Dadamac Limited
Dadamac Limited – Knowledge Brokers (UK registered company number 5459442)
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.
Long term, medium term or very short term
We can work with you long term, medium term or short term in a variety of ways. At one extreme we can collaborate on your projects from their earliest stages, support you through their implementation, and give continuing feedback afterwards. At the other extreme you can simply pick our brains for a single session to discover how our proven strategies could be helpful in your particular situation. Our work is tailored to individual needs, so contact us to find out how we might help you. Pamela is based in London so if you are in the UK meetings are easy to arrange.
What we know and how we work
For years we have been overcoming the limitations of poor communcation infrastructure linking UK and rural Nigeria. When there was no Internet outside of the main cities, and there were virtually no phones in rural areas, we were already managing to communicate and collaborate. We have years of experience of developing creative strategies to push maximimum information back and forth.
In recent years, thanks to Zittnet, we have been able to have weekly Dadamac UK-Nigeria team meetings online , so we now have excellent ongoing communication for all our projects. However we still reach out beyond the Internet in the ways we have always done, using formal and informal local communication networks.
Right into the heart of things
These examples of informal communication strategies will give you an idea of how working with Dadamac gets you into the heart of African rural life:
- Communicating with people in the rural areas, from the UK, via a fruit and vegetable wholesaler in the city who had a state-wide network of people supplying produce from the rural areas to the city.
- Repeatedy hiring the local town crier in order to announce a series of local meetings.
- Providing a travelling satellite phone service over a wide rural area.
- Asking religious leaders to include announcements on our behalf at church and mosque meetings.
- Sending out a motor cycyle courier, for two days, to deliver invitations to a re-union, because there was no reliable postal service (and no phones)
- Delivering an urgent email from the UK to a rural location by asking the cyber cafe manager to print it out and take it to the nearest motor-park, where he could ask a bus-driver to carry it to its final destination.
- Getting information from a wide rural area through micro-credit field officers when they go out to collect payments from their clients.
- Asking local video cameramen to attend meetings in rural Nigeria and record them, so the people in UK could get full and accurate impressions of what happened.
Dadamac is different
Dadamac offers a unique socio-technical network. It is built on an unusual mixture of practical implementation and analytical thought about trends, strategies, successes and failures. It is also a community, which is fun and welcoming to work with.
Dadamac is different. Contact us to discover how we can help you.
