Hello, I'm John Powers. I'm also known as Kaunda over at the Bazungu Bucks blog. For several years now I've been corresponding with Magumba Nathan who lives near Iganga, Uganda. Nathan has been instrumental in organizing a community-based organization there called the Busoga Shining Light Association, the BSLA for short.
It's always a struggle to do the right thing; that is to invent just the right effort. Nathan works full-time as well as trying to organize activities and manage the BSLA as the organization's Chair. So most of the time our conversations center around those issues.
For a time the BSLA had static Web pages the BSLA was paying for. There are too many Web pages out there to attract attention, and who needs yet another brochureware page anyway? For a while now, Nathan and I have talked about using a blog for a Web site. It's important to understand that access to the Internet is much more of an effort for the members of the BSLA there in Uganda than it is for people in many other places, even Kampala, Uganda's capital city. So we've been slow to begin a blog.
Recently Dave Winer wrote The Internet as "idea processor" :
The value of writing publicly on the Internet is that you can solve problems quickly, by using a network of people who pool what they know to create something larger. When the Internet works this is why it works.Wow, is he ever right about that. So it's better late than never for the BSLA to start blogging and to make public our network to expand it.
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Hello Nathan and anyone else who stumbles on to this blog! I haven't fooled around with this site very much at all, we can do that as we go along. In fact it will be best if mostly you make the site look the way you in Uganda want it too. I just wanted to get the ball rolling. So let's roll;-)
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