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My professional mission is promotion and management of small-scale
innovative development -anywhere in the world. I want to highlight and adopt the
best of traditional and modern life styles, with a cross-cultural approach,
stimulating to interchange of thoughts, customs and tools.
I deal
with culture and environment related problem analysis, innovations, development
of appropriate technology, small-scale solutions, bigger administrative and
organizational tasks and IT-related activities in the educational area. As a
project manager I always listen to local people and investigate traditional
methods before I decide to change. I don’t work for change for change, but for
change for development. Coordination, time- and resource planning and financial
questions are basics. Other technical know-how is often available locally.
I also
write project documentation, applications, plans, reports, evaluations and
translate documents, teaching material, instruction books, manuals and
handbooks, develop courses and seminars as well as arrange meetings for
knowledge exchange and development.
I have a wide experience and a big network of
competent colleagues and friends. That means that I am ready to solve complex
problems in a holistic way, while you continue to focus on your central
business. I can do research, run pilot projects, formulate project ideas and
plans, assist with goal setting, applications, plans for implementation,
financial solutions, writing reports, evaluations, documentation and
teaching/information material, and of course I am ready to be responsible for
implementation of projects as a project leader or coordinator. If it is needed
I can also find very competent colleges for cooperation or forming a work team.
After many years as employed by big
organizations, both in Sweden and abroad, I decided to go virtual as a private
consultant. That means that I offer my service where and when it is most
needed, without any unnecessary bureaucracy and to a cost, that is very
competitive to the salary of employed staff, social costs etc. included. Do you have a goal, but no means of
transport, I can help you to advance. If you don’t know the way, I can find it
out. And if you have got stuck without any goals, maybe I can help you anyway,
to find them. Let us have a talk about what you will gain and what it will cost
to say yes to my assistance. I promise you to be a winner! –Could be understood
in two ways, for in a good cooperation there are no loosers. If you want, we
can create a chain of part goals, and estimated time and price to achieve them,
one by one. No achievement – no payment, that is my job guarantee. And you can
divide the whole project in phases and confirm one phase at the time. That also
makes it easier for you to control your project costs.
Professionally…
Construction work in the small town Buzi, province of Sofala, Mocambique Howard University, Africa Studies, Washington
I have a long experience from both Swedish and
international development and change work, information technology, staff
training, leadership and project management, with a focus on small scale, user
oriented and innovative development. My formal education is focused on
behavioural science, organizational psychology, anthropology, International
Development and Development Cooperation at Masters level. My work languages are
Swedish, English and Portuguese but I have knowledge of some other languages as
well, such as German, French and Scandinavian languages.
I'm the West Sweden
Regional Coordinator of Läromedelsförfattarnas
Förening, the Swedish Association of Authors
of Educational Material, a member of Göteborgs Uppfinnareförening,
Association of Innovators in Gothenburg and cooperate with EkoEffekt @Work
and COWS,
Choice of Wisdom in Sweden. Uppdragshuset,
Commissions House, is my professional home in real world, where we can meet
personally, if I am not on the move or at your place. It is a partially
EU-financed association for specialists, who want to work as independent
consultants, but still need some cooperative management, administration,
networking and support, The professional “family”.
Privately….
Sailing Havsfidra in the West Sweden
archipelago. The countryside of Sweden has an excellent development potential
for “the good life”.
I live an ordinary family life with wife and three
under aged children in a flat in Gothenburg. I have bike, car, boat and lots of
unnecessary things. We are travelling a lot, especially to East Africa, where
my wife was born. Some
questions could be possessed about my lifestyle: Is it organized that way you
want to help others to organize their life? Is it sustainable? Is it built on
recycling, small-scale development and low consumption? Is it decentralized? Is
it built on equality and justice? Is it
ecological? Does it avoid risks and negative consequences, connected to the industrialized
society? Does it offer a good start in life for the children? Is it fair
against others? Is it healthy? Is it a low cost style? Is it productive? Is it
rational? Is it joyful? Does it include a constructive communication in a good
social network? Does it include an initiated view of the global society? Does
it meet new ways to work, which recently has developed in the modern society?
