Thought I'd broadcast this to the OSGeo community. Please feel free to contact Jenn if you think you can help.
Mark Begin forwarded message: > From: Jenn Gold <jenng...@insygroup.com> > Subject: Back in Afghanistan > Date: January 18, 2012 6:21:39 AM EST > To: mlu...@radiantblue.com > > Hey Mark, > > > > Happy belated New Years! I hope you are well and that the holiday's were good > to you. Rachel, Juan and I are back in Afghanistan for another round with > some exciting news. We won a contract with Internews to help coordinate the > first Innovation Lab in Afghanistan. It's in Kabul next week. We are > responsible for documenting the event and organizing media coverage. > > > > In a nutshell the Lab is a 3 day event bringing together local and > international IT experts, geeks, students, Ministry officials and funders to > discuss Afghanistan's IT development AND educate Afghans on using technology > to create social change. There are countless countries that are struggling > through civil war, poverty and lack of education who have been using basic > ICT's to improve their situations; we are bringing those lessons to the lab > to give the Afghan's new ideas and encouragement (I could go off on a > tangent, but I'll restrain myself). > > > > And probably most exciting is we have been asked by Internews to speak on our > SMS projects that we completed with agriculture and health. We are very > excited and I hope it will lead to funding opportunities. > > > > With that being said, we've contacted a slew of media outlets, but we want to > reach more. I'm going to include the links to our Twitter feed and Facebook > page - if you have either accounts could you please advertise our website - > www.kabulinnovationlab.com. or circulate it via email :) > > https://twitter.com/#!/search/KabulLab - use @kabulinnovationlab > > https://www.facebook.com/kabulinnovationlab > > > > Rachel, Juan and I really appreciate your help and support. We hope you are > doing well. Take care and keep in touch, tell us what you are up to and how > you are doing! > > Jenn >
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