This account of our partner organisation, Fantsuam Foundation (FF), is to help the newcomer understand how FF's various activities have come about, how they fit together, and where Dadamac fits in.

Dadamac Foundation (in the UK) supports the work of Fantsum Foundation in various ways.

Dadamac Limited connects with Fantsuam Foundation whenever such collaboration would be win-win. One of the benefits of working with the local community via Fantsuam Foundation is that rewards for participation can easily be made on a community level - via gifts to the Knowledge Resource Centre, or donations to a clinic or feeding programme etc - rather than trying to reward individuals.

Dadamac Open Knowledge - this approach means that many Dadamac - Fantsuam Foundation initiatives are knowledge exchanges which are win-wins for all concerned.

The Dadamacademy is the education and research side of Dadamac - a place to  think about what we are doing and what we have learned, and to make learning opportunities available to others. It is typically Dadamac - big vision plus small practical steps bringing it to reality.  It is an emerging online system for research and learning.

Dadamacademy - based on practice

Various emergent networks and online structures of Dadamac are gradually creating the Dadamacademy. Its development is informed by our practical work in Africa and on the Internet, and by our various integrated initiatives related to education and to development. The Dadamacademy is very practical - its areas of expertise are built up through the need to know, and its knowledge is based on asking questions, trying things out, and reflecting on what happens  - both as it happens and afterwards.

Knowledge and learning

The Dadamacademy exists to create and share knowledge and to support independent learning through the Internet. There is no financial cost in being a Dadamacademy student (other than the cost of going online) nor is there any financial reward for teaching (but there are huge intangible rewards).  In the Dadmacademy people are likely to be found repeatedly swapping roles - sometimes learning and sometimes teaching.

Without the Internet - nothing

Dadamacademy is part of Dadamac, and Dadamac could not have come into being without the Internet. For Dadamac the Internet is not an addition to an existing organisational structure. It is our "sine qua non" - the essential condition; the thing that is absolutely necessary. That reality informs the development of the Dadamacademy