A Call 2 Action – the dealmaker was a big success! Thanks to the many energetic and committed professionals, deals were closed with professionals from non-profit organizations, knowledge institutes, the corporate …
Be inspired on 10 December and close your own innovative deal that will redesign international development cooperation. In interactive ‘Solution Centres’ established professionals from non-profit organizations, knowledge institutes, the corporate and public sector will present their …
A Call 2 Action is an open movement where people can find each other to work on the transition of “traditional development aid” towards mutually beneficial international cooperation, that is …
VoiceOver 2015 is a network of people from developing countries. With their knowledge and opinions, members provide the essential input for a true global debate on development cooperation. Meet the …
A Call 2 Action – the dealmaker was a big success! Thanks to the many energetic and committed professionals, deals were closed with professionals from non-profit organizations, knowledge institutes, the corporate and public sector that tackled the biggest bottlenecks in dealing with international cooperation. The deals will be implemented in Dutch society in 2012. Vice Versa will follow the implementation online at www.viceversaonline.nl.
CLICK HERE FOR THE CLOSED DEALS
You can watch the livestream here of the A Call 2 Action event of saturday.
Photo’s can be viewed here.
Part 1: Opening (forward to 29 min 30 sec)
Part 2: Interviews (forward to 6 min 40)
Part 3: The Dealmaker (forward to 20 min 30)
Door: Annamara Hamersma (@Anna_Hamersma)
Gerhard Schuil (@GerhardSchuil), director Oikos, focus on Fairtrade
Gerhard Schuil is very busy today at ACall2Action giving an opening speech and being involved in solution centre no. 1: Stimulating Sustainable Consumer Behaviour. “I think that we need to focus on seducing consumers to share information online about fair trade. Only giving information is not enough, people need to be triggered to get something more out of it”. Just thinking out loud, Gerhard adds that people that publish information on fair trade products they use should get points and when reaching a high score get a product for free. “We need a game element in fair trade, something to seduce the consumers.”
Consumers trust other consumers
Gerard says that overall, consumers trust each other and are not likely to go for companies that are greenwashing their work or labels that promote fair trade. “I think in the future, when 25% of the consumers choose for sustainable products and inform others about it, companies will follow them because they are afraid to miss out.”
READ THE KEYNOTE BY GERHARD SCHUIL
Op zoek naar ware liefde.
Samenwerken tussen NGO’s en het bedrijfsleven… hoe doe je dat nou precies? Op deze vraag proberen ze vandaag in Solution Center 4 van A call 2 Action antwoord te vinden. Blijkbaar is praten nog steeds de basis voor elke actie. In deze discussie lijkt het vooral te gaan over de randvoorwaarden voor succesvolle samenwerking, een te zakelijke benadering als je het mij vraagt. Gelukkig zorgt het tegengeluid bij mij voor meer energie en inspiratie: zie samenwerken als de liefde, waarin je op zoek gaat naar gedeelde waarden en gedeelde dromen.
Het gesprek gaat over de instrumenten en tools om goed met elkaar samen te werken. Hoe moet een platform worden ingericht en hoe moet de communicatie verlopen? En welke kennis hebben we nog nodig om de brug tussen het bedrijfsleven en NGOs te overbruggen? Allemaal belangrijke zaken om een succesvol partnership tot stand te brengen. Maar hoe vind je nou je ideale partner, hoe vind je je ambassadeurs en waarom wil je gaan samenwerken. Hoe vind je nou echt de ware liefde…
In de liefde begin je met daten… een fase waarin je aftast hoe de ander in het leven staat, wat je deelt en of je daar geluk door ervaart. Waarin het vooral de energie is die je probeert te voelen en nog niet altijd alles probeert vast te leggen in woorden. Te snel gaan praten over alle voorwaarden kan dodelijk zijn (weet ik uit eigen ervaring). Van deze invalshoek krijg ik energie. Het zoeken en creeren van gedeelde waarden. Samen ergens voor durven gaan en over je eigen grenzen en belangen heenkijken.