-Or has the life style to be changed? Well, the life project also needs
development goals and plans for implementation, and I am continuously working
on it, to live and work in consequence and harmony. I am trying to avoid over consumption, recycle things and think
about the sustainability in my own life and the children’s future, but it is
hard to be consequent in a modern consumers society. Thinking too much about
fuel consumption for example, would not permit travelling around the world by
air, and that would not permit Development Cooperation between North and South.
Training for voluntary workers
Seminars for Secondary school students about voluntary
work in Mocambique
Seminar about UN-work for secondary school students
Staff development for administrative staff at Ministry
of Education, Sofala, Mocambique
Development seminars for Mozambican teachers and
school leaders
Knowledge exchange arrangements for educational staff
from various parts of Mocambique
Seminars in Development for development staff in
Mocambique
Small scale project development in Mocambique, based
on Peoples Work book (South African)
Evaluation and response to individual project ideas
Import/export/maintenance
Reconditioning and choice of appropriate technology within projects
Solar power in Mozambican rural school building
Training in Internet use for local development
consultants in Mocambique
Courses for leaders in leadership and cooperation
The activity laboratory-from thoughts to reality
Courses in information technology
Courses in Training management for Ouatar and
Jordanien
Courses in audio-visual technology
Courses in the method Network planning for project administration
Courses in mind development and speed reading for
Swedish Telecoms
Development seminars for writers of teaching material
in Sweden
Establishing a publishing service unit for the
Telecoms training department for the west of Sweden
Turning the Management section at Telecoms training
division to a profitable and progressive unit
Project management of the construction of school
buildings in Mocambique
Local profitable printing of educational material for
Schools in Mocambique
Establishing of a physical information unit with photo
laboratory and a Journal at ministry of Land, Tanzania
Starting up
a journal for the Village forestry information unit at Ministry of Land,
Tanzania (Misitu kwa jamii)
Training aids installation/maintenance/training and
organizational development for Tanzania Telecommunication College, Dar es
Salaam
Planning of a small coffee farm in the south of
Tanzania
Appropriate technology solutions: Washing machine for
areas with interrupted water flow, solar powered water cleaner, low cost
transport…
Export of environment related solutions like oil
refiners, recycling of rubber products, air cleaners, mercury recollection…
Geese farming as a socio-ecological project
Cooperative
Fair Trade, marketing products ecologically
produced by people in the third world and elsewhere, who get a fair salary for
their job
One-to-One
Marketing, connecting producers and consumers in northern and
southern countries
Local Employment and Trade System, an
Internet implementation in Gothenburg for development of social economy
Local
journalism (weekly articles and press photography during a five years period in
the very past)
Learning
during alternate state of conscience (Super Learning/Suggestopedi) CD-thesis
Psychology
Progressive
service management (Journal for organizational development at Telecoms in
Sweden)
Reflections
of the learning style at the Computer centers in Gothenburg (evaluation)
Local urban
development through e-business in Mocambique (Masters thesis)
Between
traditionalism and modernity in Mocambique
Environment
and its destruction, a handbook for environment (translation and transformation
from Spanish) Order
People’s
enemy by Ibsen (W/P and Lay-Out for a Swahili version)
Longing and
frightens (manus for course book in organizational psychology/therapy)
In search
for life beyond horizon (About walking through southern Africa during war)
Course
material in the area information techniques, audio-visual techniques,
leadership&cooperation, training management etc.
Instruction
books
Project
plans
Reports
…
Objective-
and activity chains
Organizing
objectives and activities in a logical order, investigating which one is
depending on the other, makes it is much easier to concentrate on the critical
path throw a project and gain time for the total implementation. This method
was developed for the construction of the first nuclear submarine, and it has
since then been adopted by software producers in planning programs like
Microsoft Project, Mac Project etc. The most important in project management is
to have that kind of thinking in the head, not to use computer, if the projects
are not so big.
Phase by
phase
It happens
that projects fail totally when the cost gets bigger than expected. To avoid
that, and to get more control of the project process, it is recommended to
divide every project in smaller phases in that way that the project can be
functional partially in the end of every stage. An example: Building a house
for the staff at a school could start with the toilettes, continue with kitchen
and half of the whole planned construction and finally be ended up with the
rest of the flats for teachers. With this method you avoid a big complex being
useless without roof for example. I could point out examples.
