[AfrICANN-discuss] Google launches official blog for Africa

[oscar Nsarhaza]

Hey Divon ,

Thank you for the initiative, we look after and I think my hand, there is
enough hope because young minds have exploitable potential if they are in a
framework that enables them to do something.

Best regards

- Oscar Nsarhaza



2008/7/5 Divon Lan <divon at google.com>:

> Hey Oscar,
>
> Yeah, of course I remember (now!)
>
> Anyways, doing something similar in Central Africa seams like a good idea.
> One of the reasons we started with East Africa is that we already had
> relationships with universities there. Let me bring this up with our team
> and see what can be done.
>
> -divon
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 18:31, oscar Nsarhaza <monsar04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> If you remember well, in Rabat, we spoke for a long time just to exchange
>> ideas, I am in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Central Africa), teams of
>> people who work for the development of open source applications here in
>> Congo are part of Universities mainly:
>> ISTA (Higher Institute of Applied Technology), which is my university,
>> UNIKIN (University of Kinshasa), UNILU (University of LUBUMBASHI), FCK
>> (Catholic Faculties of Kinshasa), UNIKIS (University of KISANGANI), UCB
>> (Catholic University of BUKAVU) UPN (National Pedagogical University), UK
>> (University Kongo) and other private universities.
>> I think if there is a good coaching these young minds can produce more
>> that is done now.
>> A competition organized by google can arouse the interest and motivation.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> 2008/7/5 Divon Lan <divon at google.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Oscar,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback - I hope we can make it more interesting going
>>> forward :)
>>>
>>> What country / university are you from?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -divon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 18:08, oscar Nsarhaza <monsar04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>> Message read and understood, very uninteresting blog.
>>>> But why only the contest is open to East Africa, I hope you will also
>>>> organize a competition for Central Africa. We look forward to the towers of
>>>> Central Africa.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> 2008/7/5 Divon Lan <divon at google.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>  Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought it might be worth while letting you know that we (Google)
>>>>> launched our official blog for Sub Saharan Africa this week.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can view it here: http://google-africa.blogspot.com
>>>>>
>>>>> We have also launched a new discussion forum open to all, for
>>>>> discussing topics related to Google and the Internet in Africa:
>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-africa-community
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you find these useful and interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Divon Lan
>>>>> Product Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>
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