I'm passionate about building technology to reduce poverty and address the United Nations sustainable development goals. A few years ago I was building a business training app for low-literate populations in India (like financial literacy for street vendors). That unfortunately didn't work out and I came back to France just in time for covid !
Since then I've been actively following people and organisations working in international development, but I often get frustrated that they mostly talk about workshops and policy briefs. What I've always wanted was participating in a community of builders and experimenters, kind of like Indie Hackers but for international development.
So I might as well kickstart that community. I started setting up Development Hackers with forem last week and right now I'm trying to figure out what to do before launching it.
I would love to connect with anyone who's curious about building tech and solving global problems. And if anyone's got tips about kickstarting a forem I'm all ears !
I'm Ella, and I'm a few hours away from you in Bretagne ☺️
I'm in Michael's team at Forem and also excited to hear about your Forem. I can heavily relate to your pain here (got a job with an international development NGO straight out of college but felt the same frustrations and left shortly afterwards to work directly with communities). Your business training app sounds a lot like Paulo Friere's work.
I just joined your Forem - excited to see where this goes !
Happy to hear the message resonates with you too !
We'll build a productive and positive community for people who want to get things done in international development 🙌
I know I met you already on your Forem, but really awesome to have you here. 😀
The mission behind your community sounds amazing and is definitely in line with our values as a company. We're honored to have you build this community on Forem. 🙌
This week is a bit busy for me, but I'm going to reach out to ya here soon and see if we might be able to meet up so that I can give you a general walkthrough of the Forem platform, learn more about your community, and gather any feedback you have for us about your experience thus far.
I'll be in touch in the near future. Until then, hope all is well!
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Hi everyone !
I'm Rayan from Paris, France :)
I'm passionate about building technology to reduce poverty and address the United Nations sustainable development goals. A few years ago I was building a business training app for low-literate populations in India (like financial literacy for street vendors). That unfortunately didn't work out and I came back to France just in time for covid !
Since then I've been actively following people and organisations working in international development, but I often get frustrated that they mostly talk about workshops and policy briefs. What I've always wanted was participating in a community of builders and experimenters, kind of like Indie Hackers but for international development.
So I might as well kickstart that community. I started setting up Development Hackers with forem last week and right now I'm trying to figure out what to do before launching it.
I would love to connect with anyone who's curious about building tech and solving global problems. And if anyone's got tips about kickstarting a forem I'm all ears !
Thanks !
Salut Rayan !
I'm Ella, and I'm a few hours away from you in Bretagne ☺️
I'm in Michael's team at Forem and also excited to hear about your Forem. I can heavily relate to your pain here (got a job with an international development NGO straight out of college but felt the same frustrations and left shortly afterwards to work directly with communities). Your business training app sounds a lot like Paulo Friere's work.
I just joined your Forem - excited to see where this goes !
Salut Ella :)
Happy to hear the message resonates with you too !
We'll build a productive and positive community for people who want to get things done in international development 🙌
This is all so awesome, Rayan!
I know I met you already on your Forem, but really awesome to have you here. 😀
The mission behind your community sounds amazing and is definitely in line with our values as a company. We're honored to have you build this community on Forem. 🙌
This week is a bit busy for me, but I'm going to reach out to ya here soon and see if we might be able to meet up so that I can give you a general walkthrough of the Forem platform, learn more about your community, and gather any feedback you have for us about your experience thus far.
I'll be in touch in the near future. Until then, hope all is well!