Splitting
programs to smaller projects
To take one
step after the other is a general way to come to a result, without wasting much
energy, whatever it is. A big program might be very good as an overview of the
general intentions. Splitting up the program into smaller units, it could be
easier to plan finance as well as implementation, and it will be easier to
adjust the program as well.
Management
by walking around
To open all
senses for what is going on and what is motivating people to do what they are
doing in participial investigation and observation is basically an
anthropological approach. By just “walking around” you get information about
things you didn’t have an idea about how to look for them, information that can
be very useful to succeed with projects, especially in cultural complex
situations.
Searching
creative and lateral solutions
Development
projects are often formed for the reason that the standard solutions don’t
function. To leave the standard it is necessary to use creative and lateral
techniques. An example: A drunken man once was found looking for the key to his
home under the lamp in the street. Someone stopped and asked him: For what are
you looking? –My key, he replied. –But where did you drop it? -Over there in
the darkness, he replied, but it is much easier to look for it here.
Productivity in development
tasks is depending very much on creative thinking. You have to feel that you
get genius thoughts all through a project, about how to resolve the problems
and how to go further. Development work is a kind of innovative work, whether
it is about developing a life-style, a social situation, a training system, a
product or a production method.
To assume that it is
possible to do anything is a good start of a project. Too many failures depend
on failing self-trust. But there has to be a big portion of realism involved to
succeed with a project, especially when it comes to the costs. Is it really
worth to implement the idea? Or is there any alternative and cheaper solution
leading to the same result? Why do people involved in a project favour one
special solution? Don’t they know about other solutions or are there any hidden
dogs? -Someone gaining personally on a special solution? Working strictly with
objectives and cost-benefit analysis helps.
Tailored
solutions
There are
no standard situations and standard solutions. Every problem is unique.
Therefore it is recommended to act consequently to this fact. The client has to
be involved in the process leading to the solution, to guarantee that the
solution will suit the actual situation like a tailored suite.
Within
existing structures
A structure
is often visible and invisible. It is not possible just to neglect. It is there
anyhow. That means that you have to map out the existing structures and
navigate inside the structure, like in the archipelago where you have to know
where there are stones to be able to sail.
Connecting
people
When
meeting people in different time and situations that have the same goals,
thoughts and ideas, it could be a good thing just connecting them, and
wonderful thing could happen. That’s communication on a high level.
Listening
and learning
Truth and
facts are a culture centred. That means, that in another culture than your own,
those mental construction that you carry around are not necessary the most
fruitful ones. It is good to listen and try to learn, and not just condemn what
people are telling, even if it sounds crazy. In traditional cultures the truth
is often told through stories with a certain understatement, symbolic or
indirectly. If people have not been accepted to think and say anything freely,
it is expressed in hidden forms. What people think is important for the success
of a project and a long-term life of the results. Recycling of the local truth
could be a good way.
Offering
a sandwich table for choice of development
One method
I have found useful is to spend some time with that organization you are going
to cooperate, just looking for what I think would be my best contribution.
After some time I make a list which contributions to development I think I
could offer. The responsible project owner I offered to priority and chose some
activities that seems to be most interesting and most easy to implement. That way
the owner of the problem does not lose the responsibility for the development
activities.
Change
not only for change
Change
always costs money and efforts, and the consequences of change are seldom
possible to estimate clear. It is better to find out what can be used and done
without big changes. A change should have a long-term perspective and a total
cost calculation. It should also be planted in a situation where there are
sufficient capacity, social security and trust for change.
On equal
terms
It is easy
to buy friends, but they are always bought and not real. When your money has
gone, they are also gone. It is better to gain friendship on equal terms. It
can be done to do things together, to learn from each other’s, to communicate
and to change mutually.
