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EMPOWERING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
EMPOWERING HEALTH CARE
EMPOWERINGOPPORTUNITY
EMPOWERINGJOBS
A SKILLS TRANSFER MODEL TO EMPOWER THE PEOPLE

2.  Empowering people in rural Africa by transferring skills to them that enable them
to win programs that they then control and administer thereby ensuring that the
value stays with them.
 In the centre, iEmpowerment provides a technology platform to distribute
educational and health care content, aid in skills development, teach people how
to be entrepreneurial, enable mentorship collect data and extend health care
 People learn how to write proposals to get support for community programs, to
distribute the educational and health care information, do field based data
collection, become entrepreneurial and empower others.
iEmpowerment - OPPORTUNITY
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General Education
Health care Information
Skills development
Accreditation
Social Networking
Data Collection
Technology Platform
SERVICE SOLUTION FOR EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE

3. IEmpowerment and Local Initiative Ensure Success.
iEmpowerment - Background
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 IEmpowerment’s CEO, Pat Montani, M.S.M., previously founded Bicycles for Humanity
which has delivered over 150,000 bicycles, to eleven countries, in sub-Saharan Africa
and trained technicians to maintain the Bicycles. Built on this base, local communities
have built self-sustained, local businesses maintaining and selling bicycles.
 Value of bicycles went to the people
 Value of training went to the people
 Opportunity went to the people
 Sustainable business built by the people
 Entrepreneurialism flourished, expanding opportunity

4. B4H® developed a sustainable Business Model:
Bikes, collected in developed world, are delivered in containers.
Local labour turns the containers into bike shops
Local technicians are trained to maintain the bicycles.
The bikes are given away or sold to raise the money to enable
the bike shop to stock spares and maintain the bikes.
This program has been successful for over 12 years. Multiple,
sustainable, local bicycle businesses have been started with
tremendous benefits to the local economy
IEmpowerment Proof of Concept
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IEmpowerment has proven, in Karamoja, Uganda, that a
technology platform and local initiative leads to success
Proof of concept was iEmpowerment delivering the front end
of iEmpowerment’s technology platform to Karamoja, and
Having local technicians install the technology and train others
to use the technology.
Locals using the technology in the field
Technology now spreading virally within technical colleges,
universities, hospitals, and health care training
iEmpowerment’s approach has been validated and is exponential

5. FIELD DELIVERY of EDUCATION
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Projector
- View skills development Content on Computer, one on one
- Use Projector to teach audiences
- Use tablets for multiple self learning
ANDROID
Tablets
WiFi
No internet requirement
Note:
All IEmpowerment provided content runs on standard
components: (PCs, Projectors, tablets, wifi router.)
These are not supplied by iEmpowerment
Skills Empowerment Centre is a registered trademark of iEmpowerment
Education
delivered on USB

6. APPLICATIONS
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Apps on same USB
As Education
Data Collection:
- Health Data
- Agriculture management
-Education tracking
Data collected
in the field;
Future Applications
Bluetooth
Medical
Devices
Merged Data
Access
Secure
When internet available
(low speed)

7. SEC - Benefits to Communities
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General Education and Skills development – Educate the Community at Large
 General education for children thru advanced grades
 Agriculture education
 Job and business skills
 Health care education
 Skills for employment
Community Health Care Workers
 Educated with health care content
 Use health care application in the field
 Record health issues
 Collect health census data necessary to:
 Enable greater community health care worker effectiveness
 Make data available to health care professionals
o Data availability will encourage doctors to come to the community
o Professionals will identify problems and prescribe treatments from the data
o Research on data to identify causative factors
 Continuously augment patients’ information
 Use Bluetooth enabled medical devices in the field
Help Create 1 million new Health Care Workers
Educators
 Teach using the content
 Track Educational progress (using supplied application)
Education leads to opportunity
Agriculture
 Content supplies agricultural information
 Application to track agricultural data to form best practices.
Improved yields help feed the community
Fuel Entrepreneurialism
Education and applications enable creative people to generate wealth

8.  On-line Education (requires internet access)
 Student tracking
 Testing
 Feedback
 Accreditation
 Entrepreneur Course, students tested and accredited
 Courses will continue to be added
 IEmpowerment Discussion Forum
 Successes, questions, ideas
 mentoring
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Rotaractors Accredited – iEmpowerment Entrepreneurs

9.  Rotaractors in Africa
 Raise funding for SECs in their community
 Skill trained by iEmpowerment
 Distribute iEmpowerment memory sticks
 Pass iEmpowerment Digital Media Content Course
 Install and use technology
 Train users in the community
 Rotary in the developed world
 Mentor Rotaractors in Africa
 Add course content to iEmpowerment University.
FOCUS – ROTARY AND ROTARACTORS
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THE POWER OF ROTARY.

10.  No Cost – use the talent of Rotarians to add value
 Skills Development
 Courses, memos, white papers
 Exams, quizzes and accreditation
 Examples: health care, agricultural practices, accounting and cash flow, setting up a
business, payment and collections methods, etc…………….
 Use iEmpowerment Mentor Platform to:
 Mentor
 Answer questions
 Provide advice
 Set up sub groups for specific subjects or projects
 Lead the discussion group
 Guide the projects
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SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF ROTARIANS GEOMETRICALLY
A PLATFORM FOR ROTARY

11.  In Several African countries
 Technical colleges
 Universities
 Health care workers and training facilities
 Rotary Clubs North America
 Adding curriculum
 Mentoring
 Rotary Clubs in Africa
 Pursuing projects using iEmpowerment platform
 Raising money, training others
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS
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General Education
Health care Information
Skills development
Accreditation
Social Networking
Data Collection
Technology Platform

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Contact:
Pat Montani
pat@iempowerment.org
+1 (604) 902-3452
Contact:
Monty Richardson
monty@iempowerment.org
+1 (705) 888-2411
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EMPOWERING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
EMPOWERING HEALTH CARE
EMPOWERINGOPPORTUNITY
EMPOWERINGJOBS
THE EXPERIENCE TO EMPOWER
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