African Views Organization

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AFRICAN VIEWS

Information| Communication| Collaboration

 

 

About African Views Organization

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.

 

African Views (AV) framework is foremost a concept for raising awareness as well as an education framework about African consciousness on its needs 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. 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 Africa and countries with significant or minor presence of African Diaspora.

 

Our Goal

The goal of our organization is to continue to forage 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.

 

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 a well developed African middle class and sustainable communities in Africa, as well as in Diaspora -- organized and equipped to meet immediate and future socio-economic challenges, and continuing to develop integrally, peacefully, culturally, economically, politically, socially, and in harmony from within as well as in congruence with the society at large.

 

Our Mission
African Views (AV) mission is to provide information, initiate and coordinate efforts to bridge conflicting cultural polarity, support rapprochement and the fulfillment of common goals and mutual benefits.

 

Our Purpose
Our purpose is to incite, support, and strengthen the growth and network of the African Middle class societies.

 

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.

 

Our Activities:

• Research & Analysis
• Media Advocacy
• Multimedia Publication
• Providing Workshops
• Media and Capacity Development: empowering and training local level journalists
• 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

• Multimedia broadcasting
• Publication
• Cultural Assets promotion
• Cultural Exchange programs
• Country 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

• Capture a wider scope of people of African descent and highlight inherent diversity of individuals, cultures, strengths, creativity.
• Help communities determine where to locate services and how to allocate resources more efficiently.
• Create forums for interpretation of facts and statistics.
• Encourage proposals and development of positive solutions, in theory and in action.
• Promote collaboration between Africa and African Diaspora.
• Promote integrity, accountability and transparency in African communities as development tool.
• Facilitate a fair representation of cultures and societies around the world on AV framework

 

Area of Focus:

• Education
• Economics
• Environment
• Health

 

Target Groups:

• Children
• Women
• Scholars
• Activists
• Professionals
  

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

 

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: av@africanviews.org.

We currently have offices in the United States, Ghana, and Nigeria.