We believe young professionals have a duty to community. 85% of Ugandans are rural poor engaged in subsistence agriculture. The IDEAFACTORY through which Rockford Harris Group emerged brainstomed and synthesized the existing resource person gap between urban-rural and between North-South. This divide has been exercabated by the ever increasing digital and wealth divide. But there are opportunities to in this situation.Integrating social enterprenuership with conventional market condition can facilitate development change in a community. Rockford Harris Group has explored this model. Smallholder farmers and the rural poor do not want freebees but they have been conditioned by the externalization tendency by those prescribing solutions to their problems. Government intervention has been politically motivated based on calendar. The rural poor have a local knowledge systems that have been rendered by the new approach to rural development both from NGOs and the government often based on the conditions of the donor and the desire to spend. At Rockford Harris Group we have another approach. We want to be partners to the local community. We want to form a business partnership based on mutual respect. We want to revive the traditional knowledge system on preserving seeds, protecting the environment, management water, soils, the traditional grannery for food stocking and synergizing the power of emerging technologies. The effect in this is that a rural farmer owns and is proud to relate his traditional technology the emering technology if it accessible and affordable.
The globalization process has connected people in a special way. Now young social enterprenuers from all over the world have shown enthusiasm to develop and share knowledge and experiences using virtual platforms. They are going ahead to build their communities through modest but innovative approaches.
This is the reason this platform exists. We have developed the IGCBP-TALK discussion group currently with 700 users around the world. This is a google group that discusses technology, policy and development in a special way. Young professionals like never before are building the linkages between technology, policy with the development process both in their local communities and all around the world.
We believe young professionals have a duty to community. 85% of Ugandans are rural poor engaged in subsistence agriculture. The IDEAFACTORY through which Rockford Harris Group emerged brainstomed and synthesized the existing resource person gap between urban-rural and between North-South. This divide has been exercabated by the ever increasing digital and wealth divide. But there are opportunities to in this situation.Integrating social enterprenuership with conventional market condition can facilitate development change in a community. Rockford Harris Group has explored this model. Smallholder farmers and the rural poor do not want freebees but they have been conditioned by the externalization tendency by those prescribing solutions to their problems. Government intervention has been politically motivated based on calendar. The rural poor have a local knowledge systems that have been rendered by the new approach to rural development both from NGOs and the government often based on the conditions of the donor and the desire to spend. At Rockford Harris Group we have another approach. We want to be partners to the local community. We want to form a business partnership based on mutual respect. We want to revive the traditional knowledge system on preserving seeds, protecting the environment, management water, soils, the traditional grannery for food stocking and synergizing the power of emerging technologies. The effect in this is that a rural farmer owns and is proud to relate his traditional technology the emering technology if it accessible and affordable.
The globalization process has connected people in a special way. Now young social enterprenuers from all over the world have shown enthusiasm to develop and share knowledge and experiences using virtual platforms. They are going ahead to build their communities through modest but innovative approaches.
This is the reason this platform exists. We have developed the IGCBP-TALK discussion group currently with 700 users around the world. This is a google group that discusses technology, policy and development in a special way. Young professionals like never before are building the linkages between technology, policy with the development process both in their local communities and all around the world.