African Views Organization

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AFRICAN VIEWS

 

Information| Communication| Collaboration

 

 

 

About African Views Organization

 

 

African Views (AV) is a research, media, and development non-profit organization. Our mission is to provide, communicate, and implement information for social development, cultural advancement, and parity. African Views was founded in Pelurihno, Salvador De Bahia in 2006. It became registered as corporation in the United States of America in 2007. The Organization became a US nonprofit in 2009, started its official field operation on June 15, 2010 and became a designated 501 C3 in May 2011.

 

 

The organization carries out contractual research, operates media communication programs, monitoring and evaluation, public survey, conducts education programs and workshops at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. African Views focuses on four key areas: Education, Environment, Economy and Health.

 

African Views Organization is registered in the United States as an independent (non-affiliated) non-profit 501 C3 Corporation. The organization operates a framework for information, communication, and collaboration on human and societal development with the objective of drawing and combining intelligence and wisdoms from various indigenous cultures, professional disciplines, and scholastic departments worldwide.

 

 

 

 

 

Our main branches are:

1. AV Media: Advocacy , Documentary, Radio, TV, Social Media, Print Publishing

 

2. AV Collaborative Projects: Project development and collaboration

 

3. African Views Sustainable Development Research and Design Institute

 

 

AV Multimedia Advocacy and Documentary Division

This is the media division of our organization. We use strategic and innovative approaches to inform, communicate and promote public debate, and generate community consensus through our radio programs. We use social media and traditional tools such telephone, Skype, Google phone and conference call to hold discussion across international boundaries with goal of raising awareness, finding solutions, and understanding the complexity of high level focal trends. Our Current programs are as follows: http://www.africanviews.org/av-radio

 

 

AV E/Print Publishing Division

 

This section handles AV E/Print publications. AV publication includes publications from our partners such as African News and Amandla news. We also plan to launch African Views magazine in June 2012. The magazine will focus on activities and events around the world directly or remotely affecting Africa. It will also include global perspectives on Africa, as well as African perspectives on globalization.

 

 

African Views Sustainable Development Research Institute

 

The main purpose of this institute is to explore various ways and means of understanding humanities, building capacity, and deploying knowledge and expertise, as well as technologies that leads to a truly sustainable society that does not compromise the value of the society and the environment.

 

 

The AV Framework

 

African Views (AV) framework is foremost a concept for raising awareness as well as an education framework about global consciousness on responsibilities and efficacy in the world. It serves as a strategic vehicle for facilitating mutual understanding and value-based information exchange from constructive African populist positions to contemporary global ethical standards and vise versa. Aspiring to become a global intelligence framework for promoting human and infrastructural development in African and Diaspora communities, the organization is powered by people from the grassroots level who are dedicated to fostering improvement in the quality of life and working as partners on issues related to Africa, the African Diaspora, and beyond. Our organization members and partners are individuals from a variety of cultural, professional, academic, and religious backgrounds, organizations, private and public institutions who are stakeholders in various scholastic and professional disciplines of human and societal developments. We are actively involved in a variety of development projects in several communities around the world. Some of our ongoing projects are African Cultural Exchange (ACE) programs for children and adults, panel discussions on health, environment, youth, women issues, economic, workshops and creating a worldwide directory of African programs. Our activities also include infrastructure and structural analysis on health, environment, economic wellbeing, and education improvement in African countries, and culturally diverse communities.

 

 

Our Goal

 

The goal of our organization is to improve the conditions of health, education, environment, and economic opportuities. Our plan is to continue to research, generate, and facilitate outstanding information that inspires new ideas and create new strategies for strengthening the network of African middle class societies by matching standards and coordinating consensus on social and economic development across cultural and international boundaries. We intend to establish instutues where this research will be taking place.

 

 

Our Beliefs
We believe that technology makes it possible to organize research, find value, produce, and distribute content cheaper and more efficiently on a global basis.

 

We believe that globalization is not a new phenomena, it has been in existence for centuries. This is why we look at it as fundamentally a point of view, a mind set. The truth is that it won't go away, however there is an infinite room for improvement on the terms of demand and supply of resources.

 

 

We believe that the key to understanding this process is the degree of sensitivity and cognizance of cultural asset, knowledge of market needs and people’s wants around the world.

 

 

We believe that value based information is the most important good, and that is it incomplete without adequate communication and strategic coordination for effective implementation.

We believe that all societies are equally endowed with gifts, talent, and resources to benefit the world. We believe that it is the responsibility of the whole world to help each part in realizing its potential as in-exclusive and indispensable benefit for the whole world.

