[Grassroots-l] Uganda

Marten Vijn info at martenvijn.nl
Wed Jun 11 13:04:52 EDT 2008


Jon,

You may want to meet/get friends on the i-network mailinglist.
I forwarded your question.

http://www.i-network.or.ug
http://www.dgroups.org/groups/i-network/index.cfm?op=main&cat_id=1520

kind regards,
Marten


On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:09 +1200, Jon Chamberlain wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I am moving my family to Uganda, and one of my goals for the trip is
> to use my skills and knowledge for community-development initiatives.
> I have already made a few good contacts in Uganda through the
> nabuur.com community project site, but many of them seem to focus on
> 'recycling' old computers for community-based projects across the
> country.
> 
> However, as someone with a good technical background, a pro-'open
> source' attitude and a career in IT project management, I wondered if
> there an opportunity to become an advocate for the OLPC programme in
> Uganda?
> 
> Is anyone working on OLPC in Uganda? If not, how would I get something
> off the ground?
> 
> Cheers
> Jon
> 
> 
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