CURRENT MISSION

Bring benefit of mobile apps to the village in Sub-Saharan Africa
Also getting out home based elearning to women and girls and through them their families. Worked twenty years in Uganda and now helping my wife to start up something in of Tanzania see uconnect.org.

ABOUT ME

Founder-Director Mobile Monday Kampala, Daniel Stern is interested in improving healthcare, especially of mother and child, empowerment of farmers, and enlightenment of students, and to foster inclusivity at the village level through mobile services. His Uconnect Schools Project team continue to distribute digital repositories to schools, including Khan Academy, CH12 science and maths textbooks and offline Wikipedia rachel.worldpossible.org.On the Board of Directors for the innovation hub Hive Colab, of which he is Co-founder with Jon Gosier hivecolab.org, ICTAU (ICT Association Uganda), Projects Worth Funding http://pwf.me/, and Extensia extensia-ltd.com, co-founder BICU (Business Innovation Consortium Uganda. Enjoy working to support mentoring of software developers, entrepreneurs and start-ups. National Rep for Healthcare Information for all HIFA2015.org. On Advisory Committee for Online Educa Berlin online-educa.com/ and eLearning Africa elearning-africa.com, National Expert World Summit Award, Co-founder UIXP (Uganda Internet Exchange Point). Enjoys writing blogs and articles on the power of tech for improving communications. Breeding local variety chickens to improve their characteristics and immunity to disease keeps him earthed.

PHILOSOPHY

Prosper thy neighbour, seek first the needs of others and the rest will follow, i.e. your needs will be taken care of.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My wife and I regularly offer guest rooms at our home in Kyambogo, Kampala, Uganda, and I look forward to meeting new friends though couch surfing during my many travels.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
We often up remaining in contact with our guests and hosts. One of our hosts in Geneva came to live with us in Uganda and started a project in Rwanda. A Chinese girl travelling on her own ended up staying for month with us and we the same for a couple of young Japanese who were cycling the world. We have had mostly good experiences in staying with others and receiving guests.

Son, Isaac, is the one who turned me on to couch surfing, having met his companion and many friends that way.

Interests

I am passionate about the prospects for improving the lives of the people in rural areas of the developing world through mobile applications and elearning made affordable to the less well off.

• writing
• singing
• running
• technology
• surfing
• skiing
• business
• communications
• teaching
• mathematics
• science
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

I like Tarkovsky films , I like Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Dylan, Hendrix, Beethoven and Brahms.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was on Mount Etna when it began to erupt, was close to the erupting crater, a strong wind blowing the lava explosions away from us, when the wind changed and we had to run for our lives.

Teach, Learn, Share

At the moment I'm doing eLearning and mLearning, distributing digital repositories to girls centers and also in homes in Tanzania by sneakernet, rachel.worldpossible.org, also encourage drop outs, see our last MoMo on enabling ecosystems momokla.ug, or read my last article on Moving toward a mobile money revolution dispatch.ug

What I Can Share with Hosts

I enjoy cooking a good meals and talking about life experiences with hosts.
I have had some of my hosts come and visit me in East Africa.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, England, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, United States

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