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Letter to Ning , concerning Ning charging for services from May 2010

Hi, I run a non-profit incentive through the Ning platform, to basically
assist in the transformation of Africa and it's people, getting
companies & individual involved to provide technologies which will
help break the digital divide, and ultimately assist in the alleviation
of poverty and disease.

I do not earn a cent of income from this, and it has a huge impact on sociey in and impoverished Africa.

How could Ning, run a free social network, and then out of the blue state
they are going to charge? How would Ning approach the demographics, of
what is non-profit and profit run organisations, which have a good
cause, and who make an impact in our world?

Social network is in the spirit of co-creation, to build a common purpose. Jesus even said
"the poor will always be with us". Why provide a service when not
acknowledging this, they will always be there, and social networking
provides a platform to alleviate this, through common purpose.

I also, sincerely hope and pray that you reconsider your strategy, and
really see that the power of transformation is through the people.

Yours Sincerely

Ian Anderson

Founder (CyberAfrica and the Energising Africa initiative)
CyberAfrica International

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CyberAfrica January 2010 Update in Nigeria - Energizing Africa

My team is in Nigeria now, as we are a bridge for technology businesses between Nigeria and South Africa. I will invite you to LinkedIn and our update site, so you can see what we are up to. Maybe there would be opportunity for my company to research opportunity for you in West Africa. Below was an update which I did 2 days ago.

Things are going really well in Abuja, Nigeria. Really beyond our expectations and what we could have ever imagined.

From arriving, we have been welcomed with open arms, caught up with old established friends, and made many new ones. (maybe bcs I kissed the ground…?(-: )

Nigeria has a hunger for new technologies, as it’s population grows beyond 170 million, the provisioning and enabling of it’s people is priority, from government, to NGO’s, to the private sector. Nigeria has an energy, that one cannot describe, lets say there is this drum beat rolling all the time. The people are energized, and if my timing was right, I would have caught this guy, with 4 different mobile phones in his hand, dressed in a Christian Dior suite, and ready to do business 24/7! He is most probably running 5 different businesses with 10 different caps all from his mobile phones, but this is what I am talking about, they want to make it happen…

The hospital project has grabbed my heart, as the passion of the owner to improve his only UN approved private hospital it is infectious, to make his hospital a beacon of professional health care in Nigeria. CyberAfrica and it’s team look forward to assisting to attain this goal.

For those who do not on members of my. Facebook profile (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/Cyberafrica?ref=name), please view our interactive website http://cyberafrica.ning.com/profile/Cyberafrica for updates on pictures, videos and commentary, whilst on our first leg of our Nigerian journey. If you have not been invited as a member, pls email me, and I will add you.

Look forward to hearing your comments and what you have to say. (-: