Mentoring

Mentoring provides Cameroonians in the diaspora the opportunity to contribute to the development of their country by fighting  poverty, while creating jobs.

According to Wikipedia,  “Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development;mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience”
This can also be done using free technology (video) available now. This was not possible just a few years ago.
So who can become a Mentor with 237Spaces?

  1. Information technology professionals: We encourage IT professionals to mentor young web programmers in Cameroon and to outsource some of their mundane coding tasks for their projects. This will give the young programmer in Cameroon the opportunity to understand how to develop a large project. The Mentor (based in Europe or the USA) may actually end up setting up a consulting business, with most of the programmers based in the USA.
  2. Lawyers: We encourage lawyers based in the USA and Europe to use the talent (law faculty graduates form Buea and Yaounde) to do case law research for them, patent and copyright research, and many other time-consuming tasks that you don’t have to do personally. Smart lawyers in the USA are already using these services to cut down their weekly work hours from 80 to less than 40.
  3. Architects and industrial designers: You can outsource your AUtoCARD design projects to Cameroon now. We have a German-trained AUTOCARD expert ready to guide you.
  4. Doctors and Dentists: We understand that you may not be able to outsource your bedside patient encounters, but we can help you outsource your billing, transcription and many other backoffice services to Cameroon now.
  5. Journalists: Newspapers are going out of Business in the USA everyday. Now is the best time to think about using well-trained graduates in Cameroon to develop content for you.
  6. Anyone in Academics: So you have been thinking about writing a book, but don’t have the time to do it? Let graduates in Cameroon do the research for you. You do the editing, publish the book as first author and then include the guys in Cameroon as contributors. This is a win-win situation. Everyone will come out proud. You will be a proud book author, and the guy in Cameroon will be a proud book chapter contributor.
  7. All Small Business Owners: You can outsource most backoffice functions to Cameroon and save a lot of money, while growing your business. You can outsource billing and invoicing, market competition research, marketing, customer email follow up etc. This will save you time to do what you do best, serve more customers, grow your business and work less hours! Your family will appreciate it.


So how can one do this?
This can be done by you giving very detailed instructions to your party in Cameroon, just like you will train any employee in your office. There are a lot of  free resources now available for live or recorded web-based video demonstration. We encourage you to check these out. Here are some of them

  1. www.Procaster.com this site allows you do live video demonstrations of what you are currently doing on your computer. It’s free
  2. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp Camtasia has a 30-day free product that you can use to record demonstrations of what you are doing online.
  3. http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/videocall/ – Free Skype video calls
  4. http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/sendfiles/ – Use this service to send large files over the internet to your party in Cameroon
  5. Google email video chat: http://mail.google.com/videochat?hl=en


So what does 237Spaces provide?
We help you with recruiting talent, set up the computers with internet access and help with the training.


So howmuch will it cost me?
Nothing, if you just decide to be one of our mentors. However, if you decide to recruit one of our graduates, then you will have to pay them a salary/wage and also contribute toward TechDevSpace’s  training, equipment and administrative costs.


So howmuch time do I have to commit to mentoring?
As little as one hour per week, or depending on the complexicity of your project.

Use the form below to contact us, if you want to become a Mentor.
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