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Giving to the Web Foundation, and Tax Exempt Status
Visits in Africa
The Web Foundation’s visits to Africa focus on learning how the information technologies are being used, to understand the barriers and opportunities for Web usage, and to connect with people, projects and organizations active in the region.
Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Dardailler of the Web Foundation visited Ghana in September 2009. Tim, Daniel, Stephane Boyera and…
Mobile Web East Africa Conference
I’m glad to see that Matthew Dawes and All Amber are continuing their efforts to promote the Mobile Web in Africa. Last october, i attended and chaired part of Mobile Web Africa which took place in South Africa. This was the first event focusing on this topic in Africa, and this was a real success…
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A last post about this Africa trip, I swear!
First of all, for those who are interested in media (video, photo) I downloaded lots of video and pictures i took, plus links to some materials I collected from others. All these resources are available on a page on my own personal site. We are working to…
Last Day of the trip
November 27 2009: Last day of the trip started November 12!
This day was not part of the professional investigations, but more like a day-off. As flights to Europe are leaving in the evening, we had the day to come back to Entebbe and fly back home, sweet home! Being in Bwindi, it would have…
Fourth Day in Uganda
November 26 2009: the Fourth day! For those who are starting to be bored by the journey of the Web Foundation in East Africa, don’t worry, this is almost the end !
This day was a second day dedicated to field visit. Leaving Bushenyi early in the day, as usual, at 8:00 we headed to Queen…
Third Day in Uganda
November 25 2009: Third day, beginning of the field visit. As always, heavy day ! we left Kampala at 7:30am en route to Bushenyi, to meet with Eric Cantor, and visit Grameen Foundation AppLab . Normal driving time is 5 hours… with car failure, water leaks… more than 7 hours! Fortunately, Uganda is a…
Read MoreSecond Day in Uganda
November 24 2009: The second day in Uganda was supposed to be a bit lighter… but it was not really! We started with a meeting with the Prime Minister at 8:30. Quite interesting. Like in Kenya, there is a huge expectation from the fiber optic being deployed. Like in Kenya too, Tim promoted transparency, and…
Read MoreFirst Day in Uganda
November 23 2009: Our first day in Uganda was quite heavy. We started with a live radio interview for Tim at Sanyu FM at 7:45am! (thanks Reinier for the link to the full interview!). Sanuy FM has a great view over Kampala because it is at the sixth floor of a high building. This is…
Read MoreArrival in Uganda
After these packed three days of meeting in Kenya, we had a free half-day on Sunday morning, enabling us to visit the Nairobi National Park where we met hundreds of beautiful zebras, hundreds of magnificent giraffes, a rhinoceros, and few other interesting animals.
Quite a nice break before moving to five more days in Uganda. However,…