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Hullo Everyone
I am called David Ewaku and work with The Life in Africa Foundation in Uganda. We are currently biulding a new industry platform that we hope wilol enable people from around the world especially Africa get more utility from the internet and its use. We are basing our model on the E-gold system in that we intend to mobilise and enable people from Africa and around the world use, save and trade using E-gold. We are a small team with diverse beliefs (Islam, christianity and some do not really belong anywhere) Many of the websites are not yet up due to some technical difficulties e.g. Our internet connection is down about 80% of the time and we end up being unable to do much. E-gold for us is the future and we feel that people should come together on a platform of understanding and promote its use around the world as Gold is a universal currency. THe biggest problem we have encountered so far with the current E- gold system is that its calculation will be hard for many people to decode. For example we in Uganda use Uganda shillings and this is the currency the people around understand. Converting this price to gold without an simple automated system inbiult will be very hard. Right now we have to first convert it to dollars and then to gold. The average website visitor does not usually have such patience and a local Ugandan will find this complicated. This can be assumed of people of people around Africa and the rest of the world that does not deal in Dollars. We do not believe we can get the world onto E-gold right now as it is a long process but feel that in order to get there faster people must be able to see and use E-gold locally in their local communities. For example this means they must be able know the value of there E-gold in Shillings and as time goes on then Gold will become more familiar and they will feel more comfortable in just using it. Currently being developed at our think tank in Uganda are a series of programs to revolutionalise the way the internet is used today. We believe everyone needs help and no criteria exists to say a person does not. Micro-Success: The Universal Personal Web-Sight. Micro-Success is designed to serve as an all-in-one vehicle for self expression and discovery, the showcasing of products and ideas, and fostering the success of projects and people whose work the site owner believes in. Twelve templated versions of the Micro-Success product are currently under development, ranging from the Micro-Visionary to the Micro- Merchant to the Micro-Child. Each site's functionality is designed on the premise that everyone needs help. Rather than boast of accomplishments, the Micro-Success product places a premium on how we help each other to get ahead. Linkages within the LiA4 (Africa) and global Micro-Success communities are designed to reinforce and multiply the poverty alleviation impact of each transaction. For example: --> A small-scale Micro-Artisan who manufactures peanut butter in Africa could sell her peanut butter to international website visitors for delivery to a local orphanage. --> The leader of a community-based poultry development project in Africa could use his Micro-Success site to indicate the project's needs. Website visitors would be directed to the Micro-Success sites of local vendors, where they can purchase chicks, feed, and building materials to be delivered to the project directly. --> International website visitors can purchase toys from local merchants, to be delivered to children at Christmas by a local organization. In addition to developing the Micro-success web-sight product, LiA is currently developing a number of domains that are designed to supplement the product for African clients. The new LiA4 sites currently under development include: --> www.Micro-success.com Micro-success.com will run as a search engine directory for all of the micro-success sites hosted at various domains. --> www.LiA4Uganda.com The world's first ever Micro-Impact Market, LiA4Uganda will be home to Ugandan owned Micro-Success sites and a directory of local shops and development service providers enabled for online purchases via e- gold. --> www.Visions4Africa.com Targeted to the African audience continent-wide, Visions 4 Africa is designed to be a collection point for recording the numerous visions that God has been sending to Africa. The site's directory will be organized allowing the user to categorize their vision according to the Universal Harvest Principles, the form the vision was received in, manifestations of the vision in the real world, and links to their own work or the work of others that is helping the vision to become real. --> www.Click4Africa.com Initially to target the Home Based Business market on-line, Click4Africa issues a call to mobilize people into fun-filled healing action for the global soul. Participants receive training on how to incorporate simple promotional actions for the needy into their daily online routine. The Click4Africa reward system is based on "bananas," which are like points earned for doing good deeds. Bananas can be traded in for locally made (Ugandan) prizes. --> www.Internet4Change.com I4C will be a certifying body which trains and certifies agents to create micro-success web-sights for African rural and urban clients, and plug them into the rest of the LiA complex of promotional and development oriented domains listed above. I4C will also be a publishing house for internet content to be reproduced in offline formats for up-country distribution. Within the next 6 months, an anticipated 100 initial I4C agents will be mobilized and trained to begin bringing the Ugandan market online. These same agents, as well as volunteers recruited internationally will also begin building the first I4C rural center in Uganda. We are reaching out and telling the world who we are http://lifeinafrica.com/tour/people.htm Yours Sincerely David Ewaku Chief Operations Officer Life in Africa Foundation Kampala, Uganda Tel: 25677 505654 P/S: Africa's future lies not in licking her wounds and crying over the past and negative things around us. We must join hands and start thinking of peace biulding. Western Civilization through their laws concetrate on "Do not do this or that" But with peace biulding we must reach out and want to have change. Many of us do not have the inner belief or faith that we can be part of change, although it is at our finger tips. Let us develop platforms that will help people across Africa cross the DIGITAL DIVIDE because only then will the world respect us. To them we will have become a "MARKET" but to us we will have become a strong people. Biulding Africa's new E-conomy through the internet www.lia4.com www.lifeinafrica.com The Mulindwas communication
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