Hi Yosem, Nice to see you here! I've just finished a year working in Africa (Johannesburg and Kampala) building local software development capability The idea is to build up local development ability rather than continuing to allow Africa to be treated as a market to be exploited. Love to hear more about what you're doing. I'm in Australia now, but hoping to head back to Accra sometime within the next year. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts (if any) on how best to do development outside of the Johannesburg/Lagos/Nairobi concentration.
I also spent a year in Bangalore, which is how I came to know most of the folks here. -- Charles On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Caitlin Marinelli < > caitlin.marine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yosem, great to meet you! > > Same here :) > > > I'm from the US originally, but working at a > > company based out of IIT-Madras, called Uniphore, and our focus is > > precisely on one type of 'liberation technology': speech technology. > > This is extremely important, particularly to help preserve the world's > indigenous languages at risk of becoming extinct. But glad to hear that > you are working on its various implications. > > > Happy to chat more about > > it, and would love to learn more about the other liberation technologies > > you're mapping out. > > Feel free to email me privately to discuss further. > > Best, > > Yosem >
