About us

We are a training and consulting agency specialising in new media technologies and e-learning.

We work exclusively for international organisations in the fields of research, education, communication and development.

We provide high-level advice, expertise and training on the key new media skills that are most needed by international organisations when confronted with improving their communications and visibility, and on their strong need for leveraging the same technologies for knowledge management and e-learning.

We're dedicated to helping international organisations involved in global knowledge development, information dissemination or education gear-up for the online world.

What we do best

• International workshops, seminars, lectures, training courses
  
  
• Web-based tools and services to promote the learning of new media technologies and distance education systems
  
  
• Strategic advice on ICT and distance learning policies for international organisations
  
  
• Implementation of projects in developing markets on behalf of donors or sponsorship agencies
  
  
• Participatory global information systems and portal development
  
  
• Assessment of ICT usability, accessibility and performance

Our objectives

1) To create interactive learning objects, tools, books, guides and services that serve the global knowledge development ethic.

2) To consult, train and advise our clients and partners on the best strategy and approach to leverage new media technologies and the online world for their information publishing and dissemination needs.

3) To share our discoveries, know-how and best practices with the community of educators and researchers worldwide by providing seminars, lectures and training workshops where they can learn to master the skills and techniques of the interactive universe.

Who we are

We are a small group of free and courageous researchers who have been testing the new techniques and methods offered by the ICT revolution since its inception:

• a creative and strategic director,
• an information architect and senior editor,
• a technology analyst and engineer,
• a senior information designer,
• a website publisher and online researcher,
• a presentation specialist.

Learn all about us in the People section.

Our ethics

IKONOS New Media is a training and consulting agency focussing on the effective use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for international organisations in research, education and development.

We focus on research and development of effective methods, best practices and the definition of new standards for presenting, exchanging and publishing information via electronic media.

Due to the particular needs of our clients, we strive to adopt grass-roots approaches to solving problems with technology, and to advise on the adoption of solutions that provide the greatest compatibility and accessibility.

We like to work for a good cause. This is the case of most of the work we do for development agencies, universities, research institutions.

We like to do very challenging, quality work.

We like to design, develop, test and launch interactive information and education systems that take advantage of new media technologies and effective information architecture and design.

Our motto is:
Think strategy, before technology.

Where we are going

IKONOS' mission is to help research, education, communication and development institutions become successful in leveraging the potential benefits that new technologies and effective communication and design can bring to their sustainability through:

1. Development and production of interactive multimedia projects.

2. Workshops, seminars and custom training courses targeted at their key audiences.

3. Research and analysis of new technologies and methodological approaches for interactive learning and communication.

We believe in synergy, collaboration and sharing. Strategy is the driving force behind our commitment to uncompromised excellence.

We like to think that by sharing more and more of our knowledge, we can achieve a new and fascinating form of immortality. Knowledge and expertise sharing is what we seek in our ideal partners.

We strive to have our clients view us as partners. We build on their knowledge and view our own role as facilitators who drive them to reach consensus on critical initiatives and who give them the firepower to make those initiatives reality.

History

IKONOS New Media has been in existence since 1988 and we have been at the forefront in creating cutting edge projects since the very beginning of the information age.

Last updated June 2001