Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!

by HASH on March 21, 2006

White African needs your help. Since so many people have taken an interest in my paper A Technology Idea for Africa, I decided to try and see what would happen if it was put on an even bigger platform. ChangeThis is just such a website:

ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread. We’re on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds. Read more…

As some of you know, I started off my web career in marketing. I figured since I’m being self-promotional here, that I might as well go all the way and create a full viral marketing push. I’ll need 300 votes to be allowed to publish to ChangeThis, so give me a hand and vote if you think others should have a chance to read it. Tell your friends too!

Here are some banner ads, with the corresponding code underneath it, to place them on your blog or in an email:

<a href="http://www.changethis.com/proposals/655"><img src="http://www.zungu.com/images/vote_for_the_africa_network.jpg" width="169" height="49" alt="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" title="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" /></a>

<a href="http://www.changethis.com/proposals/655"><img src="http://www.zungu.com/images/vote_now_banner.jpg" width="400" height="60" alt="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" title="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" /></a>

<a href="http://www.changethis.com/proposals/655"><img src="http://www.zungu.com/images/vote_now_md.jpg" width="169" height="216" alt="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" title="Vote for the African Technology Manifesto!" /></a>

Thanks!

< / end shameless self-promotion >

NOTE: The African user-submitted news aggregator site (Muti) that I frequent just had a hilarious and somewhat misleading title for my manifesto submission at ChangeThis titled, “Digital freedom fighter about to rescue Africa from itself.” I’m not sure what to say about it really – it sounds so dramatic…

technorati tags: african digerati, mobile, african, changethis

{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }

1 JKE 03.21.06 at 11:24 pm: You have my vote, ndugu!
2 thakadu 03.22.06 at 7:51 am: Mine too!
3 Kierke 03.22.06 at 1:07 pm: That’s awesome. I voted.
4 Geekette 03.22.06 at 5:12 pm: Excellent move! I think ChangeThis is the right vehicle for your proposal. I receive their manifesto mailings which appear to have a large and diverse readership.
5 HASH 03.22.06 at 10:23 pm: Thanks for the support! Let your friends know so they can vote too. I have until April 20th, but who knows what will happen with the voting after the first week. It might just die off.
6 Black Looks 03.23.06 at 9:46 am: African Network

White African has come up with a brilliant idea to change how we use technology in Africa and how technology can bring about change for Africans – The African Network. One of the ways of doing this is by using
7 mshairi 03.24.06 at 5:03 am: You have my vote too.
8 Jangbalajugbu 03.24.06 at 8:24 am: I have voted already!
9 Black River Eagle 03.27.06 at 6:28 am: Sounds like a great idea. I voted for your manifesto AND am running your shameless promo (badge) over at my place so you can get even more votes. Does the African Technology Manifesto have a blog or newsletter so that we may keep track of the project?

Thanks Bill, I appreciate it! I’m glad you posted here, since I hadn’t come across your blog before. Good stuff.
10 Robert Bruce 04.07.06 at 10:56 am: Erik,

Tonight you have 139 votes. Keep microbranding mate!
11 White African :: where africa and technology collide » Blog Archive » Voting Time 04.17.06 at 3:43 pm: [...] First, the “Web Technology Idea for Africa” that I’m trying to get published at ChangeThis. I need a strong push to get the 300 votes necessary, so if you think it’s worth having published, please email your friends from the ChangeThis website. I’m sitting right around 160 votes and could really use everyones help to get the second half of the votes needed by this Thursday. [...]
12 abs 05.08.06 at 2:00 pm: hey nice blog and great ideas.

Keep it up, u have some great entries there.

Africa black or white will change for better, those that doubt better rethink now, it wasnt long when people used to walk all over China, now it seems everyone wants to learn some mandarine.
13 Unite Later 07.10.08 at 2:31 am: The view from the worm tank……

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