Selected projects 2002 - 2004

Selected projects supporting International Business Collaboration from 2002 until 2004

Hoffmann&Reif focuses on knowledge building and enabling projects in the South and the North. Below is an overview on a couple of projects we have been involved in between 2002 and 2004.

Title	Improvement of health-care services through efficient ICT based education
Duration	January 2004
Location	Abuja, Nigeria

Project Objectives
to perform a feasibility analysis for human resources development in the Nigerian health sector; to develop a stakeholder and sustainability model; to design project-monitoring instruments; to match a project concept with an existing comprehensive requirement set of the World Bank; to establish a network of decision makers from public and private sector institutions and to define success indicators for the tendering process according to a logical framework.

Scope and Results
Project feasibility study and project concept; strategy for ICT based education; elaborated project proposal; syllabus for building health-care capacities

Title	Setting up web-based environmental information system
Duration	March 2002 until May 2003
Location	Delhi and Auroville, India

Project Objectives
to conceptualize and implement a workshop series for setting up environmental information portals; three workshops for decision makers in human resources management and a workshop for environmental engineers covering the following four topics: 1. Portal technology and website content management for training institutions; 2. Training on online authoring for State Pollution Control Boards and municipalities; 3. Advanced content management for training institutions; 4. Rapid implementation of Urban Environmental Information Systems

Scope and Results
syllabus for environmental information managers, action oriented workshops, rapid implementation methodology for environmental information systems, environmental information portals produced on-side and handed over to the workshop participants

Title	Improving environmental education through ICT based training services
Client	InWEnt, Capacity Building International
Duration	12/1999 until 10/2003
Location	Gaborone/Botswana, Makokola/Malawi, Maputo/Mozambique, Windhoek/Namibia, Durban/South Africa, Lusaka/Zambia, Harare/Zimbabwe

Project Objectives
to perform strategic consultancy for the development of sustainable Internet based services in the Southern African Development Community, SADC; to conceptualize a virtual training institution in the SADC for training on environmental management and mining; to design and implement a workshop series for mining engineering faculties of a regional university network: 1. eLearning needs assessment; 2. Planning of eLearning projects; 3. Instructional design and editing workshop; 4. Organisational setup for eLearning; 5. Sustainability strategy for Internet based trainings; 6. Training product marketing; 7. eLearning sales workshop

Scope and Results
syllabus for environmental engineering courses, action learning workshops, rapid implementation methodology for eLearning, eLearning portals produced on-side and handed over to the workshop participants; project information portal and collaborative workspaces implemented for Internet based cooperation

Screenshots and Photos

eLearning portal main page

Ipembo Campus main page in Zambia

References/Links, Additional Files

Santren_eLearning.pdf (918KB)

Information about services, courses and benefits

Further projects

Conceptualization and implementation of an eLearning platform for technical vocational training in Latvia (Valmiera, December 2002)

Introduction of eLearning concepts for the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Ethiopia. The consultancy for GTZ included a pre-feasibility study, interviews with experts and a workshop in Addis Ababa (Addis Ababa, November 2002).

Consultancy on a content management system for the University of Cologne in Germany. This included the conceptualization, implementation, rollout and change management of a multi-client web site for the University administration (Cologne in December 2002),Template description

Strategic consultancy for the learning service provider CRYSTAL of GTZ. Through a two months blended Symposium - on the Internet and face to face - the needs of project managers were assessed. At the same time new web-based management tools were introduced which helped to foster Internet based training and collaboration within German technical cooperation projects globally (Eschborn, Germany in October 2002)

Conceptualisation and implementation of a multi-client training portal for the Indian Central Pollution Control Board (Delhi in March and September 2002)

Conceptualisation and implementation of a project information portal for a decentralized management team consisting of 19 companies and institutions from the SADC (Johannesburg, Cologne in March 2002), http://www.it-ab.net/

Conceptualisation and implementation of a training portal for the German tele-academy (University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen) targeting training managers, authors, and trainers (Furtwangen / Cologne in February 2002), http://www.tele-ak.fh-furtwangen.de

Conceptualisation and implementation of a decentralized content management application service for the central student advice centre of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne (Cologne in February 2002)

Development of a cross cultural syllabus for business information management and eLearning consultants from Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Namibia, South-Africa and Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam (Johannesburg in December 2001 and Bangkok in April 2002), http://www.hoffmann-reif.com/e3091/e74/e334/index_eng.html