To ask
friends for help is the traditional way of getting things happen. That is the
most efficient way in a traditional society, where laws and rules could be
interpreted in different ways, or just not be followed equal for all. Money
helps sometimes, but given directly to resolve formal problems, that should be
resolved without money, it is not the most sustainable solution of problems,
since it most often demands further input form outside the system, just like
using not renewable energy in the echo system. -Friendship is a better way of
getting things happens. Maintaining friendship is a good investment, as well as
a good way of life.
Taking
advantage of local know-how and specialists is a guarantee for development
activities to be integrated in the local reality. It is recommended to let
co-workers keep their traditional work methods and work organization, when
possible, and focus on the project goals in the process of project management.
What is the most needed contribution from the modern industrialized society, is
often methods for time- and economy planning and delegation of responsibility
in the work, and not only more technical competence. Working together, learning
from each other’s, is the real partnership.
It is not
sufficient to dream and talk about something to get it happen. It must be
realized with hard and dedicated work. Waiting is not accepted as an activity.
The
American philosopher Waldo Emerson says: To genius must always be added two
gifts, the thought and the publication. That means that we need to use our
tools for development to get something to happen, whether it is to structure
ideas and information, communicate our results to others or just act.
Glocal is a combination
of global and local. It is a new perspective of life. Whatever you do, you do
it locally and it has local effects and sometimes also global ones. Throw a
global cooperation it is possible to get things happen locally, that would not
happen without cooperation. Throw a global view you understand your local life
better. The local life-style is something to respect, take care of, develop,
refine and utilize in the glocal concept. It is like diversity in the biology,
it contains the truth and the material to build the future. Even if a large proportion of the economy becomes global,
most people in the future will work, reside and live locally. Thus it is not
only globalisation, which is spoken of. Those who think globally but act
locally have come to be referred to as “glocal” people. I am one of them.
Industrial
and commercial life is now developing in a different direction than before.
Companies, public service departments and even development organizations are
now outsourcing activities to separate companies and individual consultants.
The result is fewer permanent employees and instead, a multiplicity of smaller
firms, subcontractors, more internationally active companies, increased
mobility and more assets in foreign countries (RSV). As an individual
development consultant I join and coop with this development of society. It is
rational, but not so safe of course. The clients are released from the
employers’ responsibilities and I can choose the jobs I think are most
interesting. Commitments for longer periods are still not excluded. It makes
development, transfer of knowledge between different projects and
specialization of personal competence easier. I believe in the increased
flexibility and global cooperation between societies, no longer focused on
fabrication of things, but more on service and where everybody is concerned
about his own productivity. It has some resemblance with the situation in local
pre-industrial societies.
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Africa
Latin America
Asia
Europe
Sweden
elsewhere
development in the third world
rural development
urban development
small scale development
education in the third world
distance learning
computer aided learning
Internet use for development
human resource development
lifestyle questions
environment questions
computer aided planning
trade
one-to-one marketing
appropriate technology
construction
solar energy
wind energy
recycling solutions
innovations
introduction of new technique
anthropological research
pilot studies
investigation and planning
project formulation
project application
financial applications
LFA (Logical Framework Approach) planning
computer aided LFA-planning
computerized Network Planning
phase structuring
implementation
evaluation
project management
local coordination of development activities
and projects
local negotiation
local transport solutions
local solutions for energy production and use
computerized solutions
organizational development
staff development
staff recruitment
organization of PBL (Problem Based Learning)
exchange of experience
training abroad
staff training
on the job training
tailored training
training development staff
documentation
course development
course material development
interactive web presentation
press contacts
initiated presentations on the world wide web
hand books
instruction videos
instruction CD:s
photographic documentation
Agenda 21 planning and activities
one-to-one marketing
export-import service
exchange of environment related technical and
social solutions
cultural interpretation and coordination
resolving conflicts
computerizing in a spoken low-tech culture
functioning telecommunication solutions
analysing local priority structures
mapping out daily life situation, how and why
analysing potential for change
innovation and product development
introduction of new products and methods
working with idée management to fight poverty
surround factor analysis
consequence analysis
organization analysis (six box model etc.)
translation/interpretation (Portuguese,
English, Swedish)
sub-consulting
independent consultancy
project employment
financial resources for consultancy
activities exist
finance has to be planned
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