<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thought I'd broadcast this to the OSGeo community. Please feel free to contact Jenn if you think you can help.<div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jenn Gold <<a href="mailto:jenngold@insygroup.com">jenngold@insygroup.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Back in Afghanistan</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">January 18, 2012 6:21:39 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:mlucas@radiantblue.com">mlucas@radiantblue.com</a><br></span></div><br><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">Hey Mark,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">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<span style=""> </span>organizing media coverage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">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).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">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 - <a href="x-msg://313/www.kabulinnovationlab.com"><span style="color:blue">www.kabulinnovationlab.com</span></a>.
or circulate it via email :)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/KabulLab"><span style="color:blue">https://twitter.com/#!/search/KabulLab</span></a>
- use @kabulinnovationlab</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kabulinnovationlab"><span style="color:blue">https://www.facebook.com/kabulinnovationlab</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span style="" lang="EN"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kabulinnovationlab"><span style="color:blue"><br></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">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!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="" lang="EN">Jenn</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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