[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Back in Afghanistan

[Mark Lucas]

Thought I'd broadcast this to the OSGeo community.  Please feel free to contact Jenn if you think you can help.

Mark


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> From: Jenn Gold <jenngold at insygroup.com>
> Subject: Back in Afghanistan
> Date: January 18, 2012 6:21:39 AM EST
> To: mlucas at radiantblue.com
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> Hey Mark,
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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 :)
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> https://twitter.com/#!/search/KabulLab - use @kabulinnovationlab
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> https://www.facebook.com/kabulinnovationlab
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> 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!
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> Jenn
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