The impactful spending of development funds is critical to the future success of developing economies. Unfortunately, initiatives often take place in silos, and are driven by processes that do not take integrative views. Impact Advantage adds value in this environment by developing systemic views to illustrate factors that are critical to the development of holistic, systemically impactful solutions, at strategic, tactical (project design), or operational (project implementation) levels.
Sustainable ICT in rural agriculture and education, SA (2014 to 2017)
- Overview of current applications of ICT as enabler of rural agricultural initiatives, and identification of opportunities for strategic and tactical research interventions.
- Development of a model of the sustainability of ICT interventions in rural connectivity. Cost models, sustainable project processes.
- Development of a model of the sustainability of ICT interventions in rural education. Identification of critical success factors and interpretation within the context of the current business model of delivery through community-based service providers. Outputs include:
- decision models to establish total cost of ownership and multi-criteria technology selection
- Report on the status of ICT in Education in South Africa (National Education Collaboration Trust)
- Development of guidelines for a provincial strategy for integration of teaching, learning, and ICT for the Eastern Cape Department of Education (CSIR, DST).
Poverty Reduction Portfolio Evaluation, Department of Science and Technology, SA (2002, 2005 to 2006)
- Evaluated the logistics component of Department of Science and Technology’s portfolio of poverty alleviation projects.
- Applied Systems Engineering Principles to describe the efficiency of the National Poverty Alleviation System.
- Analysed the growth path of successful township-based survivalist SMMEs, and the role that networks across resource-rich and resource-poor environments played in their development.
