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Marcottage, a new approach to co-development
“Marcottage”
A new approach to co-development putting information and communication technology to the benefit of people, companies, public institutions and non-profit organizations in order to enhance activity creation in Africa
look also on European portal for codevelopment"
Marcottage also known as layering is a mean of plant propagation in which a portion of an aerial stem touches soil and grows roots while still attached to the parent plant and then detaches as an independent plant. Soil is the land of Africa where education is outpacing job creation. Plants represent companies that ought to be rooted in Africa in order to enhance its economic development. Aerial stems are young students or experienced professionals keen on settling in Africa. Those will have better chances of successfully setting up a business if they are attached to an established parent company.
Background
Given structural deficiencies in skilled job creation in Africa, young graduates or experienced professional face difficult challenges when they decide to go back to Africa. X-Afrique has explored means of helping African graduates to create their future activity in connection with established companies and entrepreneurs in Africa.
The “Marcottage concept” was born in 2003 as an answer to these challenges. The birth took place at the University of Communication of Hourtin during a conference on North/South numerical fracture organized by “Africa’nti ”. In this context, the founder of Marcottage envisioned internet as an efficient way to progressively weaving a fabric with million of wires dressed between the two continents rather than a simple bridge building between the North and the South.
The project matured further in 2004 and used the Africa’nti framework to test the idea. Several workshops were organized to sound the interest of companies to recruit African interns who will ultimately help them enter the African market, an entry that would not have been considered otherwise. Marcottage was launched on January 2005 in the Fair of Entrepreneurs in Paris and has collected 10 projects by the end of the fair.
Subsequently Marcottage members were actively promoting the idea and encouraging people to register their projects in an earlier version of the site www.marcottage.fr in order to connect them with the right individuals and/or institutions.
By 9 May, 2006, Marcottage has collected 100 projects and assigned o each three contacts to help their initiators realize their ideas. Through this first year of experimentation, Marcottage built valuable knowledge and developed thorough understanding of mechanisms governing “computer assisted co-development”.
This feedback helped on building “Marcottage 2.0”, the current marketplace dedicated to “co-development” with Africa.
Presentation of Marcottage 2.0. “www.marcottage.org”
“Marcottage 2.0.” is developed on open source softwares , jointly by X-Afrique and AFNET . Inaugurated in 31 March 2007, this market place is equipped with basic functions of a multi-relational network in a fashion that allows project leaders to find by themselves partners they need for accompaniment, development, or financing of their project.
A new approach to co-development putting information and communication technology to the benefit of people, companies, public institutions and non-profit organizations in order to enhance activity creation in Africa
look also on European portal for codevelopment"
Marcottage also known as layering is a mean of plant propagation in which a portion of an aerial stem touches soil and grows roots while still attached to the parent plant and then detaches as an independent plant. Soil is the land of Africa where education is outpacing job creation. Plants represent companies that ought to be rooted in Africa in order to enhance its economic development. Aerial stems are young students or experienced professionals keen on settling in Africa. Those will have better chances of successfully setting up a business if they are attached to an established parent company.
Background
Given structural deficiencies in skilled job creation in Africa, young graduates or experienced professional face difficult challenges when they decide to go back to Africa. X-Afrique has explored means of helping African graduates to create their future activity in connection with established companies and entrepreneurs in Africa.
The “Marcottage concept” was born in 2003 as an answer to these challenges. The birth took place at the University of Communication of Hourtin during a conference on North/South numerical fracture organized by “Africa’nti ”. In this context, the founder of Marcottage envisioned internet as an efficient way to progressively weaving a fabric with million of wires dressed between the two continents rather than a simple bridge building between the North and the South.
The project matured further in 2004 and used the Africa’nti framework to test the idea. Several workshops were organized to sound the interest of companies to recruit African interns who will ultimately help them enter the African market, an entry that would not have been considered otherwise. Marcottage was launched on January 2005 in the Fair of Entrepreneurs in Paris and has collected 10 projects by the end of the fair.
Subsequently Marcottage members were actively promoting the idea and encouraging people to register their projects in an earlier version of the site www.marcottage.fr in order to connect them with the right individuals and/or institutions.
By 9 May, 2006, Marcottage has collected 100 projects and assigned o each three contacts to help their initiators realize their ideas. Through this first year of experimentation, Marcottage built valuable knowledge and developed thorough understanding of mechanisms governing “computer assisted co-development”.
This feedback helped on building “Marcottage 2.0”, the current marketplace dedicated to “co-development” with Africa.
Presentation of Marcottage 2.0. “www.marcottage.org”
“Marcottage 2.0.” is developed on open source softwares , jointly by X-Afrique and AFNET . Inaugurated in 31 March 2007, this market place is equipped with basic functions of a multi-relational network in a fashion that allows project leaders to find by themselves partners they need for accompaniment, development, or financing of their project.