Hola, Guideon Chonia,membre de les xarxes ciutadanes de Ghana, m'envia aquesta informacio i demanda d'ajut per establir un Centre de Open Source en Accra. Es un teaching assistant en la Univ. de Zurich. Sembla que el moviment de Open Source esta comen�ant en aquest continent. Fins ara, Artur ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gideon Hayford Chonia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: We need your assistance for Open Source
> Hello Artur, > > This is Gideon, very sorry to disturb your peace for we need your help. > > The free software model makes sense for Africa and the model is the only > way for Africa to ever leapfrog its status as an underdeveloped > continent. > > We have achieved some goals already with our effort to bring Open Source > awareness into Africa. > > We met on ICT policy and civil society workshop in Addis Ababa, > Ethiopia, > and started to organize ourselves. > > With support of Global Community Network Partnership GNCP, we were able > to set up a mailing list. > African Linux Users Group AFLUG > http://globalcn.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/aflug > Million thanks to Gareth Shearman and crew who made this wonderful > provisions for us. > > We have now a Web Portal running, which will be translated into African > languages. http://osfa.allafrica.com/ > > Our next step is training, and we are in the process of building > a resource center in Accra-Ghana, West Africa, where training and > distribution of refurbished computers will take place. > > We have shipped a 20 footer Container with donated used and refurbished > computers and components we collected from the University Of Zurich, > Banks > and Insurance companies in Switzerland, to be used at the resource > center. > The container will arrive in Ghana by the end of February. > > We are now soliciting for funds to help us support volunteers coming > from Europe and other parts of Africa to assist in organizing and > installing of the computers at the resource center. > > We figure an amount of about $5,000 for the necessary logistics to cater > > for these volunteers, scheduled for the months of March and April 2003. > > We will therefore be more than grateful if you could direct us to > funding agency or help us locate willing organization to support and > help us with our project. > > Your personal contribution and or from your organization is also > welcomed and appreciated. > > Kindly send any contribution to: > > African Open Source Resource Center Project > > In favour of: Chonia Informatica > African Open Source Resource Center Project > P.O. Box C2325 Accra / Ghana > Account Number:873348003 > > Bank Information: Social Security Bank LTD. > International Banking Dept. > P.O. Box 13119 > Accra / Ghana > Swift: SSEBGHACA > > Correspondent Bank: Citibank NA > 16th. Floor Zone 1 > 111 Wall Street > New York 10043 / USA > Account Number: 36010817 > > Thanks Artur, for we appreciate any support and we thank you very much > for > your support and regards > > Gideon > > ---- > Gideon Hayford Chonia Tel. +41 1 635-4543 > University Zurich, Fax +41 1 635-4505 > Winterthurerstrasse 190 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CH-8057 Zurich [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bushmail: ....!Earth!Africa!Ghana!Pokoase!Yaovi > > ---------- Ich darf ge-Du-zt werden ---------- >
