Dadamac

Collaboration, Education, Livelihoods and Development in a Changing World

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You and Us

Thanks for clicking this link. Your easiest next step is to simply e-mail me,  pamela.mclean@dadamac.net , to explain who you are and to start exploring our overlapping interests.

We connect with people in many different ways. You may want to connect with our work on a commercial basis through Dadamac Limited, or with our voluntary work and social programs through Dadamac Foundation, or you may find that we can collaborate simply because it is mutually beneficial and we are all learning something useful in the process - Dadamac Open Knowledge.

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Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited - the Connection

Submitted by dadamac on 11 August 2009 - 7:38pm

We have been asked to explain the relationship between Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited. It is causing some confusion for people who think it must be like the relationship between, for instance, Ford and the Ford Foundation or Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (i.e step one: become a great commercial success; step two: share the resulting financial wealth through philanthropy). Dadamac is very different. We didn't start on the commercial side and then create the foundation. We started with our voluntary work and are now at the start of building our commercial operation (Dadamac Limited). We don't have financial wealth; our wealth is harder to quantify. We have a considerable amount of social capital and a wealth of knowledge and information, built up through years of voluntary work.

The various faces of Dadamac

We are creating an online presence under one brand name – Dadamac – which brings together

Dadamac Limited

Dadamac Limited – Knowledge Brokers (UK registered company number 05459442)

What we do

We introduce people to each other - especially UK-Africa - and then we help them work together effectively. We also share our knowledge of what works on the ground and of how to collaborate at a distance.

John Dada  and Pamela McLean have been doing this kind of work for many years. This has given them tremendous experience of cross-cultural collaboration - both Face to Face and at a distance - especially where the usual UK communication channels of phones and Internet are not normally easily available.

Now, through Dadamac Limited you can access their knowledge and networks, and you can use their structures and systems. You can work with us from the UK, or join us in Nigeria.