A framework for worldwide information, communication, and collaboration on African affairs.

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The AV Framework

African Views framework is comprised of the following interrelated components on the side Menu Section:

 

Country Profiles:

this section offers two important types of information: qualitative and quantitative analysis. The qualitative part includes basic information about each country. How the country was founded and how the name of the country came about. We also examine the country history as well as its relationship with African Values. Because of the way this section is conceptualized, it will eventually result in the widest scope of African history and connects that history to the current state of affairs in relevant countries.

We attempt to provide other qualitative information on countries record on human right, social circumstances and a list of the country’s NGO working on African issues.

Our quantitative information is based on a host of relative performance indicators that are offered to gauge and compare favorable conditions for human and societal development in all countries. The indicators are made up of vital statistics that reflect components of governance, economics, social and demographic conditions for each country worldwide. There are about 100 indicators on 235 countries and territories. African Views offers its flagship indicator, African Views Index (AVI).

The AVI (African Views Index) ranks each country's capacity to promote human development without prejudice based on race, creed, culture, religion or gender among its people. The index not only reflects how Africans are integrating in every country but also where each nation stands comparatively. African Views indicator uses a factor of 100 current vital statistics from well-established institutions to create a unique index for each country or territory.

 

Discourse and Debates:

this section is a Participatory media component that can be used in several ways. The main purpose is to allow people to share their stories, ideas, news, debates, questions, discussions, education, information, and inspiration with one another on relevant issues in real time. This provides forums for information exchange and allows us to get information directly from the source. We hope to encourage intelligent dialogue about existing issues and effective solutions. We need your help to get to the truth out in the public sphere.

To start a debate, read existing dialogues, or to make a comment -- click on the Discourse and debate section and see details on the top menu. You must be logged in to interact on this website.

 

Research and Reports:

this section is based on the indicators provided in our country profile section. It provides detail information on how the indicators are collected, how they are used, how they are calculated and where we got them. The purpose of the section is to allow for sharing academic thesis and propositions, as well your research and report with the whole world. Many people tend to put their academic thesis away after graduation. We think a lot of knowledge is useful lost that way.

This section provides a great opportunity to share your knowledge with the rest of the world. The research and report section allows you to upload your document to our server and share it for others freely. Lack of sufficient information exchange or inadequate access to information is one of the root problems in developing communities. African Communities desire quality information, however, this information are often difficult to find or unaffordable for most. Research materials and reports on issues that are important for development are priced very high at many organization product facilities.

We expect people who have written extensively along their career part to share good information for the benefit of scholars and seekers who need it around the world. The challenge here is to match your document with the right indicator. Look thoroughly thought the indicators to see which one matches best to your document and your ideas. Note that this section is free. You cannot charge a fee for sharing. If you wish to charge a fee for your upload, please see our Market place.

To upload a document, click on the Research and Report link on the left menu and click on upload new document.  You must be logged in see detail and to interact on this website.

 

Collaborative projects:

this section is a good ware of finding partners for your projects. The concept involves putting your concept or project out there and letting people who can help to achieve your goal find and connect with you. Individuals and businesses of every size can post their projects and connect with others who can help or provide additional support necessary to achieve their goals. This component is encouraging collaboration for small and medium scale development projects.

 

Country Profile Videos:

this section is created for audio-visual knowledge sharing. Some people learn better with visuals. Therefore, Country profile allows you to add educational videos on related issues. We do not encourage sharing entertainment or self-promotional videos in this section or anywhere on the AV framework. The country profile videos are categorized by country and territory.

Videos can be added in various ways: use provided drop down menu option to choose from these options:

Upload directly from your computer to the server
add an existing video from YouTube or Google by merely pasting the video URL

 

Market place:

This component provides opportunities for anyone, especially scholars who want to self-publish, obtain copyrights and have access to a global audience. African Views fair market place support self-publishing, monetizing published materials through the framework and through Amazon affiliate promotions. African Views market place supports promotion of already published materials that are available in the market. The market place also provides opportunities for book reviews.

