Hey, you are welcome to click4africa teams, below is how you can get involved,,

How can I join a click4africa team?

Introducing the Click4Gulu and Click4Kireka teams! To qualify to participate and to have your points counted toward keeping your favorite Click4Africa team connected, you must complete ALL of the simple steps below:

1.Join ned.com

1.fill out your profile using your real names

2.add the team name you wish to support as a TAG on your profile (click4kireka or click4gulu)

3.Join these 3 groups: NedUganda, Life in Africa Global, and Life in Africa USA

2.Join Facebook.com

1.Become a LiA Fan

2.Join the Life in Africa Group

Join iGive.com to support Life in Africa @

http://www.igive.com/welcome/war mwelcome.cfm?c=43292&m=52419 9

So that your team (click4kireka) gets the point for recruiting you)

When feeling a simple form, where zip code is required fill in 92880

After joining iGive.com click on the mall, Waite for the page to load then click on merchants then you will see lists of shops that you need to click only ten a day and the next day a different ten as at the top it will show you the recent visited. After the page has loaded close and call it a day.

How do I earn points for my chosen team?

Your profile must be tagged by you with a team name to be counted. The first thing we'll check is whether you've completed all of the qualification steps listed above. Once you are qualified, the following activities will be counted on the 15th of each month and included in the tally of your team's cumulative points:

At ned.com

•your number of points given away

•the number of friends who have given you feedback

•the number of personal feeback points you have received

•your comment feedback score

At Facebook

•Your number of friends

•The number of people you've recruited to the Life in Africa cause

•The number of dollars you've raised for the Life in Africa cause (x 2)

•the number of links from the Life in Africa group page that you've shared on your facebook profile

At iGive.com

•the number of shops you've visited (/2)

•the number of people you've recruited to join iGive in support of Life in Africa

•the number of people you've recruited who have shopped

•the number of $US raised through your own shopping

•the number of dollars you've earned in bonuses (x 2)

I started to put together the points so far for round 1 but I am not going to continue. Only two people are qualified to be counted. They are Peter and Jesca of Kireka. Good job to both of them!!!! I have posted a listing over here http://www.ned.com/group/lia-usa /ws/click4africa___round_1/

This shows what steps are missing to get qualified. If your name is not on the list it is probably because you did not tag your profile so I would have no way of knowing who you are. If you are not on the list you will have to send me a pm to get added.

For Igive, you were asked to send the log in information. However, I can see all the names who have signed up for our cause. If all of you would just go to your account, click on stores visited and it will give you a list of all the stores. Copy the list in an email and send it to me at evvy4lia@yahoo.com and I can verify your visits. Maybe this will be easier.

I am going to give you all until Wed. of next week to get qualified. Then I will do the point tallies. If you have questions, contact me.

Nice but I will try to see that all these people qualify.

New Program and another way to earn money!!!!

We are now listed with Goodsearch.com and can start earning money every day. Here's how it works.

1. Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/
2. Select Life in Africa USA as your charity and click VERIFY
3. Now start doing searches.

Each time you search, Life in Africa earns .01. That may not seem like much but if enough people do it the amount can really add up. We could feasably earn enough each year to pay for the internet connections at both centers.

Each month I will take the amount earned and turn it into points (1 point for each search done). 1/3 of the points will go to Gulu, 1/3 to Kireka, 1/3 to the admin team.

Things to DO:

• You must have Life in Africa selected and verified for the search to count
• You must do ligitimate searches. They can be for anything or any word. Try and do at least 10 different searches per day/session.
• Send out notices to all your friends on Facebook and other networks and ask them to do searches too.
• Make sure all your team members know about this and help each other get started.

Thing NOT to Do:

• Do not just keep searching the same thing over and over - this will disqualify us
• Do not search for URLs - they do not count
• Do not search for images or videos - they do not count
• Do not do searches for pornography or illicit topics - this will disqualify us

If you have any questions, contact me.

Happy clicking!!!!!

Here is a sample of an email you can send to all your friends. You can just copy it and paste to make things really easy. Try and send to as many friends as possible. The more people we have searching for us, the more money we can earn.

What if Life in Africa USA earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!

GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Life in Africa USA as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

Hi!

In advance, I can't promise to shift the needle much as I made the decision to take my fb profile down and I'm not putting it back up - or creating a newbie - in 2008. (well.... not before July anyway.)

