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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.14648815128020942"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As part of our mission in Africa to make the internet more relevant and useful, we are partnering with tech hubs. Our goal is to enable tech hubs by providing them with technical content, business tools, infrastructure upgrades, so that they can support increasing demand from developers and start-ups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Whether an established tech hub like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110205481031337326623/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub (Kenya)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, or a brand new hub such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112615876665794690066/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;KINU (Tanzania)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, these partners are the technology leaders in their community and a logical home for Google communities such our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Developer Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/landing/gbg/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Business Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;These groups are made up of entrepreneurs, developers and tech enthusiasts who use Google tools to create relevant solutions for themselves and their customers, and to power their businesses. For example, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/olalashe.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Olalashe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, one of the winners of the Africa Android Developer Challenge, was developed by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117773218184307874020/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;David Lemayian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; working out of the iHub.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tech hubs provide a venue for developers and the wider tech community to engage directly with companies and training partners like Google. They host a range of events, workshops, and provide co-working space. Googler &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116452824309856782163/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bob Aman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; holds regular office hours at iHub in Nairobi, and earlier this year Googlers presented at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114986309508249018648/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;CcHub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cchubnigeria.com/developers-parapo-google-and-the-nigerian-techie-in-2012" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Developers Parapo event&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; “Google and the Nigerian Techie in 2012” in Lagos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Developers Parapo event at CcHub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For those unable to attend &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in person, we are working with our hub partners to bring the event live to you. This way, you can still connect with other talented developers and watch the keynote and other major sessions live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; If any of the hubs is in your country, add them to your circle on Google+ and you’ll be updated on attending Google I/O Extended sessions. Thanks to our passionate technology leaders for providing an avenue for us to engage: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/114986309508249018648/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Co Creation Hub (Nigeria)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/113978227755051869240/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ICEAddis (Ethiopia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110205481031337326623/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub (Kenya)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107386916827515908129/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jokko Labs (Senegal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112615876665794690066/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;KINU (Tanzania)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/113416886176315939318/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iLab (Liberia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.14648815128020942"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Johanna Kollar, Program Manager, Emerging Market Start-Up Support&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6661321998108178"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Soutien aux hubs technologiques en Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dans le cadre de notre mission en Afrique - rendre Internet plus pertinent et plus utile a Africains, Google conclut des partenariats avec des hubs technologiques. Notre objectif est de donner aux hubs les moyens de répondre à la demande croissante des développeurs et des start-up, en leur fournissant des contenus techniques, des outils commerciaux, des mises à niveau d'infrastructure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Qu'il s'agisse d'un hub bien établi comme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110205481031337326623/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub (Kenya)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou d'un nouveau hub comme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112615876665794690066/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;KINU (Tanzanie)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, ces partenaires sont les leaders technologiques dans leur communauté et constituent un hébergement logique pour les communautés Google telles que nos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Developer Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et nos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/landing/gbg/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Business Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Ces groupes sont composés d'entrepreneurs, de développeurs et de passionnés de technologie qui se servent des outils Google pour créer des solutions pertinentes pour eux-mêmes et pour leurs clients, et pour dynamiser leur activité. Par exemple, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/olalashe.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Olalashe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, un des lauréats du Challenge des développeurs Android en Afrique, a été développé par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117773218184307874020/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;David Lemayian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; à partir du iHub. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les hubs technologiques fournissent un espace aux développeurs, et plus largement à la communauté technologique, qui leur permet de s'engager directement auprès des entreprises et de partenaires de formation tel Google. Ils hébergent toute une série d'événements, d'ateliers et offrent un espace de travail en commun. Le googler &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116452824309856782163/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bob Aman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; assure des heures de travail régulier au iHub de Nairobi, et, plus tôt cette année, des googlers du &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114986309508249018648/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;CcHub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ont présenté &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cchubnigeria.com/developers-parapo-google-and-the-nigerian-techie-in-2012" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l'événement Parapo des développeurs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, "Google and the Nigerian Techie in 2012", à Lagos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Si vous ne pouvez participer en personne au &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, nous travaillons avec nos hubs partenaires pour que vous puissiez y assister en direct. Ainsi, vous pouvez entrer en contact avec d'autres développeurs de talent et assister en direct au discours d'ouverture et à d'autres sessions de première importance. S'il existe des hubs dans votre pays, ajoutez-les à votre cercle sur Google+ et vous serez tenu informé pour participer au Google I/O Extended. Merci à nos leaders passionnés de technologie de nous ouvrir la voie&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/114986309508249018648/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Co Creation Hub (Nigéria)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/113978227755051869240/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ICEAddis (Éthiopie)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/110205481031337326623/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub (Kenya)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107386916827515908129/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jokko Labs (Sénégal)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112615876665794690066/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;KINU (Tanzanie)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/113416886176315939318/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iLab (Liberia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6661321998108178"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Publié par Johanna Kollar, directrice de programme, support Start-up marchés émergents&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-7486957042266693629?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/v0f4wuRHQrI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7486957042266693629?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7486957042266693629?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/v0f4wuRHQrI/supporting-technology-hubs-in-africa.html" title="Supporting Technology Hubs in Africa" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/05/supporting-technology-hubs-in-africa.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEYMQ3o8eip7ImA9WhVWGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-3208572248574072868</id><published>2012-05-02T21:09:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2012-05-02T21:09:42.472+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-02T21:09:42.472+03:00</app:edited><title>Google Zeitgeist Young Minds from Africa - 2012</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998&amp;amp;pli=1#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.557379727717489"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Earlier this year, we&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/searching-for-creative-young-minds.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;invited&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; creative young minds to apply to be part&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistyoungminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Zeitgeist Young Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, an opportunity for young people to showcase how they are making a positive impact in our world. &amp;nbsp;This year’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-exceptional-young-minds.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;winners have now been&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; named and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;we are very excited to see that of the 10 inspiring young people selected from around the world 5 are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;from Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The young Africans selected were:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ada Umeofia, 19 from Nigeria &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;WeBuilt: Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is a design-centered social enterprise that redesigns and constructs market stalls for poverty-stricken Africans by recycling found building materials in slums.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/m61wCN-Gqgc"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;View the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Joel Mwale, 19 from Kenya &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Skydrop Enterprise Inc &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;has brought safe drinking water to a community of 5,000 and has become a profitable enterprise from selling bottled water across Kenya and Uganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/p9uiAVyB8QQ"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;View the video: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jordan Ridge, 23 from South Africa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Made by Mosaic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is a job creation project for women in South Africa addressing the challenges of economic development in the townships.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/v1w7U8652Kw"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;View the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Sibusiso Tshabalala, 20 from South Africa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Developed reading clubs and a library renovation programme in South Africa to encourage critical thinking and thoughtful debate within local high schools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/wgfZ8-6P_dY"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;View the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Simeon Oriko, 23 from Kenya &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Kuyu Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; trains school children on how to use social media for social change and promotes digital literacy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/4bGBpc4OrkI"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;View the video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We are inspired by these young Africans and look forward to following their progress!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.557379727717489"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Ory Okolloh, Policy and Government Relations Manager Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Google Zeitgeist Young Minds 2012: l'Afrique à l'honneur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Au début de l'année, nous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/searching-for-creative-young-minds.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; avons invité&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; les jeunes créatifs à s'inscrire pour participer aux &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistyoungminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Zeitgeist Young Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, une opportunité pour les jeunes de montrer leur contribution au monde qui nous entoure. Les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-exceptional-young-minds.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;lauréats de cette année sont désormais désignés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, et nous sommes très heureux de constater que sur les dix sélectionnés dans le monde entier, cinq viennent d'Afrique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ada Umeofia, 19 ans, de WeBuilt: Africa (Nigeria)&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, une entreprise sociale axée sur le design qui redessine et construit des stands de marché pour les Africains les plus pauvres, en recyclant des matériaux de construction récupérés dans des bidonvilles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/m61wCN-Gqgc" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Voir la vidéo&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Joel Mwale, 19 ans, de Skydrop Enterprise Inc (Kenya)&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, qui a apporté l'eau potable à une communauté de 5000 personnes et est devenue une entreprise rentable grâce à la vente de bouteilles d'eau au Kenya et en Ouganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/p9uiAVyB8QQ" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Voir la vidéo&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jordan Ridge, 23 ans, de Made by Mosaic (Afrique du Sud)&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, un projet de création d'emploi pour les femmes d'Afrique du Sud en faveur du développement économique dans les townships.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/v1w7U8652Kw" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Voir la vidéo&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Sibusiso Tshabalala, 20 ans, (Afrique du Sud)&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, qui a mis sur pied des clubs de lecture et un programme de rénovation de bibliothèques en Afrique du Sud, dans le but d'encourager la pensée critique et les débats argumentés au sein des établissements secondaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/wgfZ8-6P_dY" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Voir la vidéo&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.19263610057532787"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Simeon Oriko, 23 ans, (Kenya)&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, pour le The Kuyu Project qui forme les élèves à l'utilisation des médias sociaux pour contribuer au changement social, et les aide à maîtriser de l'univers numérique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/4bGBpc4OrkI" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Voir la vidéo:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Enthousiasmés par ces jeunes Africains, nous ne manquerons pas de suivre attentivement leur progrès&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-3208572248574072868?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/gr_er7qnXL8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/3208572248574072868?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/3208572248574072868?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/gr_er7qnXL8/google-zeitgeist-young-minds-from.html" title="Google Zeitgeist Young Minds from Africa - 2012" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/p9uiAVyB8QQ/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-zeitgeist-young-minds-from.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUQER349fip7ImA9WhVWFEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-6518880137488211950</id><published>2012-04-26T20:59:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-26T21:01:46.066+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-26T21:01:46.066+03:00</app:edited><title>Building more African Google+ applications</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.3112074420787394"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In March, in conjunction with 3 Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs), we organized hackathons to help 100 African developers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/falling-in-love-with-google-api.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;build applications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on the Google+ API. The hackathons started in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107215703956182292201/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; at Soliz House, followed by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/100452485013628895886/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114986309508249018648/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Co-Creation Hub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and lastly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117620641470438104052/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112443216246316379308/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.3112074420787394"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The developers also learned about various Google+ features such as hangouts and the hangouts API. &amp;nbsp;In addition to a number of Googlers, we were excited to have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/115264064268941645500/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mattos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, VP of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Product and Engineering for Google Europe, Middle East and Africa, speak at the Lagos Hackathon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Some of the applications were demoed and prizes were given out for the best of them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113118673331717463870/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Peter Kakoma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; won with “Ndongo”. The application allows multiple people to listen to various radio stations while viewing which of their Google+ friends are listening to the same stations. It also allows users to watch videos together, singing along while competing karaoke style! