Useful Visitors
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The document discusses how travelers can donate skills and knowledge to organizations in Africa through a website called UsefulVisitors. It notes that a large percentage of professionals trained in Africa work overseas due to skills gaps. UsefulVisitors would allow travelers to offer short term assistance to local charities, schools, and businesses by leveraging API services. The website aims to launch in select African countries in order to prove the concept and gain critical mass.
Useful Visitors
- 1. Doing good while travelling
- 2. Huge Skills Gap 35% ODA in Africa spent on ex-pat professionals 75% of doctors in Mozambique work overseas Ethiopia lost 75% of its skilled workforce from 80 - 91 > 40% high-level African managers/professionals reside abroad
- 4. Meet Femi
- 5. International Destination whilst Nigeria has great potential and attracted over 1 million tourists in 2006, virtually all were business travellers or from the Nigerian diaspora visiting friends and relatives
- 6. Introducing www.uvisitor.org UsefulVisitors allows travellers to donate skills & knowledge to local charities, schools & businesses in short amounts of time
- 7. Tech Vision Leverage API-based svcs (Dopplr, LinkedIn) Traveler enquiries sent to NGOs via SMS Automated follow-up for post-visit feedback Advanced search, browse, social media SEO Mobile data entry/edit for NGOs Localize into other languages
- 8. Sustainability User pays: subscription, per-enquiry (SMS) Corporate sponsorship / underwriting Private-label portals for corps, orgs Sub-brands: UsefulLunches, UsefulDoctors Voluntary donations
- 9. Go-to-Market Focus: 1-3 countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, S. Africa, Kenya) Tap existing resources to populate NGO database (Technoserve, Ashoka, Sangonet) Partner with 2-3 corps / sites to get visitors (McKinsey, Accenture, Dopplr, Expedia) PR: blogs, press, diaspora networks (SANSA)
- 10. Challenges Critical mass (NGOs, visitors) Quality control Scaling to other territories Risk & security
- 11. Phase 1: Prove Concept Feb 09: Beta site with 1.0 functionality Mar 09: Recruit partner(s), select territory(ies) based on partner interest April 09: Guerilla campaign targeted at travellers (blogs, FB groups, Dopplr) Collect/synthesize feedback for Phase 2
- 12. Use Cases consultant reviews a business plan or a business idea non-profit expert reviews a funding application non-profit expert give fund-raising advice businessman lecturing; teacher teaches class native speaker website, brochure geek troubleshooting, creating site, teaching artists performing in care homes, orphanages chef teaching local chefs business executive coaching on presentation skills
- 13. 油
- 14. No Short-term Opps For Travellers Global Vision International: 2 - 20 weeks African Impact: 1 - 3 months Madventurer: 2 - 6 weeks Volunteers for Peace: 2-3 weeks Global Volunteers: 3 weeks Cross Cultural Solutions: 3 weeks Operation Crossroads Africa: 6 weeks
- 15. 油
- 16. Meet The Team Femi Longe: Africa++, Young Foundation Chris Heuer: Entrepreneur, Blogger Diana Hughes Web Design, Multimedia Lecturer Jon Worth: Web design, professional training James Day: Project Manager Rags Gupta: Brightcove, Mocospace, 8tracks Jerzy Celichowski: NGO management Bosun Tijani: Management/IT consultant Rodrigo Zuniga: Designer, Multimedia Paul Massey: Legal Zanna Rodrigues: CSR Consulting (sponsorships) Noel Hatch: Consulting Tim Diggins: Web developer Tom Ten Thij: Web developer
- 17. Doing good while travelling
Editor's Notes
- UsefulVisitors aims at solving two problems at once