But I just did the searches I needed to do via goodsearch (with LiA USA listed) and will continue to do that and pass it on to friends.

How do you know with goodsearch how to divide the kampala and gulu totals? (I think I missed something) Or is this just being divided up equally? Or do I need to tell you how many searches I did and list it here?

Sorry Evvy .... I'm having a super blonde moment!

PS: I think all of this is just fantastic :)

OK.... darker shade of blonde now. Just read the top bit again properly. So the no-fb-2008 thing is a problem? Lemme know.

I'll do the other stuff shortly. (some of it I've already done anyway.)

Hi, Rogers you are welcome. Thanks to Evvy for finding us excited things that will keep us busy! OuR bigest challenge is the slow internet but hope with these clickings and searching we may get a faster internet as time goes on

Hi Peter - thank you :)

Evvy,

I'll send you a PM about the things I wrote above - you mustn't have seen my questions from a few days ago given all the work you have on at the moment and all you have to stay on top of.

I might not be of any use to the Kampala group in terms of clicking as it doesn't seem I meet the requirements. What can I do to help recruit others? Have people at Ned already been asked to join either group?

Cheers, Gayle

Hi Gayle,

so sorry, I guess I did miss your post above. Didn't mean to ignore you at all.

I understand that you don't want to participate on FB right now and I am sure you have your reasons. However, one of the requirements that Christina wrote into the programis that you have to go on FB and join the group and the cause for LiA and become a fan. That is the bare minimum. Anything else you do is just for points. But you do have to do the bare minimum to get any points on ned or igive counted for the team. Since these are the rules for all the members in Uganda, they have to also apply to the international members.

If you still want to help though you can do a few searches for us on www.goodsearch.com each day. You just pick LiA as the cause and then do searches. These points are all counted and are divided equally among the teams so it will in the end help everyone. Plus we get paid for every search. Maybe you could get a lot of your friends to do this too. If we could get up to getting around 200 searches a day it will pay for the internet connections almost totally and that would be a big help.

Evvy - not for a minute did I think you were "ignoring" me!!

You've got so many threads you are having to stay on top of and that is just at Ned so absolutely no apology required. :)

Yeah - the facebook thing is really interesting for me at the moment. I was at a political fund-raiser recently and a couple of the Chiefs of Staff of some of the new members of Parliament (in PM Rudd's new Government) had taken their profiles down for similar reasons to mine.

That written, another friend who was there said he was going to give us all "facebook anti-noise and management tuition" regarding it not driving us nuts with inbox noise and nonsense and becoming an unconscious time-suck. Time will tell and when I go back in I'll be the first to link up with LiA.

The goodsearch is no prob at all and I've already started to pass on the email.

Cheers, G.

Thank you so much!!! I must admit that I don't have quite enough time to really work FB with everything else that I am doing (or trying to do) both online and off. Its a lot of work setting up a new organization, more than I had anticipated. Thanks for doing goodsearch for us. It will help a lot.

No matter the many, many extras that have popped up, no matter how time-poor you are feeling - every day you need to set aside just a few minutes to remind yourself that you are actually doing it ..... it is up and moving (yay!) ..... and you are doing GREAT!!!!!!!

Evvy, I would be really interested to know whether you can do a survey to find out how many of the internet telecenter users a) need to make an income (ie don't already have a steady income or would like to augment their income), b) see computers as a vehicle for income creation, c) have the skills to turn a computer into an income generator, and d) could get their services to market.

There must be ample room for someone to: - Build websites - Create web assets - Write web content - Provide other computer-based services through the vehicle of a telecenter

I can imagine this work being done during off-peak hours. Is it feasible? What kind of training would be necessary?

• Basic html/tools
• Basic css/tools
• Basic graphics creation/tools
• Web2.0 concepts/tools

Just a thought. Seemed reasonable after I read the click4kireka. i'm just not an online shopper... :( I did add the GoodSearch bit :)

Hi every body, Lars; good to see you on this thread and thanks to EVVY finding all these! sincerely when I see both these goodsearch and igive, both can be good tools for telecenter income.

Am sure in two weeks to come Kireka center shall have over sixty members sighed up and begin cliking.