Teveel partnerships falen, maar waarom? De oplossingen worden in deze sessie gezocht in de twee richtingen die ik hierboven heb geschetst. Aan de ene kant te weinig kennis en expertise, te weinig ondersteuning, te weinig tools… De andere kant spreekt me echter meer aan en zie ik graag als de basis voor een goede samenwerking: er is te weinig focus op liefde, op gedeelde waarden. Als de energie in de relatie (lees: samenwerking) niet klopt of ontbreekt… heeft het geen zin om bij elkaar te zijn. Laten we daarom beginnen met daten en zien of er echte liefde in het verschiet ligt.
#P4C Thomas van Gaal
Door Wilco van Bokhorst (@WilcovBokhorst)
Today is A Call 2 Action, a vivid event of JongOS where creative youngsters are excited to do development cooperation in a different and innovative way. During the first of three meetings ID-Leaks was born. With the passionate guidance of Tabitha Gerrits, this group discusses development cooperation with criticasters online.
“The money only goes to corrupt dictators! Let Muslims in Ethiopia pray to Allah for their food! All the money does not go to project, but to the organisations themselves or to the fat salaries of directors!” A lot of these arguments are being used to talk in an unnuanced manner about development cooperation. But what is even worse, the sector itself does not responds or responds defensively.
ID-leaks wants to change this! Through our facebook page we keep each other posted on online critique! We respond on their fora with critical questions, by reletivating or by giving answers. ID-Leaks does something what the development organisations do not do: respond and join the discussion with people who think sceptical about development cooperation!
During AC2A Gerhard Shuil, Director of Oikos, said in his speech that one of the structural problems of development cooperation is the lack of trust and the framing of the sector. ID-Leaks wants to change this!
Refreshing? YES! Necessary? Yes! Innovative? Yes! Therefore, vote #ID-leaks @AC2Avote on Twitter now!
Vote results here: http://acall2action.nl/tweetvote/
>> Join ID-Leaks on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/IDleaks/
Vote here for the action group that has worked out the most innovative idea for improvement of international cooperation in 2011.
You can vote by sending a tweet with @AC2AVote and the # of the group that you think should win.
P4P – @AC2Avote #P4P
IDleaks – @AC2Avote #IDleaks
Ruralweb – @AC2Avote #Ruralweb
Peacetalks – @AC2Avote #Peacetalks
P4C – @AC2Avote #P4C
GoodStuff – @AC2Avote #GoodStuff
Be inspired on 10 December and close your own innovative deal that will redesign international development cooperation. In interactive ‘Solution Centres’ established professionals from non-profit organizations, knowledge institutes, the corporate and public sector will present their biggest bottlenecks in dealing with international cooperation. Together we will solve these bottlenecks and close deals to make sure that these solutions will be implemented in Dutch society in 2012.
SEE THE PROGRAM – GET YOUR TICKET FOR THIS EVENT
A Call 2 Action is an open movement where people can find each other to work on the transition of “traditional development aid” towards mutually beneficial international cooperation, that is internalized into all aspects of (global) society and not bound to specific institutions. From all different disciplines and backgrounds, everyone can join!
To achieve this, several action groups have started working on the transition of development aid in January 2011 at the A Call 2 Action kick-off. Each action group has a coach and a digital group on the JongOS website where group members discuss and follow up. Through follow up sessions on May 21st and September 17th, the groups were guided to a successful implementation of their plans. On 10 December we will celebrate this year of action and make sure new deals come up to continue the movement in 2012.
Join us on 10 December and create your own deal. Click here for the program.
For more information, send an email to info@acall2action.nl
VoiceOver 2015 is a network of people from developing countries. With their knowledge and opinions, members provide the essential input for a true global debate on development cooperation. Meet the VoiceOver members and join the discussions on VoiceOver2015.nl!
VoiceOver 2015 members take part in the action teams of A Call 2 Action and participate in the discussions via a livestream connection. The A Call 2 Action – Dealmaker on December 10th will be broadcasted live from 10:00 GMT until 16:00 GMT on. Participating is easy: on Saturday you will find a live connection with the Livestream on http://www.livestream.com/