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101522065855804710234/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Oyewale Oyediran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109290360179128795304/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Maxwell Udoba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, built an application called “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101522065855804710234/posts/JtjyTUe75MX"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Life Savers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;”. It is a platform that uses the Public Data API and &amp;nbsp;analyses your mood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102893269167085418665/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Edem Kumordzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; incorporated a SMS client where users could subscribe to a hashtag on Google+ and demoed it live with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; hashtag. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The winners earned brand new Android phones. The “Life Savers” team won tickets to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Hashtag competitions were run during the hackathons to reward creative activities on Google+.&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;African developers like you can now &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101560853443212199687/posts/Jizdrjijt1N"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;distribute hangout apps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; across Google+. Keep on building your app, and if you submit it in the next six weeks via the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Africa website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;you could be featured on the Google+ Developers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110967630299632321627/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+ Page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and the new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/showcase/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Developer showcase page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;For inspiration, updates, photos and more, check out the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;stream on Google+. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.021912321215495467"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;n mars, conjointement avec 3 GTUG (Google Technology User Group), nous avons organisé des hackathons pour aider 100 développeurs africains à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/falling-in-love-with-google-api.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;élaborer des applications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur l'API Google+. Les hackathons ont débuté à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107215703956182292201/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; à la Soliz House, et se sont poursuivies à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/100452485013628895886/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; au &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114986309508249018648/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Co-Creation Hub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour s'achever à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117620641470438104052/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; au &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112443216246316379308/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.021912321215495467"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les développeurs ont également appris à se servir des différentes fonctions de Google+ telles que les hangouts et leurs API. &amp;nbsp;Outre de nombreux Googlers, nous avons été très heureux d'accueillir &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/115264064268941645500/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mattos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Vice-président &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Produits et Ingénierie pour Google Europe, Moyen-Orient et Afrique, qui est intervenu au Hackathon de Lagos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous avons vu tourner quelques applications en démonstration. Et des prix ont été attribués aux meilleures d'entre elles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113118673331717463870/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Peter Kakoma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a été récompensé pour “Ndongo”. L'application permet à plusieurs personnes d'écouter différentes stations de radio tout en regardant qui parmi ses amis Google+ écoute la même station. Il permet aussi de regarder des vidéos à plusieurs, en chantant en même temps, comme pour un vrai karaoké&amp;nbsp;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101522065855804710234/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Oyewale Oyediran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109290360179128795304/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Maxwell Udoba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, ont développé une application appelée “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101522065855804710234/posts/JtjyTUe75MX"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Life Savers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;”. Il s'agit d'une plate-forme qui exploite l'API Public Data et analyse vos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;habitudes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102893269167085418665/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Edem Kumordzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a intégré un client SMS dans lequel les utilisateurs peuvent s'abonner à un hashtag sur Google+. Il en a présenté une démonstration live avec le hashtag &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.021912321215495467"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les lauréats ont reçu des téléphones Android de marque. L'équipe "Life Savers” a gagné des billets pour &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Les compétitions hashtag ont eu lieu au cours des hackathons pour récompenser les activités créatives sur Google+.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.021912321215495467"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les développeurs africains comme vous peuvent désormais &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101560853443212199687/posts/Jizdrjijt1N"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;distribuer les applis &amp;nbsp;hangout&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Google+. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Continuez à construire votre appli et, si vous la soumettez dans les six semaines à venir via le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;site Google Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;votre appli pourra être exposée sur la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110967630299632321627/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+ Page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ou le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; des développeurs Google+ et sur la nouvelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/showcase/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;page vitrine des développeurs Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Pour rechercher de l'inspiration, des mises à jour, des photos, etc., consultez le flux &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;sur Google+. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.3685092858504504" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Last week we announced that more than 170 million people have signed up to Google+, enjoying new ways of sharing the right things with just the right people. If you haven’t already,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/up/start/?continue=https://plus.google.com/&amp;amp;type=st&amp;amp;gpcaz=93d675e8" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;sign-up and try Google+ yourself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;On &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+, you can use circles to easily manage who you share with, ensuring your boss won’t see your party pics and your friends are not bored with you sharing work-related news articles. You can also easily share in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Search, Gmail, YouTube and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/better/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1c52ba; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;lots of other places&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For photos, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ gives you unlimited storage at no charge. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;And you can video-chat face to face with up to 9 people at once, using Hangouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We wanted to ensure that Google+ is also available at times &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;when you are not connected to the internet. So that you can still keep up with friends and share on Google+, regardless of where you are or what kind of device you're on, so we've introduced &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/landing/+/sms/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ SMS features&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. This means that you can post updates , receive notifications and reply to them via SMS. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;a) Post your updates to Google+ via SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;b) Receive SMS notifications &amp;amp; reply to them over SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/z9KfhgLa_ACEhrhOTakRbnCZDYMSTYiA4SLLe6QVJgx9Pd_r-YpKlwUb8KUUMeLTliQQAFMoPFpSvNx43XOMLyexbYL3wONU1Gn5XpojXglU8a7AMSg" width="189" /&gt;&lt;img height="155" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/vdaxq4tjBDlAkI50odLSbq37u7XS7DuMYwaF83tg21aIo3fQ_khyVVzO4UXEfHUbSOB4o6wk0QmXEOvP_zZ9iP_6RQTI9eA8k0s8-LDeAk8vkCssPMk" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To get started, activate your phone number on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/settings/plus" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ settings page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=1304917&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;ctx=topic" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Supported mobile operators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;When Google+ launched in June last year, SMS features were available only in India and the US. Today we’re pleased to announce the expansion of Google+ SMS to 41 new countries:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo (DRC), Cote D'Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=1304917&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;ctx=topic" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Supported mobile operators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.3685092858504504"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;Anat. S. Amir, Head of Marketing, Google Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6518101654946804" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Partagez et restez en contact avec vos amis sur Google+ par SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La semaine dernière, nous avons annoncé que plus de 170 millions de personnes se sont inscrites sur Google+ et peuvent désormais partager ce qu'elles veulent avec les personnes de leur choix. Si ce n'est déjà fait&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/up/start/?continue=https://plus.google.com/&amp;amp;type=st&amp;amp;gpcaz=93d675e8" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;inscrivez-vous et découvrez Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Sur Google+, vous pouvez définir des cercles pour gérer facilement les personnes avec qui partager&amp;nbsp;: votre patron ne va pas découvrir les grands moments de vos dernières soirées et vos amis ne seront pas encombrés par des infos concernant votre travail. Vous pouvez aussi facilement partager sur Search, Gmail, YouTube et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/better/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1c52ba; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;bien d'autres applications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #545659; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour les photos, Google+ vous offre un espace de stockage illimité gratuit. Et vous pouvez ouvrir un chat vidéo face à face avec jusqu'à 9&amp;nbsp;interlocuteurs simultanément, via Hangouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous voulions que Google+ soit disponible même lorsque vous n'êtes pas connecté à Internet. Pour que vous puissiez rester en contact et partager avec vos amis sur Google+, où que vous soyez et quel que soit l'appareil que vous utilisez, nous avons développé des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/landing/+/sms/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;fonctionnalités SMS pour Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Ce qui signifie que vous pouvez publier des mises à jour, recevoir des notifications et y répondre par SMS. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour commencer, activez votre numéro de téléphone sur la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;hlrm=en&amp;amp;ctx=topic&amp;amp;answer=1304917" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;page de paramètres de Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=1304917&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;ctx=topic" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Opérateurs mobiles pris en charge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=2428431&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;ctx=topic" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=2428431&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;ctx=topic" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lorsque Google+ a été lancé en juin l'année dernière, les fonctionnalités SMS n'étaient disponibles qu'en Inde et aux États-Unis. Aujourd'hui, nous avons le plaisir d'annoncer l'extension de Google+ SMS à 41 autres pays&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afghanistan, Algérie, Angola, Bahrein, Bénin, Cambodge, Cameroun, Congo (RDC), Côte d'ivoire, Égypte, Ghana, Guinée, Indonésie, Irak, Israël, Jordanie, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Koweit, Kirghizstan, Libéria, Malawi, Malaisie, Maldives, Maroc, Mozambique, Niger, Nigéria, Pakistan, Philippines, Arabie Saoudite, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Tanzanie, Thaïlande, Tunisie, Ouganda, Ouzbékistan, Vietnam, Zambie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&amp;amp;topic=1304843&amp;amp;hlrm=en&amp;amp;ctx=topic&amp;amp;answer=1304917" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Opérateurs mobiles pris en charge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6518101654946804"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"&gt;Anat. S. Amir, Head of Marketing, Google Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-1139825081372421027?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/E2u_Hm8Of_Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1139825081372421027?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1139825081372421027?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/E2u_Hm8Of_Q/share-and-keep-up-with-friends-on.html" title="Share and keep up with Friends on Google+ via SMS" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/04/share-and-keep-up-with-friends-on.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Dk4CRHkyeSp7ImA9WhVWEkg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-7011289494804947866</id><published>2012-04-24T11:05:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-24T11:09:25.791+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-24T11:09:25.791+03:00</app:edited><title>African Developers Finding Success With Google Technologies</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.742052715504542"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Creating applications and services that use Google platforms to make the internet more relevant to Africans is a big part of Google’s vision in Africa. This is why we are always excited whenever we come across individuals or companies whose efforts are in line with this vision. Here are a few of the interesting applications we have seen in recent months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/battabox.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Battabox&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, co founded by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117354148518771892978/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Christian Purefoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and Yemisi Ilo, is an online social television platform developed in Nigeria that aims to provide everything Nigerian from music, film, street-life to news, comedy and cooking using the YouTube platform. Crowdsourcing videos is an important part of the Battabox strategy and they were able to achieve this using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/ytdirect" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;YouTube Direct&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; running on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google App Engine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; integrated into their website. They also provided an Android App that enables users upload videos directly from their Android phones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;There are many other examples from further afield. In South Africa we met &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nomanini.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nomanini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; who have a Google App Engine backend for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/lula.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, their airtime vending device, which promises to change the way airtime is distributed in the region. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/envaya.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Envaya SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is an amazing application that turns your Android phone into an SMS gateway and has been used by many NGOs in East Africa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/flexisaf.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;SAF SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is a school management solution built with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Web Toolkit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; that has been adopted in more than 100 schools in Nigeria. We also met &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/serengeti.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Serengeti Advisers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, a consultancy firm in Tanzania that uses &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/apis/chart/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Chart Tools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to create interactive reports on their website.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As part of our drive to meet and interact with app developers in Africa, our Android Developer Relations team also recently hosted the developers of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/afrinolly.