The Community Portal (The Beehive)

One Global Economy works with partners to provide communities and individuals with the tools they need to maximize the potential of technology to facilitate the economic livelihood of the poor. To see an example of a community portal, you can visit the Durban Beehive or the Jordan Beehive, One Global Economy's flagship international sites.

Our programs meet three strategic principles:

1. Livelihood & Income Generation:
Linking individuals to economic opportunities is the developmental challenge of the age. The Community Portal acts as a conduit of local employment opportunities to residents, in addition to equipping local entrepreneurs with contextualized and global information and best practices on micro-enterprises development and finance. One Global Economy will use Asset Mapping & Asset Building methodologies in local communities as tools for economic development.

2. Capacity Building of NGOs:
While community-based Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) provide the bulk of goods and services to poor communities, they tend to be organizationally 'threadbare'. Many NGOs lack the resources to plan beyond the particular project they are engaged in at any given moment in time.

One Global Economy focuses on building the capacity of community-based NGO's through its NGO-World portal. The portal will make available One Global Economy's vast experience in strategic and business planning, design and implementation of community development projects, as well as alternative, asset-based methodologies for assessing target communities to NGOs around the world.

3. Private Sector Participation:
One Global economy believes that community development is a social contract among Government, the Private and NGO sectors, as well as community residents themselves. Towards that goal, the community portal will enhance the participation of the local private sector in community development, through advertising employment opportunities on the portal, participating in asset-mapping initiatives, and implementing 'social responsibility' development projects.