Crash Course to ICT Work in Africa

 
 

Compared to industrialized countries, ICT work in developing countries requires a different set of skills and attitudes. The dynamics of challenges and strengths differ from industrialized countries.

I4D People has more than a decade of experience in ICT work in Sub-Saharan Africa, with installations varying from a few computers at challenging school environments to a 300+ computer network with half a dozen specialized servers.  Our expertise spans all aspects of ICT operations:

  1. Bullet ICT planning, installation, support, and maintenance

  2. Bullet Identifying and evaluating prospective staff, networking between stakeholders

  3. Bullet ICT training and education, human mobility

  4. Bullet ICT procurement, local manufacture, evaluation

  5. Bullet Foresight, proactive planning, life-cycle evaluation, and preventive maintenance

  6. Bullet Power planning and implementation and wired/wireless network planning

  7. Bullet Project management and leadership in Africa in multicultural teams, finding funding mechanisms, networking between African countries

  8. Bullet Human resource management (from small teams to departments to multi-branch companies)

  9. Bullet Identifying ICT opportunities and new markets, conducting feasibility analysis, contextualization of technology and creating relevance

  10. Bullet Life, culture, society, health, education

All our experts are experienced in working in industrialized as well as in developing countries.  We work in an extensive network of ICT and ICT4D professionals in Africa and Europe.