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;AfriNolly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pledge51.nigerianconstitution" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigerian Constitution Android app&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on their weekly Android DevRel office hours &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVFdmVudBiZmx4M/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;hangout on Google+ for Europe, Middle East and Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. At the hangout, these African developers shared information about their apps with other Android developers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;You can follow the exploits of these and more developers in Sub Saharan Africa as they continue to make things happen with Google APIs and platforms by keeping an eye on our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;case studies page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Do you feel your app should be featured here? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/gafricashare/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Let us know!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Program Manager Sub Saharan Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.49201495712623"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Un des grands défis que s'est lancé Google en Afrique est de créer des applications et services utilisant les plates-formes Google pour rendre Internet plus pertinent pour les Africains. C'est pourquoi nous sommes toujours ravis de rencontrer des personnes et des entreprises dont les efforts vont dans le sens de cette ambition. Voici quelques-unes des applications qui ont retenu notre attention au cours des derniers mois.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.49201495712623"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/battabox.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Battabox&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, co-fondé par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117354148518771892978/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Christian Purefoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et Yemisi Ilo, est une plate-forme de télévision sociale en ligne, développée au Nigéria, qui vise à proposer du contenu nigérian - musique, film, infos, comédie, cuisine - via la plate-forme YouTube. Le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;crowdsourcing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;des vidéos est une part importante de la stratégie de Battabox&amp;nbsp;: ils y sont parvenus en utilisant &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/ytdirect" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;YouTube Direct&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/appengine/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google App Engine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; intégré sur leur site. Ils ont également fourni une appli Android qui permet aux internautes de télécharger des vidéos directement depuis leur téléphone Android.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Il y a de nombreux autres exemples à découvrir. En Afrique du Sud, nous avons rencontré &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nomanini.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nomanini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; qui dispose d'un back-end de Google App Engine pour &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/lula.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, son dispositif de vente de temps de communication sur mobile, qui va changer la manière de distribuer le temps de communication dans la région. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/envaya.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Envaya SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; est une étonnante application qui transforme un téléphone Android en une passerelle SMS. Elle a été utilisée par plusieurs ONG en Afrique de l'Est. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/flexisaf.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;SAF SMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; est une solution de gestion d'école élaborée avec &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Web Toolkit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, qui a été adoptée dans plus d'une centaine d'écoles au Nigéria. Nous avons également rencontré &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/serengeti.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Serengeti Advisers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, une société de conseil en Tanzanie qui exploite les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/apis/chart/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Chart Tools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour créer des analyses interactives sur leur site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dans le cadre de notre politique de rencontre et d'échanges avec les développeurs d'applis en Afrique, notre équipe Relations avec les développeurs Android a également accueilli récemment les développeurs de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/afrinolly.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;AfriNolly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et du &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pledge51.nigerianconstitution"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigerian Constitution Android app&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; lors du hangout hebdomadaire Android DevRel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVFdmVudBiZmx4M/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;sur Google+ pour l'Europe, le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Au cours du hangout, ces développeurs africains ont partagé des informations sur leurs applis avec d'autres développeurs Android.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous pouvez suivre leurs exploits et ceux d'autres développeurs d'Afrique sub-saharienne, qui continuent à donner corps à leurs projets avec les API et les plates-formes Google en consultant régulièrement notre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;page Études de cas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pensez-vous que votre appli devrait y figurer&amp;nbsp;? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/gafricashare/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Faites-le nous savoir&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.49201495712623"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Chukwuemeka Afigbo, directeur de programme, Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-7011289494804947866?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/HRbCgyMPBKc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7011289494804947866?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7011289494804947866?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/HRbCgyMPBKc/african-developers-finding-success-with.html" title="African Developers Finding Success With Google Technologies" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/04/african-developers-finding-success-with.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0UGQ34zcSp7ImA9WhVXFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1534412011966693460</id><published>2012-04-16T10:00:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-16T11:33:42.089+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-16T11:33:42.089+03:00</app:edited><title>Maps &amp; Graphs - Do more with Search in Kenya</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.5469107346143574"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Around this time last year, together with the National Council for Law Reporting, we brought an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=1qfqWJRmV28C&amp;amp;dq=kenya+gazettes&amp;amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;amp;cad=1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;unprecedented archive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; of public government documents online, into Google Books. &amp;nbsp;We are excited to make two more announcements related to Open Data in Kenya: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As part of delivering the best possible Maps experience to you, we've been hard at work improving the content on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Now, over 31,000 primary and 6,900 secondary schools are searchable within &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; for Kenya. &amp;nbsp;Having layer of educational points of interest online adds value to the user: mapped schools are critical for urban development, navigation, and logistical planning by the electoral bodies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;A search for schools on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; would give you the results below before and after.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;img height="210" src="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/drawings/image?id=s9CYFZfLFgT1iR2Gn5IxewQ&amp;amp;w=710&amp;amp;h=375&amp;amp;rev=114&amp;amp;ac=1" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;An example search for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/maps?q=primary+schools,+nairobi&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sll=-1.482989,37.803955&amp;amp;sspn=7.2218,11.634521&amp;amp;hq=primary+schools,&amp;amp;hnear=Nairobi,+Nairobi+Province&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;fll=-1.268131,36.827545&amp;amp;fspn=0.451701,0.727158&amp;amp;z=11" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; primary schools in Nairobi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on Google Maps now gives users far richer experience. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If your school is not on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, you can add it using&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Map Maker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, a tool that allows you to add and update geographic information for millions of users to see in Google Maps and Google Earth. &amp;nbsp;By sharing information about the places you know, like businesses in your town, or places in your school campus, you can ensure the maps accurately reflects the world around you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Graphs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Typically, government data is found in dense tables, printed in booklets only available once or twice a year, from a single remote office. &amp;nbsp;We are excited that a partnership and training workshop held with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.knbs.or.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya National Bureau of Statistics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; will help alleviate this in a small but powerful way. &amp;nbsp;21 metrics are now live in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory#!q=kenya" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Public Data Explorer Directory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and we look forward to more soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This means businesses, researchers, students or journalists anywhere in the world can now bring data to life through visualization, easily draw comparisons with other datasets and share them online. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For example by comparing household ownership of cars, mobile phones, and with televisions, you can easily find out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=d&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=households_pct&amp;amp;fdim_y=assets:car_truck_tuk+tuk&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=district:101,04&amp;amp;ifdim=district&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1232838000000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;constituencies or counties with the highest disposable income&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. But did you know that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=d&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=disability_population_pct&amp;amp;fdim_y=disability_type:hearing&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=province:6&amp;amp;ifdim=province&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1232838000000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nyanza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; have the highest rate of disability for nearly all disability categories? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For those looking for deeper insights, check out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=m&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=o&amp;amp;nselm=h&amp;amp;met_s=amount_spent&amp;amp;scale_s=lin&amp;amp;ind_s=false&amp;amp;met_c=amount_spent&amp;amp;scale_c=lin&amp;amp;ind_c=false&amp;amp;ifdim=constituency&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1043449200000&amp;amp;xMax=40.64406614401253&amp;amp;xMin=32.32741575338753&amp;amp;yMax=-2.566462449385327&amp;amp;yMin=1.508432331785532&amp;amp;mapType=t&amp;amp;icfg&amp;amp;iconSize=0.5" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;how is money spent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in constituencies over time. &amp;nbsp;By pressing the play button, you’ll notice "Kitui South" bubble (CDF spending) grew relatively rapidly from 2006-2008. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Go ahead and give it a&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; spin!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To investigate what the money was spent on in 2007, narrow down to see the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=o&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=amount_spent&amp;amp;fdim_y=constituency:65&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=sector:education&amp;amp;ifdim=sector&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1043449200000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;breakdown by sector&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We'd like to thank the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendata.go.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya Open Data Initiative&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ict.go.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya ICT Board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.knbs.or.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Bureau of Statistics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; for their support in helping make information that was once locked in print-only format a lot more accessible and useful to online citizens, for free. &amp;nbsp;It is an illustration of the sort of win-win that can come out of data sharing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.5469107346143574"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jacqueline Rajuai, GIS Specialist and Denis Gikunda, Content &amp;amp; Localization Programs, Google Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.16205721907317638"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;Cartes et Graphiques - Plus d’informations accessibles au Kenya grâce à la fonction Recherche &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;À cette époque l’année dernière, en coopération avec le National Council for Law Reporting, nous avons mis en ligne dans Google Livres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=1qfqWJRmV28C&amp;amp;dq=kenya+gazettes&amp;amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;amp;cad=1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;des archives sans précédent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de documents publics.&amp;nbsp;Aujourd’hui, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer deux avancées concernant les Données ouvertes au Kenya&amp;nbsp;: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Cartes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afin de vous offrir un service de qualité optimale en matière de consultation de cartes, nous nous efforçons d’améliorer le contenu de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Ce sont aujourd’hui plus de 31&amp;nbsp;000 écoles primaires et 6&amp;nbsp;900 établissements secondaires kenyans que l’on peut retrouver sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. La mise en ligne de données complémentaires sur l’offre éducative présente un réel intérêt pour l’utilisateur dans la mesure où l’implantation des écoles est essentielle pour l’aménagement urbain, la navigation et la planification logistique par les corps électoraux.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Si votre école n’apparaît pas sur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, vous pouvez l’ajouter en utilisant la fonction &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Map Maker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, outil qui vous permet d’ajouter et d’actualiser des informations géographiques consultables par des millions d’utilisateurs sur Google Maps et Google Earth. En partageant des informations sur les lieux que vous connaissez, comme votre campus ou les entreprises installées dans votre ville, &amp;nbsp;vous avez la garantie que les cartes reflètent avec précision le monde qui vous entoure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Graphiques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Généralement les données publiques sont consignées dans des tableaux denses et imprimées dans des rapports publiés uniquement une ou deux fois par an par un service unique difficilement accessible. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Nous nous réjouissons qu’un partenariat et un atelier de formation avec le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.knbs.or.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bureau national kenyan de la statistique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; nous permettent de remédier à cette situation, de manière simple et efficace. 21 indicateurs sont désormais en ligne dans &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory#!q=kenya" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l’Annuaire des données publiques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, et nous espérons en intégrer davantage prochainement. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Partout dans le monde, les entreprises, les chercheurs, les étudiants ou les journalistes peuvent ainsi visualiser des données, effectuer facilement des comparaisons avec d’autres ensembles de données et les partager en ligne. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Par exemple, en comparant le nombre de ménages qui possèdent des voitures, des téléphones portables et des téléviseurs, vous pouvez facilement savoir quels sont &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=d&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=households_pct&amp;amp;fdim_y=assets:car_truck_tuk+tuk&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=district:101,04&amp;amp;ifdim=district&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1232838000000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;les circonscriptions ou les comtés bénéficiant des revenus disponibles les plus élevés&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Mais saviez-vous que la province de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=d&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=disability_population_pct&amp;amp;fdim_y=disability_type:hearing&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=province:6&amp;amp;ifdim=province&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1232838000000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nyanza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; présente le taux de handicap le plus élevé dans la quasi-totalité des catégories&amp;nbsp;de handicap&amp;nbsp;? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour ceux qui souhaitent affiner leurs recherches, consultez la rubrique &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=m&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=o&amp;amp;nselm=h&amp;amp;met_s=amount_spent&amp;amp;scale_s=lin&amp;amp;ind_s=false&amp;amp;met_c=amount_spent&amp;amp;scale_c=lin&amp;amp;ind_c=false&amp;amp;ifdim=constituency&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1043449200000&amp;amp;xMax=40.64406614401253&amp;amp;xMin=32.32741575338753&amp;amp;yMax=-2.566462449385327&amp;amp;yMin=1.508432331785532&amp;amp;mapType=t&amp;amp;icfg&amp;amp;iconSize=0.5" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;postes de dépenses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; dans les différentes circonscriptions, sur plusieurs années. En appuyant sur la touche de lecture, vous remarquerez que «&amp;nbsp;Kitui South&amp;nbsp;» (dépenses consacrées au CDF) a enregistré une progression relativement rapide entre 2006 et 2008. