneurship and SME Management Training, job skills training, connections and networking between individuals and groups dedicated to sustainable development. The cloud platform technology serves not only to inspire and deliver learning, but also as a mechanism where information about ongoing development practices and opportunities are shared.

StayConnecteD4Dev • Community of Practices Not only does the cloud platform help to conduct our training of local trainers, but also supports all members in exchanging views, information, learningmaterial, contacts and helps them to keep up even after finalization of a training. To stay connected and not get forgotten or disoriented again is the main goal of this sustainable approach.

StayConnecteD4Dev • Virtual Business Expo For interested partners, volunteers or donors our cloud is the ideal platform for information and getting in contact with organizations and people needing their support. The StayConnecteD4Dev aims to create the best possible networking and a specific marketing space for potential users like government agencies, donors, private sector, national, international development agencies or organizations worldwide. Due to the constant evolution of the Internet, connecting development experts and leaders in the same space for the same causes are our top visions. This will avoid duplication of project sand activities.

The StayConnecteD4Dev is an ideal community’s center within our global community group to network and connect with key government agencies, development agencies and industry leaders that supports and promotes SME sector worldwide.

StayConnecteD4Dev • Information collection & development of case studies Here you will find our ever growing data collection that KFDWB has received from volunteers and individuals around the world for action or intervention.

A summary of all the data (Quarterly Update) that have been received

by KFDWB via our global data collection database are shown in the table below per country. These information can help donors to better understand, identify common global, local issues, and in their early diagnostics for intervention. (e.g. currently collected data exploration). You can find some of our old case studies here. If you need a new case study please contact us here.

KFDWB can provide you with a full Case Study for any of the support requests shown in the table below. The Case Study includes, but is not limited to the following: a review of all previous relevant local, national and international reports, knowledge of previous and/or current donor funding and their objectives, the actual situation on the ground with respect to funding, testimonials from local community members, media reports, photographic and/or video evidence. Where possible KFDWB is able to provide a basic costed solution or volunteer assistance for the remediation of the community problem.

Resources Development Practices We share and report best development practices on SDGs achievement. As development practitioner, you are invited to contact us to share and publish your articles and model in: ICT Peace Accountability Transparence Gender Equity Leadership Women’s leadership Justice Democracy

Good Governance Transparent and Free Election Human Rights Environment Corporate Social Responsibility Employability Entrepreneurship and Business Development

Resources • Training Tools To reach people even in the most rural and poorest areas in the world, KFDWB has created the Development Aid Support Mechanism, which consists of the new online StayConnecteD4Dev cloud platform and offline Field Development Support in order to empower its members, its active volunteers and local communities and to help them establishing their own initiatives to engage in education, health, public awareness campaigns, and government programs. StayConnecteD4Dev cloud platform is a valuable tool for training, preparation and contact of and with vocational trainers and trainees in urban and remote communities.

Resources • Reporting KFDWB provides here all reports of the completed trainings.

• Aid Agencies Here you can find a list of aid agencies, which provide regional and international development aid or assistance, divided between national (mainly OECD countries) and international organizations.

Donations Your financial support is precious to help us lead our programs throughout grassroots communities. We thank you for any amount of financial support.

Bank Account: IBAN: AT482011182761543900, Swift Code/BIC: GIBAATWWXXX

Partners The world today constantly needs innovations in information and knowledge connectivity to positively impact people’s lives. We are happy to have IBM Austria as our partner, supporting us to bring volunteers around the world together by connecting them with relevant information and knowledge for learning and economic empowerment.

Taking a leading role in technology, IBM is an inspiration for us and generations to come in the way they use technology to bring together people through social collaboration tools. The IBM grant of Connections (Read more here), a social collaboration platform, helps our 800+ volunteers to connect over country boarders (StayConnecteD4Dev), to share successful development practices, education materials and discuss their issues on the ground.

You can also become our national or international partner. Thank you for your support.

Contact • Visit our website: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/ • Don‘t hesitate to contact us or if you are interested in volunteering for sustainable local development, send us your CV here: enquiries@knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org