Good evening all,
I'm currently in Sierra Leone working on a network engineering contract
as part of the international Ebola response. We are improving the
reliability and speed of Internet connections for numerous NGOs which
are helping the country recover from the Ebola crisis. Here's a few URLs
about what we're doing:
http://www.nethope.org/
http://www.inveneo.org/2015/01/partnership-expands-ict-support-for-ebola-fight-in-west-africa/
http://www.satellitetoday.com/telecom/2015/01/26/nethope-official-satellite-response-to-ebola-is-on-a-scale-never-seen-before/
https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/01/why-high-speed-internet-is-a-weapon-against-ebola/
At the moment I am "up country" in the city of Bo and will be returning
to Freetown in a few days.
If you are interested in helping out in any way, either with a donation
of resources, equipment or anything else, please get in touch with me. I
will put you in contact with the right people. There are some very good
public relations opportunities for organizations that make a meaningful
contribution to the recovery of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea from
the Ebola crisis.
Over the next several weeks I will post a selection of notable and
unusual photos from Sierra Leont to the afmug list. Please let me know
if the volume of photos or file sizes become excessive.
It's 10:00 PM here at the moment (GMT time zone in West Africa), but if
anyone wants to contact me directly, my local mobile phone numbers are
below. This will be the first time I'm including my "full" email sig in
a post to afmug in the last few months. There's two different phones on
both of the local GSM carriers. It costs about 35-40 cents a minute to
call here.
--
Eric Kuhnke
[email protected]
Sierra Leone (Africell): +232-88-284222
Sierra Leone (Airtel) +232-79-107461
Ghana (MTN): +233-5478-81863
Iridium: +1-480-768-2500 followed by 8816-234-59301
Vancouver: +1-604-783-3317
Skype: erickuhnke