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Essayez&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour connaître à quels postes l’argent a été affecté en 2007, réduisez le champ pour faire apparaître la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=mghi4oirfarh9_&amp;amp;ctype=c&amp;amp;strail=false&amp;amp;bcs=o&amp;amp;nselm=s&amp;amp;met_y=amount_spent&amp;amp;fdim_y=constituency:65&amp;amp;scale_y=lin&amp;amp;ind_y=false&amp;amp;idim=sector:education&amp;amp;ifdim=sector&amp;amp;tunit=Y&amp;amp;pit=1043449200000&amp;amp;icfg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;répartition par secteur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous tenons à remercier l’ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opendata.go.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Initiative Données ouvertes au Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ict.go.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Conseil kenyan des TIC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ainsi que le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.knbs.or.ke/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bureau national de la statistique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour leur contribution qui a permis de faciliter l’accès à des informations utiles qui étaient auparavant uniquement disponibles au format papier. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;C’est une illustration du type de solution gagnant-gagnant permise par le partage de données.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.16205721907317638"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jacqueline Rajuai, &amp;nbsp;spécialiste GIS et Denis Gikunda, responsable programmes de contenu et de localisation, Google Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-1534412011966693460?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/VZCsN4P-IiI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1534412011966693460?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1534412011966693460?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/VZCsN4P-IiI/maps-graphs-do-more-with-search-in.html" title="Maps &amp; Graphs - Do more with Search in Kenya" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/04/maps-graphs-do-more-with-search-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkMGQnkyfyp7ImA9WhVXEEg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1887132299803659054</id><published>2012-04-10T13:40:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-10T13:40:23.797+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-10T13:40:23.797+03:00</app:edited><title>Nigerian Celebs and Brands Storm Google+</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.7005076680798084"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;There are over 100 million active users on Google+ and a number of Nigerian celebrities and brands have joined the ranks. When searching for people to add to your circles from the Nigerian, &amp;nbsp;music and entertainment scene you will find the likes of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/112683292835736029082/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bez Idakalu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117629865695547095831/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dare-Art Alade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/116587376151924217410/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dr Sid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103453226758320664003/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Genevieve Nnaji&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/106890436274093401231/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jesse Jagz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/109366300014961315115/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mo Eazy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/102604042479181587199/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Naeto C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, who have joined many other global celebs on Google+. You can also find Nigerian brands like &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/115269286290470483540/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;AIRTEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103979327770959264913/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;GLO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on Google+.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To ensure you are following the right celeb or brand, we created the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;verified name badge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. With this badge, we let you know the real celeb’s page. The red circle shows the verified name badge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="170" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6DWB0LKLOewB8tFF0f37nGgDL9gTOerRY12LjGBC6roLMIg43_Y_ga4sY7Fh6yYObovs9zslE8Ao1PRhwwOJXa6jteangNonLMefg4geTz3_dgD2NPI" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ makes connecting to your favourite celebs like connecting with them in the real world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;With Google+, you can enjoy maximum interaction with your favorite celeb, and be the first to get updates on a new music or video release, a planned event or a concert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Why not use all these Google+ features to keep-up with the celebrities or brand you love? New to Google Plus? You can find all the help you need &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.7005076680798084"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Affiong Bassey, Country Marketing Manager, Google Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.107582020573318"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les célébrités &amp;nbsp;et les marques nigérianes débarquent sur Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.107582020573318"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Il y a plus de 100 millions d'internautes actifs sur Google+ et de nombreuses célébrités et marques ont rejoint leurs rangs. Lorsque vous cherchez à ajouter à vos cercles des personnalités de la scène musicale et de divertissement nigériane, vous tomberez sur les pages de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/112683292835736029082/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Bez Idakalu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117629865695547095831/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dare-Art Alade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/116587376151924217410/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dr Sid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103453226758320664003/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Genevieve Nnaji&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/106890436274093401231/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jesse Jagz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/109366300014961315115/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mo Eazy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/102604042479181587199/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Naeto C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, qui ont rejoint de nombreuses stars internationales sur Google+. Vous pouvez aussi trouver les pages des marques nigérianes telles que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/115269286290470483540/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;AIRTEL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/103979327770959264913/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;GLO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Google+.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour vérifier que vous suivez bien la star ou la marque souhaitée, nous avons créé le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;badge "nom vérifié"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Avec ce badge, nous vous indiquons la véritable page de la star. Le cercle rouge signale le badge "nom vérifié".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ vous fait rencontrer votre vedette préférée comme vous le feriez dans la vraie vie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Avec Google+, vous bénéficiez d'un maximum d'interactions avec votre star favorite, et vous serez le premier à recevoir les nouvelles sur la parution de nouvelle musique ou vidéo, ou sur un événement ou un concert prévu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pourquoi ne pas profiter de toutes ces fonctions Google+ pour rester en contact avec les célébrités ou les marques que vous aimez&amp;nbsp;? Novice sur Google Plus&amp;nbsp;? Vous disposez de toute l'aide utile &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Publié par Affiong Bassey, Responsable Marketing Pays, Google Nigéria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-1887132299803659054?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/9FjivH9hlrs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1887132299803659054?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1887132299803659054?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/9FjivH9hlrs/nigerian-celebs-and-brands-storm-google.html" title="Nigerian Celebs and Brands Storm Google+" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/04/nigerian-celebs-and-brands-storm-google.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkEGRn0_eCp7ImA9WhVQFUs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-8791803346097786713</id><published>2012-04-04T21:21:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-04T21:37:07.340+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-04T21:37:07.340+03:00</app:edited><title>Joignez-vous à nous pour g|Sénégal et g|Côte d'Ivoire!</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;In English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.47774566407315433" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Depuis le début de l’année, nous nous sommes focalisés sur le tissage de liens avec les communautés locales, le partage des connaissances et de notre passion des produits Google. Aussi bien sur le terrain que lors des conférences en ligne via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Portés par l’enthousiasme généré par nos événements en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.de/2012/01/join-us-for-first-ever-gtanzania-and.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afrique de l'Est&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.de/2012/02/next-stop-for-gday-train-nigeria-and.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afrique de l'Ouest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;anglophone, nous sommes heureux d'annoncer notre passage en mai à Dakar pour g|Sénégal et à Abidjan pour g|Côte d'Ivoire !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.47774566407315433"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Cette année, g|Sénégal comportera davantage de sessions pratiques de codage pour les développeurs chevronnés, ainsi que plus de séances sur les nouvelles technologies Google, tout comme des exemples basés sur des succès d’entrepreneurs locaux - peut-être est-ce &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;votre tour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ! Nous espérons que vous pourrez échanger, agrandir votre réseau et partager vos connaissances. Joignez vous à nous pour g|Sénégal [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] les 9 et 10 mai 2012 à la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/event-location"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Place du Souvenir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.47774566407315433"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour les développeurs expérimentés, le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107348863310258936561/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Technology User Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de Dakar organise un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hackathon sur les API Google+ afin d’aider les développeurs à créer des applications basées sur cette plateforme. Si vous êtes intéressé à y participer, indiquez votre intérêt pour ce hackathon lors de votre inscription à la journée Développeurs de g|Sénégal, et nous vous enverrons davantage d’informations ultérieurement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour notre tout premier g|Côte d'Ivoire, nous sommes ravis de faire partie de cette vague d’énergie pendant cette ère de reconstruction, et d’apprendre à mieux connaitre les développeurs et les entreprises locales. La conférence sera centrée sur la création d’applications innovantes et sur l’aide à la communauté des affaires, d’ores et déjà en forte croissance, afin qu’elle soit davantage en ligne. Venez participer à g|Côte d'Ivoire [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gcotedivoire2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gcotedivoire2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; les 14 et 15 mai 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire rapidement pour ces événements gratuits, le mois de mai arrive à grands pas ! N'oubliez pas non plus de vous &amp;nbsp;joindre aux conversations autour de g|Sénégal et g|Côte d'Ivoire sur Google+ en utilisant les hashtags de l’événement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gsenegal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gsenegal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gcotedivoire"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gcotedivoire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tidjane Deme, Office Lead, Google Afrique Francophone et Melina Mattos, chef de projets, Google Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #783f04; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Join us for g|Senegal and g|Cote d’Ivoire!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.47774566407315433"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This year so far has been about creating connections with local communities and resharing our knowledge and love for Google products either offline in our conferences or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;online with Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. With the success we've had with our conferences in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.de/2012/01/join-us-for-first-ever-gtanzania-and.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;East&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.de/2012/02/next-stop-for-gday-train-nigeria-and.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;West Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, we are excited to announce that in May we are coming to Dakar for g|Senegal and Abidjan for g|Cote d’Ivoire!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This year’s g|Senegal will have more hands-on coding sessions for more experienced developers, more sessions on new Google technology, and more local success stories--perhaps you will be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/gafrica/success.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;featured&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;! &amp;nbsp;Join us for g|Senegal [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] on 9 and 10 May at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gsenegal2012/event-location"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Place du Souvenir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For advanced developers, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107348863310258936561/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dakar Google Technology User Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (GTUG) is holding a Google+ Hackathon to help developers build applications on the Google+ API. If you are interested in joining, please flag your interest when applying for g|Senegal Developer Day and we will send you more information at a later date.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For our first ever g|Cote d’Ivoire, we are excited to take part of the vibrant energy in this era of rebuilding. &amp;nbsp;The event will focus on building innovative applications and helping the fast-growing business community come online. Sign up for g|Cote d’Ivoire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gcotedivoire2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gcotedivoire2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] on 14 and 15 May.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Remember to register early for these free events because May is just around the corner. Don’t forget to join the conversation about g|Senegal and g|Cote d’Ivoire on Google+ using the event hashtags &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gsenegal"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gsenegal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gcotedivoire"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gcotedivoire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.47774566407315433"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tidjane Deme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Lead Francophone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Africa and Melina Mattos, Program Manager, Google Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.2876447248272598"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;As more and more people start using the internet in Sub-Saharan Africa, it becomes ever more important to understand the online population.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Over the past two years, Google has been working with market research firm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.basisresearch.co.uk/2011/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Basis Research Ltd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to understand people's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;behaviors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and attitudes when it comes to the internet. &amp;nbsp;We interviewed over 13,000 people in urban centres of 6 key African countries - Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda - to understand how and why people use the internet, what prevents non-users from coming online, and much more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;After completing the study, we wanted to make sure that this data was publicly accessible, easy-to-understand, and to ensure that website visitors could focus on the information that is most useful to them. &amp;nbsp;That's why we've created filters for country, age, gender and internet usage level, which you can select with just a click.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="279" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/igYEwaTvJfOkVuMIa7x2G8NIs4H3tcNPnau9ezLMgrn3aTdEvBy20ksTnsmmxJCqjQ55QTWGeSuvG80UmfA3CY4tEP6viZTqIuUA-MJMf7VBoki3ok8" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=home" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.insightsafrica.com)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is a free, publicly available tool which anyone can visit to explore online penetration rates, understand usage patterns amongst the online population, and learn about the barriers to coming online. &amp;nbsp;Through InsightsAfrica, you can learn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Drivers+%26+Barriers+for+Internet+Usage&amp;amp;qid=54032&amp;amp;filter=Kenya,Women,16-24" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;what would encourage young Kenyan women to come online more often via mobile phone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Internet+Connection+Location&amp;amp;qid=52033&amp;amp;filter=Senegal,Men,All-Age%3BSenegal,Men,16-24%3B" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;locations where Senegalese men most often access the internet via their computer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Internet+Session+Length&amp;amp;qid=52034&amp;amp;filter=South+Africa,Men" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;how long South African men spend online via mobile during an average session&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Interest+%26+Awareness+in+Online+Content&amp;amp;qid=57038&amp;amp;filter=Ghana%3BNigeria%3BUganda%3B" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;the awareness of online activities amongst non-users in Ghana, Uganda, and Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and much more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="268" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Kh-4EufIZ45liH8Hj_DIIFz61KIVFnxdD0DK4VBGw-xJ0DJCPcS3s-KnZ1ZALQB86ViekYo6S6wR90nLgIKFc2Qt98Fq7MePkoWXc7QgzbJgFIBPeOo" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To create your own customized dataset, simply access &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, select a category from either the top drop-down menu or by hovering over the multi-coloured icons. &amp;nbsp;Once you are viewing a particular category of information, you can use the lefthand menu to focus on specific demographic groups, change the layout of the graphs or download, save and share your graphs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsmena.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; helps you understand the growing power of the internet in Africa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Karina Przyjemski, Research Manager, Market Insights, Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mieux connaître l'usage d'Internet en Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.19826187752187252"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les internautes d'Afrique sub-saharienne étant de plus en plus nombreux, il devient plus important que jamais de connaître la population en ligne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.19826187752187252"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;En collaboration avec le cabinet d'études&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.basisresearch.co.uk/2011/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Basis Research Ltd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, Google explore depuis deux ans les comportements et attitudes des internautes pour mieux les comprendre. Nous avons interviewé plus de 13&amp;nbsp;000 habitants de centres urbains de six grands pays d'Afrique (Ghana, Kenya, Nigéria, Sénégal, Afrique du Sud et Ouganda) pour comprendre entre autres comment et pourquoi les internautes utilisent Internet et ce qui empêche les non-internautes d'aller sur la toile.