 

Broadcast Radio:

African Views' radio broadcast is based on airing independent voices of people worldwide. The show is known as ‘The African View’ and is hosted by the international widely acclaimed journalist, Bookie Shonuga. The show features interviews, comments, profiles and discussion with experts on African issues from all profession and academic disciplines; and is produced in collaboration with African Views Organization and Global Media Productions. The Show is committed to presenting well-balanced and unbiased perspectives on African issues and affairs in the world. The shows airs live every Sunday at 1PM Eastern Standard Time. Everyone is welcome to call in to participate. To connect to the show via Skype, please add “AfricanViews” to your account and enable voice communication.

 

Broadcast Television:

African Views broadcast Television features interviews done by African Views and recordings of audio visual and rich content archiving for cultural exchange activities such as conferences, seminar, parades, and other forms of shared experiences that African Views organizes and covers. The section also features archives of the African View talk show host, Bookie Shonuga, on air & internet broadcasts. The topic of discussion covers a variety of issues on social, economic, cultural, political, travel, tourism and current affairs, etc.

 

African Stake Holders’ Performance Reviews: 

this section provides a self-inclusion directory for African issues stakeholders in various fields of society development and sustenance.  Organizations in public, private, and independent sectors can be added to inform the public about what they are doing and allow the public to provide a review and rating about the effectiveness and performance of the organizations. At African Views, we believe that all sectors should be regulated and their activities be made transparent to the public. People should be in control of the kind of service and quality of service available to them.

 This component is useful in many ways. In order to improve overall performance, we believe that independent sectors, along with private and public sectors should be regulated or at least under some publicly controlled oversight. This is why we take this component very seriously. Anyone can submit an organization for review and we intend to capture as much as possible Non Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Groups who are stakeholders on African Issues, and many which are doing marvelous work, but few which are not. People should be at the center of telling what works and what does not. This should also serve as a bellwether and opinion poll for the organization assessment, and ultimately a tool for performance improvement.

 

Movers and Shakers: 

The movers and sharkers section is a realtime communication across several academic listservs from top universitities, government and non governmental organizations and civil society activist around the globe. The topics are largely focuseed on African views on world issues as well as world views on African issues. , but the discussions are not limited

 This This section provides unique insights into concurrent intelligible concepts and activities between academics, activists, scholars, institutions, private sectors and government decision makers. We created this blog with the intention of facilitating crosspollination of fresh ideas from real situations, hypotheses, analyses, essays, and eyewitness news from professional and academic-networks worldwide. The information generated is in real-time and up-to the minute. These are: news before they break; theses before they are submitted, concepts before they are formed, and information from esoteric pockets. Look here for fresh take on current situation, new opportunities, new innovation and new ideas.

Contributors' Blogs: 

This section allows our subscribers to create free dedicatded blogs. Subcribers an have designated web address within the AV framework and easily point people directly to their own blogs. Subcribers who already have wordpress, eblogger, and other forms of  blogs can syncronize or migrate their blogs. We encourage syncronizing rather than full migration at this point.

 

Events Calendar: 

African Views members can post events and let people register for the events through this framework.

 

World News:

This is a current World news feed: a news portal that aggregates news on relevant issues. This section will be overcalled soon with module for African related news from every country.

Social Network:

This is a social network forum for AV members for collaborative and network purposes. AV members can use this network component to interact, chat, send private messages, share videos, pictures etc with whomever they choose. It works like Facebook within AV framework.

 

Team Emai Access:  

African Views Intelligence team members can access thieir AV email on the framework.

 

AV Store:  

African Views Store on Amazon.

 

AV Business Directory:  

This is a directory of socially responsible businesses that caters to the African community, or businesses from African Community that caters to world needs. We encourage businesses to get listed with us -- not only for better exposure, but  to observe public recomendations and also to support what we are doing. This is a good opportunity for businesses without a permanent website or businesses with virtual offices to get a web representation of their businesses. This section will become more important as we continue to develop the African Views economic development programs. This is a fee based listing and it is only $21 for the year to list with us. It is a good what to show your support for African Views organization.

 

AV Org Chart:  

African Views organization chart. This is a list of AV members worldwide.

 

AV Information Directory:  

African Views free listing for non-commercial useful public information.

 

Work With us:  

A list of African Views volunteer and intership, as well as partnership opportunities .

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