Cameroon

Thank you everyone who voted for Kabissa Connections on Netsquared to get us into the final 15 and thank you judges who selected us to be among the 5 winning organizations to receive a $5,000 cash prize. I also would like to congratulate the other 4 winners, in particular Agricultural Marketing Information Services in Cameroon and Integrated Electonic Peace Building Project in Kenya which are both very innovative and powerful projects deserving of recognition and support.

A report of the youth and information seminar that was organized by Hope for Youth Network (HOYONet) on Sunday August 1, 2010 at Ngomgham in Mankon-Bamenda in the North West Region of Cameroon.

The seminar started at exactly 11:00 am as planned. The youths were all assembled in the hall and the event started with a word of prayer followed by the Cameroon national anthem.

Ahead of the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup on Friday, former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Africa Progress Panel, Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador and football star Didier Drogba will today publish ‘Scoring for Africa – An Alternative Guide to the World Cup’.

The first in a series of six NetSquared Camps is next Saturday! This event, hosted in Douala, Cameroon, is free to attend and there is still time for you to register! Take a look at the info below and get involved!

Why should it surprise me that a great African saxophonist, known for his economy of notes, should express thoughts on African development with a sublime economy of words?

Here's a link to my recent blog post on Manu Dibango:
http://www.halfheartedfanatic.com/2010/05/statues-die-too.html

When we launched the NetSquared conference in 2005, our premise was simple.  We set out to produce an event that brought together people working in the public and private sector who were interested in the potential of web-based tools and strategies to transform the way entrepreneurial nonprofits and social innovators operate.  The conference, held at Cisco’s headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, brought together around 300 people from foundations, corporate developer networks, and entrepreneurial social innovators working at the intersection of technology and social–change

Dear Members, FAANGO ( Fons Against AIDS-NGO) is looking for donors to help finance the treatment of Mr.Moses TATA, an orphan based in Cameroon and having a terrible skin disease.

We are ready to forward to your attention the pictures showing this skin disease as soon as we get your reaction.

This financial assistance will permit Moses do some Laboratory Tests before proper treatment begins.

2009 has witnessed an increase in the price of paddy rice in Ngoketunjia Division (North West Region of Cameroon) as compared to 2008. A bag of 100 kg paddy rice in 2008 was sold at 10,000 frs CFA, early this year 2009 a bag of 100kg is selling at 15 to 18,000 frs CFA.

The production of rice in the area keeps on reducing as farmers lack financial and technical assistance to increase the rice production within the Division.

The information at our disposal could be used for developmental purposes if well exploited. The ICT is an opportunity for government, private enterprises and individuals to improve upon their services and output.