REEDISA

We are a team of Africans of all shapes, sizes and colours that have travelled a bumpy, living lab and action-learning road from being technologists to becoming social-enterprise developers, from developing and providing (ICT) systems for development to a "development through enterprise" approach with warm-blooded, technology-equipped, human networks. In our world multi-purpose and integration are important ingredients for sustainability - which means that service delivery, in rural areas specifically, should cater for economies of "scope" and not economies of "scale". This view has the added benefit that it provides for a wide range of services over the same cost structures. Our networks are mostly deployed in the contexts of local or traditional authorities and for this reason we have also developed a decision framework for local economic and enterprise development (LEED) planning. This focus is also reflected in our name REEDiSA: Rural Economic and Enterprise Development in Southern..

Primary location: Bronkhorstspruit South Africa