Our Vision is to Break the Cycle of Born-Into Poverty in West Africa through Education, Incubation and Investment.Tumblr (3.0; @openuniversityofwestafrica)http://ouwa.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m373fkM0Yq1r78t5uo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>After lunch @CafeAccra…</p>http://ouwa.org/post/21979487459http://ouwa.org/post/21979487459Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:09:20 -0400<a href="http://www.bingbooster.com/2012/04/heal-the-world-inc-providing-educational-oppurtunties-in-west-africa/">Bing recently featured OUWA on their blog about startups, "BingBooster"! </a>http://ouwa.org/post/21383190263http://ouwa.org/post/21383190263Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:47:20 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tul9SRU31r78t5uo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Without the Inigral app “Schools” on Facebook, our students would have lacked the digital water cooler that has helped them get to know one another across borders of nation, state, tribe and religion. Thanks, Michael Staton, co-founder, Inigral!</p>http://ouwa.org/post/20322157984http://ouwa.org/post/20322157984Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:55:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tta5iYjy1r78t5uo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Pearson’s free LMS, OpenClass, is a great platform to start a university on. We have been excited to partner with them in finding technological solutions to delivering higher ed in West Africa. Thanks, Scot Chadwick, GM of OpenClass! </p>http://ouwa.org/post/20320315280http://ouwa.org/post/20320315280Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:27:41 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tt2gB62b1r78t5uo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Without the generosity of Flat World Knowledge open source textbooks, OUWA’s inaugural semester would have been delayed by months. Thanks, Jeff Shelstad, CEO of Flat World! </p>http://ouwa.org/post/20320019577http://ouwa.org/post/20320019577Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:23:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ts2loq5t1r78t5uo1_r2_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OUWA is grateful for our partnership with the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and School of Landscape Architecture for their contributions to helping us develop a campus built from local materials, with modern technological rigor. Thanks, Professor Joe Dahmen! </p>http://ouwa.org/post/20318657626http://ouwa.org/post/20318657626Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:01:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tr9dedut1r78t5uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Planning the location of our first bit of physical infrastructure; dubbed @CafeAccra, with a group of students. Thanks Bello, Ibrahimovic & Victor!</p>http://ouwa.org/post/20317547047http://ouwa.org/post/20317547047Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:44:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m12l2e8SfQ1r78t5uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A sample of the amazing work done by UBC students during their design studio that was focused around creating amazing concepts for the OUWA campus. </p>http://ouwa.org/post/19502498382http://ouwa.org/post/19502498382Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:35:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ztwu4wqd1r78t5uo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Google has generously donated products that have secured a steady technological base for OUWA. We are also excited to be offering an IT course taught by the head of research at Google, Peter Norvig, via Udacity @CafeAccra. </p>http://ouwa.org/post/19408814683http://ouwa.org/post/19408814683Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:53:00 -0400<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33575965?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="290" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://ouwa.org/post/15246575172http://ouwa.org/post/15246575172Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:48:00 -0500