‘Fusion of ICT with Nature, Culture, Spirituality and Development’

Fusion is founded on a grand vision, which goes way beyond just ICT for Development.

Grand Vision

Define and develop a model ICT4D platform as a community-oriented, nature-friendly, sustainable, holistic development engagement.

Grand Mission

Fusion grand mission would be founded on the following three pillars;

• Practice
• Partnership
• Research.

Practice; Fusion believes, practice as the first step of learning, and practice as the first step of delivery, practice as the first step for being a living movement. By keeping community first, and touching their heart beat, and listening to their whispers, and recognizing their needs, Fusion would plan and implement ground level programs and update them as a response to the phenomena of change.

Partnership; Fusion trusts the value of interdependence and sharing, and sense of inter-being in the eco-system development. Mutual respect & values of partnership will be regarded at the highest spirit. On one hand community would be reckoned as a partner (than a recipient), on the other hand donors, academia, state institutions, private sector institutions would be recognized as important resource partners. Partnership would be envisaged to build across communities, cultures, boarders, nations and continents, thus thinking in local, national and global perspective.

Research; Fusion would update its vision and development paradigms deriving information from the applied research, carried out to evaluate program impact, add value to community wisdom and build communication bridges between multiple knowledge pools. The research would envisage on multi-disciplinary subject lines, cross cutting Science, Arts, Humanities and Economics. For instance, on one hand it may aim appropriate adaptation of North-born technologies to rudimentary South. On the other hand, it would aim to add value to indigenous wisdom and amplify the voices of the voiceless, of the South.

Strategy

Fusion aims to utilize the existing programs of Sarvodaya IT Unit as the launching pad. It would envisage becoming an Independent Non-profit Institution affiliated to Sarvodaya towards 2010, where Fusion would be legally registered as a Fusion Company Limited by Guarantee. The transition had been commenced from October 2006, with the launch of Fusion Governing Structure.

Strategic engagement of Fusion designed to be two fold;

A) Programmatic frontier

B) Visionary frontier

Programmatic frontier would follow the norms of project planning & implementation methodologies. They would embody in the existing vision of Fusion, and would respond to present day demands. The Visionary frontier would allow Fusion to expand beyond the rigid boundaries of program implementation and would aim to extend Fusion paradigm towards (medium to long term) future. It would build new insights into gap areas, seek new horizons to harmonize ICT4D with Development as a holistic engagement (ie. integrating into nature, culture, economics and science).

Programmatic frontier: will concentrate on 5 thematic areas;

1. Telecentre / ICT4D technology program

2. Knowledge empowerment program

3. Research & development program

4. Social enterprising program

5. Partnership building program

Visionary frontier: is the more amorphous, as it needs room to develop its own evolutionary thinking process. In the long term, this is expected to form the Fusion University of Wisdom which would:

• translate intellectual investigation into practice
• be physically homed in a unique set up, architecturally designed to include Fusion theme centre & coordinating centre
• be virtually homed through state of the art web platform