HOFFMANN & REIF has been involved in projects for knowledge building for more than 10 years
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 recent projects we have been involved between year 2002 and 2004.
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Improvement of health-care services through efficient ICT based education |
| Duration |
January 2004 |
| Location |
Abuja, Nigeria |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 SADC for training on environmental management and mining; to design implemented a workshop series for mining engineering faculties of a regional university network: 1. eLearning needs assessment; 2. Planning of eLearning projects; 3. Instructional designer editor 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 oriented 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 collaboration |
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Access to the eLearning products and services
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Access to Ipembo Campus in Zambia
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References/Links, Additional Files
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Further project abstracts
- Conceptualization and implementation of an e-learning platform for technical vocational training in Latvia (Valmiera, December 2002)
- Introduction of e-learning concepts for the Ethiopian Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). 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 have been introduced which will help to foster internet based training and collaboration within the global technical cooperation projects of Germany (Eschborn, Germany in October 2002), http://www.crystal-elearning.net
- 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
- Development of a cross cultural syllabus for business information management and e-learning 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
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