What is the Space for Development service?

Space for Development uniquely combines character development with technology adoption to provide infrastructure and services for development at community level.

Space for Development uses access to space technology to co-ordinate and facilitate development and measure progress regardless of the spatial remoteness of the community.

Space for Development implements projects that provides the infrastructure for sustainable development and enterprise support towards economic self-sufficiency

Process to Economic Self-sustainability

What

Remote community focused development consisting of:

  • Community based spatial plans
  • Community wide personal and enterprise development services
  • Connected communication implementation for e-learning, e-health and other e-services

For Whom

  • Development Agencies
  • Government Initiatives for Social and Economic Development
  • National Department of Education
  • National Department of Health
  • Pro-active Communities

Why

  • Limited breadth and high cost of existing programs
  • Wide scale use of technology and effective technology adoption possible
  • Growing from aid to economic self-sustainability

How

Through access to space technology which is cost effective in:

  • information gathering and management
  • interactive information distribution, and
  • providing remote telecommunications services

Community Development Projects

  • Stage 1: Spatial Analysis

    (Resources, ICT reach, Financial index etc.)

  • Stage 2: Needs Assessment

    Personal, Community and Institutional needs assessment

  • Stage 3: Spatial Development Plan

    Spatial development plan for community and service development

  • Stage 4: Connected Communication

    Establish local communication platform (TV, SMS, Mobile TV, DTTV, Broadband) for education, health and other services

  • Stage 5: Personal Development

    Development, design and facilitation of personal development processes which are contextualised for the community and service

  • Stage 6: Enterprise Development and Community Projects

    Enterprise Development and Community Projects around Indigenous Knowledge Systems in industries such as Tourism, Agriculture, Arts & Culture and related services

  • Stage 7: Ongoing Connected Support

    Interactive support for Personal Development and Enterprise Development and community projects for 5 to 10 years

Projects initiated through direct person to person community contact grows through the use of cost effective technology

Integration and Technology of Development

Using space technology Space for Development accesses and compiles context sensitive spatially referenced information

Space for Development uses that same information to develop and invest in core competencies and personal values in order to increase the economic value creation potential

Then Space for Development supports and enables sustained development through use of an interactive broadcast platform

Contact Space for Development for:

  1. A Needs Assessment
  2. Development Consultation
  3. Personal Development Programs
  4. Enterprise Development
  5. Community Projects, and a
  6. Cost effective development plan implementation

Contact Information

15 Termo Avenue
Technopark
Stellenbosch
South Africa
7600

Tel: +27 21 300 0061
Fax: +44 709 226 1572
Email: projects@space4dev.com