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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