Ndapewa V. Hangula: ‘Doing things a German approach has shabby me significantly’

Name: Ndapewa V. Hangula
Lives in: Windhoek, Namibia
Country of origin: Namibia
Period in Germany: 2004 bis 2005
Occupation: Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers Namibia Advisory department

After receiving a grade in Commercial Information Technology during Windhoek Polytechnic, Ndapewa V. Hangula worked with several companies in a tele-communications sector. During this period, she spent a year in Germany as partial of a InWEnt-programme ‘IT Consultancy in African Businesses’.

Her veteran growth was her categorical concentration after her return. In 2009, she finished a grade march in Business Administration during a University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. At a same time, she was partial of a start-up that grown an app for mobile income transfers. In 2013, she founded her possess consultancy business. In 2015, she left her association since she could not conflict a offer of handling a IT patron services dialect of PricewaterhouseCoopers Namibia and being partial of a company’s ‘Strategic Business Services’.

Looking behind during your career, what partial does Germany play in your CV?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: Germany unprotected me to IT consulting in businesses, and even yet we usually started consulting a few years after returning from Germany, a training laid a plain substructure for me. Doing things a ‘German way’ has also shabby me significantly. we remember removing undone when we returned behind to my aged pursuit in Namibia, yet it worked out in a end.

There are many Germany-Alumni in Namibia. Are we concerned in a internal alumni scene, do we even take an active partial in it? Is there a functioning network among a Germany-Alumni?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: When we came behind from Germany we was really active in alumni-related activities both within and outward Namibia. Unfortunately there is not an active network that I’m wakeful of, yet should one be established, we would really many like to be partial of it.

What does it meant to we to be a GIZ-Alumna? What is a tie we have to a GIZ today?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: GIZ unprotected me to so many aspects of life, generally on a veteran platform. As an alumna, we wish to be partial of a ability building programmes so we can plough behind or support others as we have perceived good assistance from a German supervision by InWEnt. The tie we have currently to GIZ is not as clever as we would have elite yet what we can contend is that I’m pro-Germany. we am pushing a German car, we am doing my MBA with a German Business School and would adore to go behind one day.

You took partial in a GIZ training programme in a information and record (IT) sector. What are in your eyes a differences between information and communication record (ICT) in Germany and ICT in Namibia?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: ICT in Germany is of march distant forward compared to ICT in Namibia, generally during a time we was in Germany. Fortunately, ICT in Namibia is now many some-more modernized than it was 10 years ago. We now have broadband Internet opposite a country, with 4G in Windhoek and 3G in many other towns. Almost everybody now owns a dungeon phone, including a immature and a old.

Most schools now have mechanism labs; even yet not all are connected to a Internet it still exposes learners to record during an progressing age than it was during my propagandize days. Namibia also has an active amicable network appearance by a girl and roughly everybody we know is possibly on Twitter or Facebook, and a professionals on Linked-In. However, there is still a lot that contingency be done, as Internet is not permitted or permitted to everyone, generally in a farming areas.

Which instruction is ICT growth holding in Africa? What trends are newly rising and will be applicable for a future?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: ICT is building utterly fast in Africa. we trust a use and uptake of mobile phones as remuneration collection have grown faster in Africa than anywhere else in a world. we also recently review about dual boys from Nigeria who grown their possess amicable network that is really identical to Facebook. The use of dungeon phones is so widespread that even my two-year-old daughter knows how to work my smartphone, she knows how to entrance YouTube and other children apps that we have commissioned for her. The rising trends are mobile phone remuneration apps, as good as amicable networks. A mobile phone is no longer usually a calling/texting device yet is used for other purposes, even as a business tool.

What was your proclivity to settle your possess company?

Ndapewa V. Hangula: What encouraged me to start adult NAT Business Consulting and Support services is that Namibia gets so many consultants from outward a republic even yet we have internal skills available. My aim was to promote projects where we source internal skills and still broach a same if not improved formula for a clients. we also wanted to have stretchable time as my daughter was usually a few months, and we indispensable to have coherence to be with her as many as we could.

This was severe during initial as we had to take work home, yet we shortly learnt how to conduct my time to give courtesy to work and home. My other proclivity was to emanate practice opportunities, and during a time we was operative for myself, we had 5 people operative for a company. There is so many intensity in this country, and by starting adult companies like NAT Consulting, we minister to republic building by contracting immature Namibians. My dream is to go behind to using my association again, yet usually after some years.

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