now 6950. I don try.

Thanks. It's not against the rules. It's the number of unique email addresses that count

I don vote. Now 7070

voted.
7100

voted now!
Please share on your social network, most useful for now is FaceBook.

Voted. 7120. Roger that.

Voted, 7140

Voted! 7160!!

7180 done

Voted!

Why is this thread only 3 pages long?If it's a tribalism thread i'm pretty sure we'd be in the double digits by now

7200

Guys , thanks for your votes. We are now at 7180 but have fallen to 16th position.

Help us get to top 10. Let's get to 12000 votes today. Vote and post the number here once you have voted.

- Log on to http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/ideaView?id=08780000000Dcx4AAC

- Click "Register Now" in the top right pane (this is in blue font below the login box).
,
- Choose a username and supply your email address. An email indicating your password will be sent to you as an email.

- Go back to the website and log in with your chosen username and the password mailed to you.

- On the top right corner of the website, search for ‘LAA Agora" and click on Go.

- Just beside the title-Libraries Across Africa- Empowerment through Access, click Vote (a north pointing arrow).

- Click the big blue F at the top to post to your Facebook (if you wish)

can we do multiple voting

sheriffman:

can we do multiple voting

Yes you can only with different email address.

Am on it guys right away

7240 votes, lets go! View and Vote!

I voted +7250

love this innovation, which people like this are here to move africa forward.

Also spread through your networks and get your friends to vote. We need lots more votes!

cold:

Why is this thread only 3 pages long?If it's a tribalism thread i'm pretty sure we'd be in the double digits by now

Abi ooo. Na so our people be.

just voted

just voted! 7480, are yu sure we will get there@ this rate?

Thought I share an idea I had; does anyone share same ?

It's an RFID Research project integrated with biometric applications that I worked on in 2007 for 9 months and dropped it because I did not find any use to it. Now I'm inspired by what I see, does anyone have ideas about the same field?

skalamanga:

just voted! 7480, are yu sure we will get there@ this rate?

i'm not sure u voted

Here is a suggestion; mass emailing depending on how many people on your contact list.

I just sent everyone on my contact list (at work and personal email), a mass email.


SPREAD THE WORD AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE.



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Thu Feb 10 16:33:35 GMT 2011
Team Name : Libraries Across Africa
University : Rice University
Country : United States


Problem

The World Bank believes that one of the greatest problems facing Africa is the severe lack of adequate access to educational, health, and social empowerment information for the majority of Africans. This situation severely restricts and hampers community self-development and is further exacerbated by the yearly decline in global book production as more content and information moves online.
Unless efforts are made to provide the necessary information in education, entrepreneurship, and social development, there will not be sustainable development in Africa.

Vision


http://www.vimeo.com/16103789
Our vision is one of empowerment through access. We aim to empower individuals and communities across Africa by delivering digitally-enhanced multi-use library facilities throughout Africa. Our vision is a modern application of the proven and phenomenally successful ‘Carnegie Formula’ for community development. 

Like Carnegie, LAA envisions that libraries are not merely a repository for books, but they are also a catalyst for community development and empowerment. By providing cost effective infrastructure and information solutions, communities will be empowered to address their own unique economic, educational, social, technological, and business challenges.

We believe that the ability to resolve your own challenges is the foundation of empowerment, and that empowerment is a combination of education and entrepreneurship. Fundamentally, we support the concept that education contributes to poverty reduction and community transformation; and it is entrepreneurship which is the optimum expression of this change.

The Solution

We plan to significantly advance the developmental capabilities of African communities by providing innovative, easily deployable enhanced Library solutions in African communities.
Each library is a streamlined facility for people to participate in both education and entrepreneurship in Africa.

LAA’s libraries are designed to serve both producers and consumers of education and entrepreneurship content.   Rather than simply deliver computers or Internet access, LAA provides a three component solution to the access and information divide.



and then highlight the instructions for them

Log on to http://www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com/ideaView?id=08780000000Dcx4AAC

- Click "Register Now" in the top right pane (this is in blue font below the login box).
,
- Choose a username and supply your email address. An email indicating your password will be sent to you as an email.

- Go back to the website and log in with your chosen username and the password mailed to you.

- On the top right corner of the website, search for ‘LAA Agora" and click on Go.

- Just beside the title-Libraries Across Africa- Empowerment through Access, click Vote (a north pointing arrow).

- Click the big blue F at the top to post to your Facebook (if you wish)


Please, no one should attack me I just feel inspired.

Thanks to all for their support. It's not over until it's over.

Contnue to spread the message and get people to vote.

We are currently in 16th position, but if only 500 more people voted for us, we would be assured of top 10.

Most of the teams in the top 10 only got there in the last 24 hours, and you will notice they mostly have an Indo-Pakistani affiliation; so their people are taking it serious and voting!

Really good idea,I work on e-learning solutions myself. I'll contact you through your website.

Michaeli:

Really good idea,I work on e-learning solutions myself. I'll contact you through your website.

Thanks for the support- you can email idris@librariesacrossafrica.org


Keep on spreading the word, we need all the votes we can get

If you've ever read a post on NL and wondered; "has this poster ever read a book before in their life?" Vote !

If some NL replies make you appreciate the benefits of proper reading comprehension, Vote!

If you've ever been denied the chance to vote by political thugs in your village, revenge here by voting! (hopefully they will find a book and quit thuggery)

If you think your local Naija politician needs to learn how to reason effectively, vote so we can get books to your village before una produce another Blank!

If you believe knowledge empowers, Vote!


Finally, if you think I need to get a life and quit trolling a decent thread, please vote and help me get smarter, we no get library for my village!

Just imagine if every university student could get acces to the latest journal on a reseach topic, if every entrepreneur could look up ways to improve his invention, the possibilities are boundles,

In addition to a strong belief in education, LAA believes in the power of entrepreneurship. A common denominator of African societies is a strong commitment to the survival power of the human spirit. We understand that people are entrepreneurial and are willing to do what they can to meet their communities needs if given the opportunity.

This is our vision of empowerment through access.

This is the opportunity for you to help us achieve our vision!