 

Our Vision
We envision well developed and sustainable communities thriving with growing numbers of the middle class as well as upper class population with significant decline in lower class populations everywhere in the world. We envision each African community as well as those in diaspora being at liberty to maintain their own uniquely designed-, prepared-, and organized- ways for means to meet immediate and future sustainable development challenges. We envision an environment where cultures, creeds, classes, entrepreneurs and learners can continuing to develop integrally, peacefully, culturally, economically, politically, socially, and in harmony from within as well as in congruence with world societies at large.

 

 

Our Mission
The mission of our organization is to provide information, communication, and collaboration. We provide individuals and organizations working on human and societal development issues with the practical information, communication, and collaborative tools they need to improve their performance and better serve the society. This includes initiate and coordinate efforts to bridge conflicting cultural polarity, support rapprochement and the fulfillment of common goals and mutual benefits.

 

Our efforts are focused on shifting current paradigms: "from dispute to agreement", "from conflict to resolution," "from confrontation to truce," "from hostility to hospitality," "from ailing to healing," from "poverty to sustainable," "from apathy to empathy" and "from tears to smiles". This is our idea of peace. .

 

 

Our Purpose
Our purpose is to incite, support, and strengthen the growth and network of the African Middle class societies by presenting Africa to the world and the world to Africa with the intention to build new opportunitities and improve existing relationships between African societies and other cultures worldwide.

 

 

Our Activities

Media advocacy and cultural exchange programs are at the center of our operation. The ability to gain insight to relative information and understand cultural values in concurrent social situations provide us with necessary tools required to conduct effective daily activities.

 

 

We organize African cultural exchange framework and collaborative network with the objective of drawing and combining intelligence and wisdom from various indigenous cultures, professional disciplines, and scholastic departments worldwide to develop new strategies for peaceful growth. We believe in the enormous power of economic and social improvement opportunity that lies in reconnecting the ties between African and African Diaspora. We make great effort to explore how to reconnect and improve the inherent cultural asset and we recognize this as a great opportunity for the world to step forward and take on the next frontier of human and societal re-development.

 

 

We hope that AV inspires a new discipline of constructive collaboration in the minds of people, institutions, organizations, especially students and youths across cultural and international boundaries. .

 

 

 

Our Activities includes fultilling contractual obligations and inhouse operation requirements on the followoing:

• Research & Analysis 
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Media Advocacy
• Sustainable Development projects
• Capacity Building
• Multimedia Publication
• Providing Workshops
• Organizing Conferences
• Media and Capacity Development: empowering and training local level 
• Developing and enlisting Student Chapters
• Providing African Cultural Exchange programs for kids and adults
• Developing relationships in nations worldwide
• Enlisting Country Directors and Managers as partners

 

 

Our Services

 

• Research
• Monitoring
• Evaluation
• Analysis
• Multimedia broadcasting
• Event organizing 
• Publication
• Cultural Assets promotion
• Cultural Exchange programs
• Country/stakeholders Performance Analysis
• Country risk analysis
• Cultural sensitivity risk analysis
• Country and Stakeholders capability Assessment
• Collaborative opportunity lead generations
• Comparative Analysis
• Development capability analysis
• Strategies Market Access analysis
• Sector and industry resource mobilization logistics
• Product and services

 

 

Our Objectives

• Establish institutes African cultures and traditions in African and diaspora countries
• Establish African Diaspora Federal Credit Union
• Createa a map of community resources
• Publish journals of development facts, reviews, analysis, and statistics.
• Establish African Views Television
• Establish collaboratve vehicles and bridges between Africa, African Diaspora and other developing world societies at rhe grassroot level.
• Establish a template for success in African communities as development tool.
• Establish AV Media as a unique platform for radio, tv, magazine, and social media
• Syndicate AV Radio programs
• Publish resource directories

 

 

Area of Focus:

• Education
• Economics
• Environment
• Health

 

 

Target Groups:

• Scholars/Students
• Activists
• Professionals
  
• Interns and Volunteers
• Development Beneficiaries
• Cultural development

Affiliates

• AV Board Members
• AV Associates
• AV Subscribers
• Partner Organizations
• Student Groups
• Professional Partner
• Strategists (Change Masters)
• Social Networks
• Associations
• Subscribed institutions
• Stakeholders on African issues
• Private sector companies
• Public sector departments
• Sponsors and Supporters

Country Directors:

African Views country director (AVCD) role and obligation is to establish and manage a country charter on behalf of African Views Organization.

 

AV shall perform the following obligations:

• Provide programs, intelligence, and incentives.

 

AVCD shall perform the following obligations:

• Localize and manage African Views Organization in host country.

 

 

For any questions or indication of interest in African Views programs and activities -Contact: African Views Organization in the US| Phone: (646) 226-0262 | E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

We hope that AV inspires a new discipline of constructive collaboration in the minds of people, institutions, organizations, especially students and youths across cultural and international boundaries. All our contents are free to responsible users and all contributors are welcome.