Hi Lars, thanks for chiming in here. I have given quite a bit of thought to your questions. First, I would have to say that ALL of the people coming to our center to click are in great need of income, either extra or just income. They all look at the internet as a thing of wonder and they see possibilities. Yes, we have a long way to go. What will it take? A better connection for one before we can really utilize its full potential. We need to solve the power problem in Kireka which is awful. And we need training for key people at least. All this takes money and that is what we are in short supply of. But the potential is so amazing that it keeps up going and even clicking for pennies to make it happen.

You are wondering how all this can generate income and create change for these wonderful people. Imagine with me for a moment. Imagine a virtual marketplace, an African market place on line where all these ordinary people could come together and where international visitors could come. Imagine a network of shops of all kinds operating by these ordinary people. Are you interested in African art? Well click into the art center and browse through the art for sale of talented artists or participate in a weekly auction of a few special pieces. Interested in African cooking? Step into the kitchen shop and maybe watch a video demonstration on how to make japati and while you're there pick up the latest copy of the LiA cookbook full of African recipes. Are you a Ugandan either living abroad or in the city and you want to send clothes to your relatives in the village? Step into the used clothing shop operated by a widow raising 5 kids. You can not only buy the clothes you can arrange to have them delivered. Or step into the Jungle Bead shop and buy a gift. Maybe you are interested in participating in microfinance, well step into the loan office and view loan applications you can invest in. Kind of like a mini Kiva. Visit the school zone and sponsor a child in school or buy school supplies, uniforms or shoes all from shops run by LiA members. Buy peanut butter from Grace's shop and send it to an orphanage or to the LiA Kids club. You can do it all at the African Market Place and its an exciting place, full of variety and people from all walks of life. Maybe you want to help a family build a house. They need thousands of bricks so you buy 100 or so bricks from a LiA brickmaker and have them delivered to the site. A place like this could be wonderful. Generating income for the businesses and helping those in need all at the same time. Can you see it? I see it so clearly and at night when I can't sleep and I am worried about how to keep things going it is the vision of this that comforts me and keeps me moving forward towards the vision. This is not my vision, Christina had this vision 5 years ago and I was very priviledged to be a part of the initial planning group. This vision has never left me and I know in my heart we can make it a reality.

We have a long way to go but we are on the road, the right road, and in the distance I hear the voices of the people in those online shops, I see the visitors coming and going and I see lives being changed. What can I say, we are a different kind of family. Christina is the visionary and her visions are wonderful and I am the believer in her visons.

Sorry to be so long winded but it felt good to talk about it.

thank you evvy - lovely vision! i do think data from your users would help to make the case - little pebbles to light your path and give funders something shiny to look at. at the time time, i can't help feeling like there are basic internet training and services that can be carried out. say two years investment in training might yield a few digital services business. i've seen ex-pats make a successful go of advertising and design services in Africa, catering to many niche markets (restaurants - menus; entrepreneurs - business cards; businesses - web site etc). just a though i hope would complement your vision - not detract, distract or derail it!

By 'data from your users' are you referring to doing a survey. Just trying to make sure I understand your thoughts. Believe me, I am open to any and all suggestions.

As far as the digital service businesses, that has always been part of the vision. A group of trained members called Internet4Change Agents who would operate their own businesses within the network. They would be trained to do just such things as you mention plus set up basic websites for the vendors in the market place. There is a definite need for this kind of service, not only with our own members but with others in their communities and I believe they would utilize the services if they were priced affordably. Our Agents can earn an income while helping others earn an income. We are actively trying to relaunch the I4C program now. Click4Africa is not only about working for the centers but it is also designed to identify those who can fit into this niche market if training were provided.

yes, the data could be collected from surveys (perhaps go into a partnership with area telecenters that the splash page IE opens to would be a short survey in exchange for something...). also getting to know the marketplace - potential client surveys (where do they get their digital services, are they happy with them, what else do they need). i am a big fan of interview methods over surveys, though surveys help you hit larger samples size...

when does the training go live, or what are the obstacles? do you have a curriculum? i am sorry i seem so naive - i read so much about the e-commerce stuff i have lost track of where these 'traditional' (if i can use the word here!) services are.

also, have you followed the text book publishing discussion?

Am following this discussion and realy its a cool and meaningful discussion that if done as Evvy descibed above, it would yeild some thing tangable. There few members who have learnt and have interest in online activities, they just need to be asighned to do cetain task and they will do it,

Thanks Peter for the good work of clicking. Keep it up. Its true with what you have said. "they just need to be asighned to do cetain task and they will do it," And they should show intrest in it.