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Inaugural Conference Call was 8/28/08
Erik Hersman - White African - Afrigadget & Ushahidi.com crowdsourcing sms/text.
Needs Help: Looking at different orgs that could alpha the product - size doesn’t matter, pilot, best in out of the way locations, trying to aggregate a lot of information, maybe some opportunities with Question Box per Jon Gosier
Glenn Strachan - glennstrachan.com - @glennstrachan - US Aid Work Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, does broadband wireless in dev countries and effect economic development, final throws in Lesotho wireless project, contacts in Lesotho, connections with 20 telecom companies, Uganda done some mesh-networking approach in small villages but with an entrepreneur (non NGO) approach to it, Sierra Leone connectivity.
Needs Help: Looking for some contacts that have ties to telecom, ICT and wireless inside Lesotho.
Emeka Okafor - blogs at Timbuktu Chronicles and Africa unchained & entrepreneur NY company African beverages Caranda Fine Foods,Makeda Fund - X Prize Foundation advisor - in conference business - directed Ted Africa last year, Africa, innovation, entrepreneurship, X Prize, Gates Foundation, Global Development Commons.
Needs Help: with ideas focusing on efforts getting vendors to work together and best practices (they have a habit of not sharing what doesn’t work). Also regarding the X-Prize what are the types of categories and problems could be focused on, what could 10 million dollars solve in the developing world.
Chris Stewart - @socialtopher - passionate about microfinance and Eastern Europe, software developer with an insurance company, more details next week.
Jon Gosier - appfrica.org @appfrica - Kampala, Uganda - CTO of Question Box a social startup using mobile devices to put rural areas online. Glenn and Jon need to connect. Connect to people at Mobile Active possibly, Google and Grameen Bank doing work in Uganda, Eric in Grameen working in Uganda with App Lab. Glenn will connect Jon, also see assetmap.org.
Needs Help: Looking for mobile and software apps companies in Uganda to work with. Would like to talk to contacts local to Uganda Grameen and Google.
Dave Witzel - forumone.com - @dwitzel - Peace Corps Botswana, Forum One, Policy Commons, openness and sharing with dev sharing, See; development commons, open education resources as a development tool
Mark Grimes - ned.com - @neddotcom - Serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneur and sometimes angel investor. Interested in exploring collective project funding with projects and orgs thru ned.com
Needs Help: Exploring merging market Y Combinator meets the developing world with an online/incubator type flavor and looking for a trusted partner on the ground.
Leila Chirayath - samasource.org (leila (at) samasource (dot) org) - founder of Samasource.org, which aims to create knowledge jobs for the poor through business process and IT outsourcing.
Needs Help: closing an angel funding round of $200K to move us to completion on our pilot; looking for projects for small companies in Africa (current clients include Benetech and several Bay Area start-ups)-- can be anything from data entry to transcription to software development. For more info on our brokerage model check out samasource.com.
Others Invited: wanted to attend and will (probably) in the near future
Ken Banks - kiwanja.net - @kiwanja
Eric Osiakwan - afrispa.org
Mike Stopforth - afrigator.com - @afrigator
Ellen Petry Leanse - chep2m.wordpress.com - @chep2m
Kahenya - kahenya.com - @kahenya
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