Nous avons voulu rendre les résultats de l'étude, une fois terminée, accessibles à tous, faciles à comprendre et pratiques à consulter pour les visiteurs du site en fonction de leurs recherches. C'est la raison pour laquelle nous avons créé des filtres par pays, âge, genre et niveau d'utilisation d'Internet, que vous pouvez sélectionner d'un simple clic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.19826187752187252"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;www.insightsafrica.com)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; est un outil gratuit, accessible &amp;nbsp;au public, que tout le monde peut consulter pour découvrir le taux de pénétration d'Internet, comprendre les habitudes d'utilisation des internautes et en savoir plus sur les freins à l'utilisation d'Internet. Grâce à&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;InsightsAfrica, vous saurez &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Drivers+%26+Barriers+for+Internet+Usage&amp;amp;qid=54032&amp;amp;filter=Kenya,Women,16-24" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;ce qui pourrait inciter une jeune femme kenyane à aller plus souvent sur Internet via son téléphone portable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Internet+Connection+Location&amp;amp;qid=52033&amp;amp;filter=Senegal,Men,All-Age%3BSenegal,Men,16-24%3B" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;les lieux à partir desquels les hommes au Sénégal ont l’habitude de consulter Internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Internet+Session+Length&amp;amp;qid=52034&amp;amp;filter=South+Africa,Men" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;le temps que les hommes en Afrique du Sud passent en moyenne par session sur Internet via leur téléphone portable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/#!place=category&amp;amp;cat=Interest+%26+Awareness+in+Online+Content&amp;amp;qid=57038&amp;amp;filter=Ghana%3BNigeria%3BUganda%3B" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;la connaissance qu'ont les non-utilisateurs d'Internet au Ghana, en Ouganda et au Nigéria, des activités en ligne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.19826187752187252"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Pour créer votre ensemble de données personnalisé, il vous suffit d'aller sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;et de sélectionner une catégorie dans le menu déroulant en haut ou dans les menus qui s'affichent en passant la souris sur les icônes de couleurs. Une fois dans une catégorie, utilisez le menu à gauche pour faire des recherches ciblées sur des groupes démographiques, changer la présentation des graphiques ou encore télécharger, sauvegarder et partager vos graphiques.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Nous espérons que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsmena.com/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.insightsafrica.com/" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;InsightsAfrica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; vous aidera à comprendre le potentiel grandissant qu'offre Internet en Afrique.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Publié par Karina Przyjemski, Research Manager, Market Insights, Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Today we’re announcing a major expansion of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Art Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. With a few simple clicks of a finger, art lovers around the world will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art and photographs from in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ww.googleartproject.com/collections/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;151 museums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collections/#map" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;40 countries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, including South Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;              &lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4ZdCByYeNRU" width="520"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The original Art Project counted 17 museums in nine countries and 1,000 images, almost all paintings from Western masters. Today, the Art Project includes more than&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/artworks/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;30,000 high-resolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;artworks, with Street View images for over 46 museums, with more on the way. We are particularly excited to have collaborated with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://rockart.wits.ac.za/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Rock Art Research Institute &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;in Johannesburg and with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iziko.org.za/museums/south-african-national-gallery" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;South African National Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; in Cape Town.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The Art Project is no longer just about students in Africa and Asia wanting to visit, for example, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/#museumview" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Metropolitan Museum of Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; in New York. It is now also about the American students wanting to explore African artistic heritage, including &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;dozens of rock art images&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; from five different community-run tourism sites in South Africa, including those in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/artwork/snake-rock-southern-san/2571377/#details" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Giant’s Castle Nature Reserve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/artwork/eland-panel-southern-san/2570367/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Kamberg Nature Reserve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;. Virtual visitors can also view over 50 works from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;the South African National Gallery collection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; by renowned South African artists such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/arm-sonder-hand-sophie-peters/6983943/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Sophie Peters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/there-goes-a-man-deep-in-sorrow-like-the-river-underground-thami-mnyele/6957885/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Thami Mnyele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/the-nuptials-of-samantha-fred-page/6982416/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; Fred Page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/rural-landscape-with-water-carrier-gerard-benghu/6974906/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; Gerard Benghu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/stacked-baskets-walter-oltmann/6983938/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Walter Oltmann&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/fishermen-drawing-nets-walter-battiss/6979562/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Walter Battiss&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/street-scene-gerard-sekoto/6980556/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Gerard Sekoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/lovers-in-a-cinema-deborah-bell/6981432/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Deborah Bell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;The SANG collection also includes photographs of cultural artefacts such as beaded aprons, headrests, and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/nguni-cattle-horn-engraved-with-scenes-of-the-anglo-zulu-war-1879-top-image-unknown/2397323/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;engraved cattle horns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;, some of which date to the 19th century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you want to go further afield, take a look at the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-white-house/#museumview" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;White House&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in Washington D.C. Explore the collection of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/#museumview" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Museum of Islamic Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in Qatar. Continue the journey in India, exploring the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma-new-delhi/artwork/untitled-santiniketan-triptych-tyeb-mehta/2560246/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Santiniketan Triptych&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in the halls of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma-new-delhi/#museumview" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Gallery of Modern Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Delhi. &amp;nbsp;The expanded Art Project embraces all sizes of institutions, specializing in art or in other types of culture. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Here are a few other new things in the expanded Art Project that you might enjoy:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Using completely new tools, called Explore and Discover, you can find artworks by period, artist or type of artwork, displaying works from different museums around the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ and Hangouts are integrated on the site, enabling you to create even more engaging personal galleries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View images are now displayed in finer quality. A specially designed Street View “trolley” took 360-degree images of the interior of selected galleries which were then stitched together, enabling smooth navigation of more than 385 rooms within the museums. You can also explore the gallery interiors directly from within&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/museums"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Street View in Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;An enhanced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/galleries/my-galleries/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; feature lets you select any of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/artworks/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;30,000 artworks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;—along with your favorite details—to build your own personalised gallery. You can add comments to each painting and share the whole collection with friends and family. (It’s an ideal tool for students.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Art Project is part of our efforts to bringing culture online and making it accessible the widest possible audience. &amp;nbsp;Under the auspices of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Cultural Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, we’re producing high-resolution images of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, digitizing the archives of famous figures such as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and creating 3D models of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://lafranceenrelief.maison-histoire.fr/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;18th century French cities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Together with the fantastic input from our partners from around the world, we’re delighted to have created a convenient, fun way to interact with art—a platform that we hope appeals to students, aspiring artists and connoisseurs alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.8219953773077577"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Peintures rupestres d'Afrique du Sud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/museu-de-arte-moderna-de-sao-paulo/artwork/untitled-osgemeos/2779496/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Graffitis des rues brésilienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-australia-canberra/artwork/warlugulong-clifford-possum-tjapaltjarri-anmatyerr-people/810470"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Art aborigène australien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/#museumview"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Motifs islamiques&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Nous annonçons aujourd'hui une extension importante de notre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Art Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. À partir de maintenant, d’un simple clic, les passionnés d’art du monde entier pourront découvrir non seulement des peintures, mais aussi des sculptures, de l’art urbain, et des photographies provenant de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ww.googleartproject.com/collections/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;151 musées&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; dans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collections/#map"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;40 pays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, dont l'Afrique du Sud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.8219953773077577"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Depuis le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; lancement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; d’Art Project l’année dernière, les conservateurs, les artistes et les visiteurs du monde entier nous ont donné des idées passionnantes de nouvelles façons, plus innovantes et plus riches, de découvrir, collectionner et partager l’art. Des institutions du monde entier nous ont demandé d’intégrer ce beau projet. Nous les avons écoutées.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.8219953773077577"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La première édition d’Art Project comptait 17 musées dans neuf pays et 1000 images, presque toutes des peintures de maîtres occidentaux. Aujourd’hui, Art Project inclut plus de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/artworks/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;30&amp;nbsp;000 œuvres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; en haute résolution. Les images de Street View permettent aujourd’hui de découvrir 46 musées, et d’autres sont encore à venir. Nous sommes particulièrement heureux d'avoir pu collaborer avec le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://rockart.wits.ac.za/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Rock Art Research Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de Johannesbourg et la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iziko.org.za/museums/south-african-national-gallery"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;South African National Gallery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; au Cap.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Art Project ne concerne plus uniquement les étudiants indiens qui désirent visiter le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/#museumview"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;MoMA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; à New York. Désormais, il concerne également les étudiants américains qui désirent explorer l'héritage artistique, dont des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;dizaines de peintures rupestres&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de cinq sites touristiques d'Afrique du Sud, y compris ceux de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/artwork/snake-rock-southern-san/2571377/#details"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Réserve naturelle de Giant Castle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-rock-art-research-institute-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg/artwork/eland-panel-southern-san/2570367/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Réserve naturelle de Kamberg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les visiteurs v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;irtuels peuvent également découvrir plus de 50 œuvres de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;collection de la National Gallery sud-africaine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; d'artistes sud-africains réputés tels que Sophie Peters, Thami Mnyele, Fred Page, Gerard Benghu, Walter Oltmann, Walter Battiss,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/street-scene-gerard-sekoto/6980556/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Gerard Sekoto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/lovers-in-a-cinema-deborah-bell/6981432/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Deborah Bell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;La collection SANG comporte aussi des photographies d'objets culturels tels que des tabliers de perles, des appuie-tête et des&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/south-african-national-gallery/artwork/nguni-cattle-horn-engraved-with-scenes-of-the-anglo-zulu-war-1879-top-image-unknown/2397323/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;cornes de bétail gravées&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, dont certains datent du XIXe siècle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jetez donc un coup d'œil à la&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-white-house/#museumview"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Maison Blanche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; à Washington ou explorez la collection du &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-museum-of-islamic-art-qatar/#museumview"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Musée de l'Art islamique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; au Qatar. Continuez votre voyage en Inde, en découvrant le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma-new-delhi/artwork/untitled-santiniketan-triptych-tyeb-mehta/2560246/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;triptyque de Santiniketan &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;dans les salles de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-modern-art-ngma-new-delhi/#museumview"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Gallery du Musée d'Art Moderne &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;à Delhi. &amp;nbsp;L'extension de l'Art Project englobe des institutions de toute taille, spécialisées dans l'art ou dans d'autres formes de culture. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Voici quelques autres nouveautés de cette édition d’Art Project que vous devriez apprécier&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;À l'aide d'outils complètement nouveaux, Explore et Discover, vous pouvez rechercher des œuvres d'art par période, par artiste ou par type d'art, et découvrir des œuvres exposées dans différents musées du monde entier. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ et Hangouts ont été intégrés, pour vous permettre de créer des collections personnelles toujours plus interactives. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les images de Street View s'affichent désormais dans une qualité supérieure à la version initiale. Un « trolley» Street View a été spécialement conçu pour réaliser des prises de vue à 360 degrés à l'intérieur de certaines galeries qui ont ensuite été assemblées pour parcourir en toute tranquillité les plus de 385 salles des musées concernés. Les photographies de ces galeries sont également disponibles directement via&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/museums"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Street View sur Google Maps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Une sélection d'œuvres a été photographiée à un niveau de détails exceptionnel en utilisant la technologie photo “gigapixel”, en très haute résolution. Grâce à cette technologie, vous pouvez étudier les détails du pinceau et de la patine au-delà de ce qu’un œil nu pourrait voir. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Une fonctionnalité dédiée améliorée &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/galleries/my-galleries/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mes collections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; permet de sélectionner n’importe quelles œuvres parmi les&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/artworks/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; 30&amp;nbsp;000 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;proposées, pour créer votre collection personnalisée. Vous pouvez ajouter des commentaires sur chacune des œuvres que vous avez choisies, et partager votre collection avec vos proches. C'est un outil idéal si vous êtes étudiant&amp;nbsp;! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Art Project illustre l’engagement de Google pour mettre la culture en ligne et la rendre accessible au plus grand nombre. Ainsi, sous l’égide de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l'Institut culturel de Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; basé à Paris, nous produisons des images haute résolution des &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Manuscrits de la Mer Morte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, numérisons les archives de personnes célèbres comme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et créons des maquettes 3D de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://lafranceenrelief.maison-histoire.fr/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;villes françaises du XVIIIe siècle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous sommes ravis d’avoir créé une manière pratique et divertissante d’interagir avec l’art, une plate-forme qui, nous l’espérons, plaît aux étudiants, aux artistes en herbe et aux connaisseurs. Ceci est rendu possible grâce à nos partenaires du monde entier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.8219953773077577" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Publié par Amit Sood, Directeur de Google Art Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-4537421070528093472?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/_07yjopysTo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/4537421070528093472?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/4537421070528093472?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/_07yjopysTo/african-rock-art-joins-global.html" title="African Rock Art joins global collection of online art" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/4ZdCByYeNRU/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/04/african-rock-art-joins-global.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkYMSH04eyp7ImA9WhVQE0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-5762158034899541760</id><published>2012-04-02T09:29:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-04-02T09:29:49.333+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-02T09:29:49.333+03:00</app:edited><title>Helping serve the Developer and Academic communities in Kenya</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998&amp;amp;pli=1#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6210464062169194"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Both &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ihub.co.ke/pages/home.php"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nairobi’s Innovation Hub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (the *iHub) and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kenet.or.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya Education Network &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;(KENET) are doing really important work when it comes to building the Internet community in Kenya. &amp;nbsp;The iHub, a popular hangout for techies, is home to many of Kenya’s young entrepreneurs, web and mobile programmers, designers and researchers. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;KENET &amp;nbsp;is a non-profit institution that connects educational institutions with a private, affordable high speed Internet network. &amp;nbsp;It supports many universities, tertiary and research institutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today we’re happy to be giving these two organisations USD 350,000 (KSh 28m) to help them expand their infrastructure and purchase tools to better serve the developer and academic communities in Kenya. &amp;nbsp;We hope that this support will help strengthen the *iHub and KENET communities respectively. &amp;nbsp;It’s the good work of organisations like these that helps us achieve our goals of increasing access to the Internet and creating locally relevant content. &amp;nbsp;We look forward to following their progress!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Joe Mucheru, Lead, Google Sub Saharan Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.2159313813317567"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;L'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ihub.co.ke/pages/home.php"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Innovation Hub de Nairobi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (le *iHub) comme le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kenet.or.ke/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya Education Network &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;(KENET) font un travail remarquable pour aider à construire la communauté Internet au Kenya. &amp;nbsp;Le iHub, un hangout très populaire parmi les techniciens, est le point de départ pour de nombreux jeunes entrepreneurs, programmeurs web et mobile, concepteurs et chercheurs du Kenya. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;KENET est un organisme a but non lucratif qui connecte les établissements d'enseignement à un réseau privé Internet haut débit à un prix abordable. &amp;nbsp;Il aide de nombreuses universités, ainsi que des établissements d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Aujourd'hui, nous sommes heureux de faire un don de 350&amp;nbsp;000 USD (28&amp;nbsp;m KSh ) à ces deux organismes, pour les aider à étendre leur infrastructure et à acquérir les outils qui leur permettront de mieux servir les communautés de développeurs et d'universitaires au Kenya. &amp;nbsp;Nous espérons que ce soutien aidera à renforcer les communautés *iHub et KENET respectivement. &amp;nbsp;C'est grâce au travail de tels organismes que nous réussirons à atteindre nos objectifs : étendre l'accès à Internet et créer du contenu pertinent localement. &amp;nbsp;Nous suivrons leur progrès avec beaucoup d'intérêt!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Joe Mucheru, chef de service, Google Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6964010267984122"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Last year we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-more-people-and-information.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;announced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a $1.25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory to help preserve and digitize thousands of archival documents, photographs and videos about Nelson Mandela. &amp;nbsp;Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/memory/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (NMCM) is committed to documenting the life and times of one of the world's greatest statesmen and spreading his story to promote social justice throughout the world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today, the Mandela archive has become a reality. &amp;nbsp;Along with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;historians, educationalists, researchers, activists and many others around the world, you can&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; access a wealth of information and knowledge about the life and legacy of this extraordinary African leader. &amp;nbsp;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;new online multimedia archive &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;includes Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written during his 27 years of imprisonment, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa. The archive will also include the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:q.1069448327201967200=11665508751450884626&amp;amp;l.id=CgQ_iQTaA1GpqqgZugiuLt6aWXT2qok&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=1&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=YQM_iQTaA1GpqqgZugiuJFwGtEJiMbk" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;earliest-known photo of Mr. Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:q.1069448327201967200=6884498641484692959&amp;amp;q.15415513435418740516=3987966940915792855" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;never-before seen drafts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; of Mr. Mandela's manuscripts for the sequel to his autobiography &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/role-revealed-of-madibas-comrades-in-long-walk-to-freedom/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Long Walk to Freedom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We’ve worked closely with the NMCM to create an interactive online experience which we hope will inspire you as much as us. &amp;nbsp;You can search and browse the archives to explore different parts of Mandela’s life and work in depth: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQxpEmp6" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Early Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Prison Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQw1oiIi" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Presidential Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQzKKyZo" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Retirement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQzX32lL" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Books for Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwRZywp" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Young People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Moments with a Legend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For example, you might be interested in Nelson Mandela’s personal memories of the time he was incarcerated and click into the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!exhibit:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Prison Years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; exhibit. You can immediately see a curated set of materials threaded together into a broader narrative. Included are: handwritten notes on his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=8QQ_iQTaA1ijXH0zvdFFSxOs9eR4Oa0&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=8" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;desk calendars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, which show, for example, that he met President F.W. De Klerk for the first time on December 13, 1989 for two and a half hours in prison; the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!exhibit:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;position=13%2C72" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Warrants of Commital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; issued by the Supreme Court which sent him to prison; the earliest known &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=ZgQ_iQTaA26whHz2cHXFVMpS5sbELUQ&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=27" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;photo of Nelson Mandela’s prison cell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on Robben Island circa 1971; and a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=cgQ_iQTaAxNoYTDGm_WHPmgflrQZSus&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=32" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;personal letter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; written from prison in 1963 to his daughters, Zeni and Zindzi, after their mother was arrested, complete with transcript.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;From there, you might want to see all the letters held by the archive, and click ‘See more’ in the letters category, where you can discover &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:q.1069448327201967200=5114723733209196987" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;all personal letters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, or use the time filter to explore his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:ymin=1988&amp;amp;ymax=1998&amp;amp;q.1069448327201967200=10893284659214125890" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;diaries and calendars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; written between 1988 and 1998, where you can see that in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:y.ymin=1987&amp;amp;y.ymax=1998&amp;amp;q.1069448327201967200=10893284659214125890&amp;amp;l.id=1wQ_iQTaA4hFgZZm395lULQJHLSoEkA&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=6&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=vwM_iQTaA4hFgZZm395l-Z8ewRCZYik" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;last page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; of the last diary, he met with President &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda to exchange ideas about the situation in northern Uganda. If you were a researcher, you can search through various fragments of Madiba’s memory that relate to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!search:q=ahmed%20kathrada" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ahmed Kathrada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, his long-time comrade, politician and anti-apartheid activist, where you can find photos, videos, manuscripts, and letters that relate to him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Finally, by clicking into the exhibit, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Moments with a Legend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, you can go beyond Madiba’s personal materials to get a diverse perspective through photos, videos, and stories, via the memories of people like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=xQI_iQTaA4wuwMv3rJfukP7gjpg-Fx4&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=45&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=fgQ_iQTaA4wuwMv3rJfuLDC8bO2Wcsw" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Archbishop Desmond Tutu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=pwQ_iQTaAxTVWEVXS45Nok_uUx0l16M&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=11" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;F.W. De Klerk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=FQI_iQTaA1K4iH4s61txfbWKQ6X1aEU&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=26&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=_AQ_iQTaA1K4iH4s61tx4S1ob0TEe9E" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nomfundo Walaza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, a community worker.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive project is an initiative by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/culturalinstitute" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Cultural Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; which helps to preserve and promote our diverse cultural and historical heritage. Some of our other initiatives include the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Art Project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;digitizing the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and bringing the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/explore-yad-vashems-holocaust-archives.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Yad Vashem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Holocaust materials online.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;You can start exploring the Nelson Mandela archive right now at archive.nelsonmandela.org. &amp;nbsp;We hope you’ll be inspired by this influential leader—the face of South Africa’s transition to democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6227754715364426"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Explorer les archives de Mandela en ligne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.6227754715364426"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;L'année dernière, nous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/03/getting-more-people-and-information.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;avons annoncé&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; un don de 1,25 million de dollars (8,6 millions de rands ZAR) au Centre de mémoire Nelson Mandela, pour contribuer à la préservation et à la numérisation des milliers de documents d'archive, de photos et de vidéos concernant Nelson Mandela. Basé à Johannesbourg (Afrique du Sud), le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/memory/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Centre de mémoire Nelson Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (NMCM) a pour mission de documenter la vie et l'époque de l'un des plus grands hommes d'État du monde et de diffuser son histoire pour promouvoir la justice sociale à travers le monde. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Aujourd'hui, les archives Mandela sont une réalité. Comme de nombreux &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;historiens, professeurs, chercheurs, militants et bien d'autres, vous pouvez désormais accéder à une &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;multitude d'informations et de connaissances sur la vie et l'héritage de cet immense leader africain. Les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;nouvelles archives multimédia en ligne &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;comprennent la correspondance de Mandela avec sa famille, ses camarades et ses amis, le journal qu'il a tenu durant ses 27 années de captivité et les notes qu'il a rédigées lors des négociations qui ont conduit à la fin de l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud. Les archives comprendront aussi la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:q.1069448327201967200=11665508751450884626&amp;amp;l.id=CgQ_iQTaA1GpqqgZugiuLt6aWXT2qok&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=1&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=YQM_iQTaA1GpqqgZugiuJFwGtEJiMbk" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;première photo connue de M. Mandela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:q.1069448327201967200=6884498641484692959&amp;amp;q.15415513435418740516=3987966940915792855" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;des brouillons inédits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;de la suite de son autobiographie, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/role-revealed-of-madibas-comrades-in-long-walk-to-freedom/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Un long chemin vers la liberté&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous avons travaillé en étroite collaboration avec le NMCM pour créer une expérience interactive en ligne qui, nous l'espérons, vous passionnera autant qu'elle nous a passionnés. Vous pouvez effectuer des recherches et naviguer dans les archives pour explorer en profondeur les différentes facettes de la vie et de l'œuvre de Nelson Mandela&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQxpEmp6" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Early Life ("Les années de jeunesse")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Prison Years ("Les années de prison")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQw1oiIi" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Presidential Years ("Les années présidentielles")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQzKKyZo" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Retirement ("La retraite")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQzX32lL" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Books for Mandela ("Les ouvrages sur Mandela")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwRZywp" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Young People ("Les jeunes")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Moments with a Legend ("Mes moments avec une légende")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Par &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;exemple, si vous êtes intéressé par les mémoires personnelles de Nelson Mandela du temps où il était en prison, cliquez sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!exhibit:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Prison years ("Années de prison")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Vous accéderez immédiatement à une compilation de documents organisés sous forme d'un vaste récit. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Y figurent notamment &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;: des notes manuscrites de ses &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=8QQ_iQTaA1ijXH0zvdFFSxOs9eR4Oa0&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=8" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;agendas de bureau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, qui indiquent par exemple qu'il a rencontré le Président F.W. De Klerk pour la première fois en prison le 13 décembre 1989 durant une heure et demie ; le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!exhibit:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;position=13%2C72" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Mandat d'incarcération&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;émis par la Cour Suprême pour son emprisonnement ; la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;plus ancienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=ZgQ_iQTaA26whHz2cHXFVMpS5sbELUQ&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=27" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;photo connue de la cellule de Nelson Mandela en prison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Robben Island vers 1971; ainsi qu'une &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwVV8cP&amp;amp;l.id=cgQ_iQTaAxNoYTDGm_WHPmgflrQZSus&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=32" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;lettre personnelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; écrite de la prison en 1963 à ses filles, Zeni et Zindzi, après l'arrestation de leur mère, avec sa transcription intégrale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Si vous avez envie ensuite d'accéder à toutes les lettres conservées par les archives, cliquez sur "see more" (suite) dans la catégorie Lettres. Vous y découvrirez &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:q.1069448327201967200=5114723733209196987" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;toutes ses lettres personnelles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, ou utilisez le curseur des années pour explorer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!browse:ymin=1988&amp;amp;ymax=1998&amp;amp;q.1069448327201967200=10893284659214125890" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ses agendas et calendriers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; annotés entre 1988 et 1998. Vous pourrez voir sur la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:y.ymin=1987&amp;amp;y.ymax=1998&amp;amp;q.1069448327201967200=10893284659214125890&amp;amp;l.id=1wQ_iQTaA4hFgZZm395lULQJHLSoEkA&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=6&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=vwM_iQTaA4hFgZZm395l-Z8ewRCZYik" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;dernière page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de son dernier agenda, qu'il a rencontré le Président &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;de l'Ouganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pour échanger des idées sur la situation dans le nord de l'Ouganda. Si vous êtes chercheur, vous pouvez faire des recherches dans les différents fragments de mémoires de "Madiba" qui concernent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!search:q=ahmed%20kathrada" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ahmed Kathrada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, son camarade de longue date, militant anti-apartheid et opposant politique. Vous y trouverez des photos, des vidéos, des manuscrits et des lettres à son sujet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6227754715364426"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Enfin, en cliquant sur le diaporama &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!home:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Moments with a Legend ("Mes moments avec une légende")&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, vous pouvez aller au-delà des documents personnels de Madiba pour obtenir une perspective plus variée du personnage grâce à des photos, des vidéos et des histoires collectées dans les mémoires de personnes telles que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=xQI_iQTaA4wuwMv3rJfukP7gjpg-Fx4&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=45&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=fgQ_iQTaA4wuwMv3rJfuLDC8bO2Wcsw"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l'Archevêque Desmond Tutu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=pwQ_iQTaAxTVWEVXS45Nok_uUx0l16M&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=11"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;F.W. De Klerk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/#!asset-viewer:exhibitId=AQwxEAUi&amp;amp;l.id=FQI_iQTaA1K4iH4s61txfbWKQ6X1aEU&amp;amp;l.min-loaded=26&amp;amp;l.expanded-id=_AQ_iQTaA1K4iH4s61tx4S1ob0TEe9E"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nomfundo Walaza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, agent communautaire.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.3530742968432605" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Le projet d'Archive numérique Nelson Mandela est une initiative du Centre de mémoire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nelson Mandela et de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/culturalinstitute"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l'Institut de culture Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; qui vise à préserver et à promouvoir notre héritage culturel et historique. Parmi d'autres initiatives, citons le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Projet Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;numérisant les&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Manuscrits de la mer Morte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et mettant en ligne le mémorial de l'holocauste&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/explore-yad-vashems-holocaust-archives.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Yad Vashem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.3530742968432605"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous pouvez dès à présent explorer les archives de Nelson Mandela sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.nelsonmandela.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;archive.nelsonmandela.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Nous espérons que ces lectures sur ce leader hors commun — figure de la transition de l'Afrique du Sud vers la démocratie vous inspireront.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-6154694538430322440?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/5ZZ8aPftLyM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6154694538430322440?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/6154694538430322440?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/5ZZ8aPftLyM/explore-mandelas-archives-online.html" title="Explore Mandela’s archives online" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/03/explore-mandelas-archives-online.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4FRnY6cCp7ImA9WhVRFE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-2274111794158774274</id><published>2012-03-22T17:35:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-03-22T17:35:17.818+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-22T17:35:17.818+03:00</app:edited><title>Digitizing Justice in Ghana</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998&amp;amp;pli=1#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.40957438736222684"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;For over a century, the laws of Ghana have lived in courtrooms and leather-bound books where lawyers and judges across the country can refer to rulings from years ago. Information was often out of date and only accessible to a select few. To improve accountability and expand access to this critical national information, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Theodora_Wood"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Chief Justice Georgina Wood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; decided to bring the system on-line.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.40957438736222684"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We are pleased to announce today that the Judicial Service of Ghana has joined the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/partner" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Books Partner Programme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, uploading judicial opinions from the High Courts, Appellate Courts, and Supreme Court to Google Books and making them searchable from the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Court’s homepage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="456px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0zZ2BOV33pXtwIpM0fQaXmmIhhe4k10EIzhJfkeSuLyvw43vYzk5u0qmThhwIiabTLZ2Lx4aa7sdQMDkseGUehRdxVo9wT3wh3JVmN04afPbHhjVpbk" width="539px;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Court has also embedded a Google search box on its homepage at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.judicial.gov.gh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, allowing any user to search and read Ghanaian judgments. Once uploaded, judicial opinions are not only searchable from the Court’s website, but also from Google.com alongside scholarly titles and Dickens classics. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;You can start exploring this new digital justice resource today at &lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.40957438736222684" style="color: black; font-family: 'Apple LiSung'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.judicial.gov.gh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, and we hope you’ll find it interesting and relevant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="535px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/GB6BfHxkDUZuSN3z1V7bmJ5W03Jku7p0IiEXny8lCRDi71-GObxyIK6t-v2w0BrvrfvXm2bsYFHAfhtHyLRJ6eRChPscv6etH20Np6nvbjInwpzextc" width="503px;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Google Books Partner Programme is available to any institution at books.google.com/partner, where organizations can upload digital content for free and make it searchable from their homepage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Court’s work thus far marks exciting progress in bringing local African content online and is a continuation of the work we have been doing across the continent, for instance in Kenya &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/04/over-100-years-of-kenya-gazette-goes.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;with the Kenya Gazette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Congratulations to the Supreme Court of Ghana on making this first step, and we look forward to contributing to these efforts as they grow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Ghana Country Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9199188102502376"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Numérisation de la Justice au Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9199188102502376"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pendant plus d'un siècle, les lois du Ghana sont restées confinées dans les tribunaux et dans des ouvrages reliés de cuir, auxquels avocats et juges du pays pouvaient se référer pour connaître la jurisprudence des années antérieures. Le hic, c'est que les informations y étaient souvent périmées et que seuls quelques-uns y avaient accès. Pour renforcer la responsabilité et développer l'accès à ces informations nationales capitales, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgina_Theodora_Wood"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;la Chief Justice Georgina Wood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a décidé de mettre le système en ligne.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.9199188102502376"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer aujourd'hui que le Service judiciaire du Ghana a rejoint le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/partner" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Programme Partenaire de Google Books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, téléchargeant les arrêts de la Haute Cour, de la Cour d'Appel et de la Cour Suprême sur Google Books et rendant leur recherche possible à partir de la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;page d'accueil de la Cour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La Cour a également intégré une zone de recherche Google sur sa page d'accueil, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.judicial.gov.gh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, permettant à tout un chacun de rechercher et de consulter les jugements rendus au Ghana. Une fois téléchargées, les décisions judiciaires sont accessibles depuis le site de la Cour, mais aussi depuis Google.com, tout comme les ouvrages scolaires et les classiques de Dickens. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous pouvez commencer à explorer ces nouvelles ressources numériques sur &lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.40957438736222684" style="color: black; font-family: 'Apple LiSung'; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.judicial.gov.gh/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.judicial.gov.gh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, et nous espérons que vous les trouverez intéressantes et pertinentes&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Le Programme Partenaires de Google Books est ouvert à toute institution, à l'adresse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://books.google.com/partner" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;books.google.com/partner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, où les organisations peuvent télécharger gratuitement les contenus numérisés et les rendre accessibles à partir de leur page d'accueil.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La mise en ligne de contenus africains locaux par la Cour enregistre à ce jour une progression remarquable. Félicitations à la Cour Suprême du Ghana pour la mise en œuvre de cette première étape. Nous restons prêts à contribuer à ces efforts, au fur et à mesure de leur développement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Poste par&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Ghana Country Manager&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-2274111794158774274?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/QnWZkyr921g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2274111794158774274?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2274111794158774274?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/QnWZkyr921g/digitizing-justice-in-ghana.html" title="Digitizing Justice in Ghana" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/03/digitizing-justice-in-ghana.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEUBRHs8eCp7ImA9WhVREkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-8711405414295441334</id><published>2012-03-20T14:58:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2012-03-20T15:24:15.570+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-20T15:24:15.570+03:00</app:edited><title>Gmail Chat SMS and Google Trader SMS come to Nigeria</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998&amp;amp;pli=1#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.05124190775677562" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Making the world’s information universally accessible and useful means making it available to people no matter what device they use. That’s why we are delighted to launch two new SMS products which we hope our Nigerian users will find useful: Gmail Chat SMS and Google Trader SMS. These services now make it possible to interact with Google via SMS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.05124190775677562" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Gmail Chat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;SMS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;allows Gmail Chat users, wherever they are in the world, to send free text messages directly from their computers to Airtel, GLO, MTN, Starcomms and Visafone subscribers in Nigeria. Gmail Chat SMS is available in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; over 30 countries around the globe including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, and Zambia. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.05124190775677562" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;On receiving a Gmail Chat SMS message on your phone, all you have to do is simply reply to the message via SMS. &amp;nbsp;The message will be delivered to the Chat user in Gmail. Replying via SMS costs the same as a sending a standard on-network SMS message. Go to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/mobile/sms/mail/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;http://www.google.com.ng/mobile/sms/mail/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to learn how to use this free and easy feature.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.05124190775677562" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Trader SMS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;enables mobile phone users to access the Google Trader marketplace in Nigeria via SMS. &amp;nbsp;Airtel and MTN subscribers can now search for items to buy, register items for sale, view the items they listed for sale, delete or change postings all via SMS. Google Trader is live in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;To get started simply text “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;start”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to 6007. Trader SMS messages cost the same as sending a standard on-network SMS message. &amp;nbsp;When a message is sent to Google Trader, users receive replies on their phones at no extra charge. Use Google Trader to buy or sell products online via your mobile phone. Go to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to learn more. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour rendre les informations du monde entier accessibles et utiles à tous, il faut les mettre à leur disposition quel que soit l'appareil qu'ils utilisent. C'est pourquoi nous sommes très heureux de lancer deux nouveaux produits SMS qui feront, nous l'espérons, le bonheur des internautes nigérians&amp;nbsp;: Gmail Chat SMS et Google Trader SMS. Ces services rendent possible l'interaction avec Google via SMS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Gmail Chat SMS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;permet aux utilisateurs de Gmail Chat, où qu'ils se trouvent dans le monde, d'envoyer des messages texte gratuits directement depuis leur ordinateur aux abonnés Airtel, GLO, MTN, Starcomms et Visafone au Nigéria. Gmail Chat SMS est disponible dans plus de 30&amp;nbsp;pays à travers le monde, dont le Ghana, le Kenya, le Malawi, le Sénégal et la Zambie. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;À réception d'un Gmail Chat SMS sur votre téléphone, il vous suffit de simplement de répondre au message par SMS. Le message sera transmis à l'utilisateur du Chat dans Gmail. Répondre par SMS coûte le même prix qu'envoyer un message SMS standard sur le réseau. Rendez-vous sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/mobile/sms/mail/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;http://www.google.com.ng/mobile/sms/mail/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour découvrir comment utiliser cette fonction gratuite et simple.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Trader SMS &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;permet aux utilisateurs de téléphones portables d'accéder par SMS au marché Google Trader du Nigéria. &amp;nbsp;Les abonnés à Airtel et MTN peuvent désormais rechercher des articles à acheter, enregistrer des article à vendre, consulter les articles qu'il ont mis en vente, supprimer ou modifier des posts, le tout par SMS. Google Trader est opérationnel au Ghana, au Kenya, au Nigéria et en Ouganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Poste par&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.05124190775677562" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lola Masha, New Business Development, West Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-8711405414295441334?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/EGIMKtYEJ9I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8711405414295441334?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8711405414295441334?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/EGIMKtYEJ9I/gmail-chat-sms-and-google-trader-sms.html" title="Gmail Chat SMS and Google Trader SMS come to Nigeria" /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/03/gmail-chat-sms-and-google-trader-sms.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DU8HQHg9fip7ImA9WhVSGE8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-4634412633014703919</id><published>2012-03-15T19:10:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2012-03-15T19:10:31.666+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-15T19:10:31.666+03:00</app:edited><title>2012 Google Science Fair - Ask your question</title><content type="html">&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6368080056272447"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Are human beings born curious, or can curiosity be nurtured through environment, competition or a good teacher? Everyone’s got a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=LWiuUC9RDhY"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;question&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;—that’s ours. But we’re sure you’ve got tons of questions, too. So, we’re inviting students around the world to pose their most pressing questions about the world around them and answer those questions through scientific inquiry. &amp;nbsp;Along with our partners CERN, The LEGO Group, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Geographic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, we’ve launched the second annual &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/sciencefair"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Science Fair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, the largest online science competition in the world, open globally to students ages 13-18. Either individually or in teams of up to three people, students pose a question, develop a hypothesis and conduct science experiments to test it. The entire process is detailed and submitted online, via a website template participants fill out themselves, so all you need to participate is curiosity, an Internet connection and a browser. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Last year, we received entries that strove to solve a wide variety of needs, from “How can I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ampkandcisplatinresistance/home"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;cure cancer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;?” to “Can I teach a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lukesgsfentry/home"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;robot to learn English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;?” to “Can I build a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mgmorris3993/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;faster sailboat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;?” The breadth and depth of these projects was incredibly impressive, and this year we hope to see even more entries from the next generation of brilliant young scientists. This year’s fair will be even more global than the last: We’re now accepting submissions in 13 languages (Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Russia). We will also be recognizing 90 regional finalists (30 from the Americas, 30 from the Asia Pacific and 30 from Europe/Middle East/Africa). So there is a great opportunity for African students to be recognized. &amp;nbsp;Last year we had a finalist from South Africa, Luke Taylor, you can view his amazing story &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g_m59Po1k"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;From these 90, to be announced in May, our judges will select the top 15 finalists, who will be flown to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. for our live Google Science Fair final event on July 23, 2012. At the finals, a panel of distinguished international &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/judging.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;judges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (like Vint Cerf, Sylvia Earle and Nobel Laureates David Gross and Ada Yonath) will select top winners in each age category (13-14, 15-16, 17-18). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We’re also introducing a new category for this year’s competition—the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Science in Action award. We were so inspired by 2011 finalist Harine Ravichandran’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H158-6LE9Wg"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, which attempted to solve energy surges in rural villages, that we decided to recognize an outstanding project that addresses a social, environmental or health need to make a difference in the lives of a group or community, as Harine’s project did for her grandparents’ village in India. The winner will also be flown to Mountain View for the finalist event in July. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Google Science Fair is accepting submissions until Sunday, April 1 at 11:59pm GMT (or 6:59pm ET/3:59pm PT). In addition to satisfying your curious mind, your brilliant project can also help to win you some pretty cool &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/prizes.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;prizes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, like a $50,000 college scholarship from Google, a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with a National Geographic Explorer or an internship at Google or any one of our partners. Our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Science in Action award winner will earn $50,000 and year-long mentorship to make their project goal a reality. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The winners of last year’s inaugural Google Science Fair became something like scientific rock stars. Shree Bose, Naomi Shah and Lauren Hodge &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/07/google-science-fair-winners-visit-white-house"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;met with President Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, were invited to speak at big events like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tedxwomen.org/speakers/lauren-hodge/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;TEDx Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/wl_celebs/?pid=1779"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;featured&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Wired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; magazine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/sciencefair"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;google.com/sciencefair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and ask your most burning questions at the top of your voice for the world to hear. Google itself was founded through experimentation and with the Google Science Fair, we hope to inspire scientific exploration among the next generation of scientists and engineers, celebrate scientific talent, create scientific role models and unite students around the world in the quest for learning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.026854755356907845"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les êtres humains naissent-ils curieux, ou bien la curiosité s’expliquerait-elle par l’influence du milieu social ou d’un professeur talentueux ou par l’esprit de compétition&amp;nbsp;? Nous avons tous une &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=LWiuUC9RDhY" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;question&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;—voilà la nôtre. Mais nous sommes convaincus que vous avez aussi plein de questions. C’est pourquoi nous invitons les élèves du monde entier à poser leurs questions les plus pressantes sur le monde qui les entoure et à y répondre par une démarche scientifique. En association avec nos partenaires que sont le CERN, le Groupe LEGO et les magazines &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Geographic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, nous avons lancé la seconde édition annuelle de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/sciencefair" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;la Fête de la science Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, le plus grand concours scientifique en ligne organisé à l’échelle mondiale et ouvert à tous les élèves âgés de 13 à 18 ans. En individuel ou par équipes de trois maximum, les élèves posent une question, élaborent une hypothèse et mènent des expériences scientifiques pour en tester la validité. L’ensemble du processus est détaillé et soumis en ligne, via un formulaire accessible sur le site Internet que les participants remplissent eux-mêmes. Pour participer, il suffit d’être curieux et de disposer d’une connexion et d’un navigateur Internet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;L’année dernière, nous avons reçu des projets visant à répondre à toute sorte de problèmes, tels que «&amp;nbsp;Comment peut-on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ampkandcisplatinresistance/home" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;guérir le cancer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;?&amp;nbsp;» ou «&amp;nbsp;Peut-on apprendre à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lukesgsfentry/home" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;un robot à parler anglais&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;?&amp;nbsp;» ou encore «&amp;nbsp;Est-il possible de construire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mgmorris3993/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;un voilier plus rapide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ?&amp;nbsp;» Nous avons été véritablement impressionnés par l’étendue des champs couverts. Cette année, nous espérons que la nouvelle génération de jeunes scientifiques prometteurs soumettra encore davantage de projets. Cette édition de la fête de la science va concerner un nombre encore plus important de pays que la précédente car vous pouvez désormais soumettre vos projets en 13 langues (arabe, chinois, néerlandais, anglais, français, allemand, hébreu, italien, japonais, coréen, polonais, espagnol et russe). Nous allons également sélectionner 90 finalistes (30 pour la région Amériques, 30 pour la région Asie-Pacifique et 30 pour la région Europe/Moyen-Orient/Afrique). Les élèves africains bénéficient donc d’une formidable opportunité de se distinguer. L’année dernière, Luke Taylor, l’un des finalistes, était originaire d’Afrique du Sud. Retrouvez son incroyable histoire en cliquant &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8g_m59Po1k" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Parmi cette liste de 90 scientifiques en herbe, qui sera annoncée en mai, notre jury sélectionnera les 15 premiers finalistes qui prendront l’avion pour Mountain View (Californie), pour rejoindre le siège de Google où sera diffusée en direct la finale de la Fête de la science Google le 23 juillet 2012. Lors de la finale, un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/judging.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;jury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; composé de personnalités internationales éminentes (comme Vint Cerf, Sylvia Earle et les Lauréats du Prix Nobel David Gross et Ada Yonath) désignera les gagnants pour chaque catégorie d’âge (13-14, 15-16, 17-18). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Le concours de cette année comporte également une nouvelle catégorie — le prix du magazine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;de la science en action. Cette idée nous a été inspirée par le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H158-6LE9Wg" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;projet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; d’Harine Ravichandran, finaliste 2011, dont l’objectif était d’apporter une solution aux sautes de courant en milieu rural. C’est ainsi que nous avons décidé de récompenser un projet exceptionnel répondant à un besoin social, environnemental ou sanitaire, qui ait un véritable impact sur la vie d’un groupe ou d’une communauté, comme cela a été le cas pour le projet présenté par Harine pour le village de ses grands-parents en Inde. Le gagnant participera également à la finale de juillet à Mountain View. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les propositions de projet pour la Fête de la science Google doivent être envoyées au plus tard le dimanche 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;er&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; avril à 23h59 GMT (ou à 18h59 heure de l’Est/15h59 heure du Pacifique). Outre le plaisir de satisfaire votre curiosité, la qualité de votre projet peut également vous permettre de gagner l’un de nos formidables &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/prizes.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;prix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, comme par exemple une bourse d’étude de 50&amp;nbsp;000 $ offerte par Google, un voyage de 10 jours dans les Galapagos en compagnie d’un scientifique du magazine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;National Geographic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou un stage chez Google ou l’un de nos partenaires. Le lauréat du prix «&amp;nbsp;Science in Action&amp;nbsp;» du magazine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; recevra un prix de 50&amp;nbsp;000&amp;nbsp;$ et bénéficiera d’un tutorat d’un an pour mettre en œuvre son projet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les lauréats de la première édition de la Fête de la science Google sont devenus en quelque sorte des stars de la science. C’est ainsi que Shree Bose, Naomi Shah et Lauren Hodge &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/07/google-science-fair-winners-visit-white-house" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ont rencontré le Président Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, qu’ils ont été conviés à participer à de grands événements comme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tedxwomen.org/speakers/lauren-hodge/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;TEDx Women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et ont fait l’objet d’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/wl_celebs/?pid=1779" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;articles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; dans le magazine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Wired&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;br class="kix-line-break" /&gt;Consultez le site &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google.com/sciencefair" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;google.com/fête de la science&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et posez tout haut les questions qui vous intéressent pour que le monde entier vous entende. La société Google étant elle-même le fruit de l’expérimentation, la Fête de la science Google souhaite faire naître le goût de la découverte des sciences parmi la nouvelle génération de scientifiques et d’ingénieurs, récompenser le talent scientifique, favoriser l’émergence de modèles, et unir les élèves du monde entier dans leur quête de savoir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Poste par Ory Okolloh, Directrice des politiques et des relations gouvernementales, Afrique sud-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.12747489102184772"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Recently, we announced that Google+ is now &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/114199149796022210033/posts/UYs4NiRBGVD"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;available in 17 more languages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, making a total of 60 languages that Google+ supports. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;In Africa we are especially excited about 4 of these: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/?&amp;amp;hl=sw"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kiswahili&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/?&amp;amp;hl=am"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Amharic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/?&amp;amp;hl=af"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afrikaans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/?&amp;amp;hl=af"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;IsiZulu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;The interface in these languages give users a unique experience that feels closer to home and makes the core features easier to understand. &amp;nbsp;Whether in an internet cafe in Arusha or on mobile browser in Gauteng, this makes a real difference for many users.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9688226515427232"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous avons annoncé récemment que Google+ était désormais &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;disponible en 17 autres langues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, ce qui fait 60&amp;nbsp;langues au total prises en charge par Google+. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;En Afrique, nous sommes particulièrement intéressés par quatre de ces langues&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;kiswahili&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;amharic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;afrikaans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;isiZulu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;Ces interfaces localisées offrent aux internautes une expérience unique, plus proches d'eux, et rendent les principales fonctions plus simples à comprendre. &amp;nbsp;Cela fera une de différence pour de nombreux utilisateurs, qu'ils soient dans un cybercafé à Arusha ou sur un navigateur mobile à Gauteng.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9688226515427232"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Pour ces locuteurs natifs, il est désormais plus facile d'utiliser la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;nouvelle procédure d'inscription&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de Google (sélectionnez une langue dans la liste déroulante au bas de l'écran), de démarrer un Hangout en isiZulu [“Qala i-hangout”], de partager leurs photos préférées en afrikaans [“Deel jou gunsteling foto’s”], ou en swahili, ou de raconter leurs week-ends à leurs seuls amis et non à leur patron [“Jumuisha watu wengine”]. &amp;nbsp;En Amharic, utilisez l'extension Chrome &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google input tools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour poster en écriture éthiopienne. Toutes les langues seront aussi disponibles sur l'interface de navigation mobile dès ce vendredi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9688226515427232"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous sommes aussi enthousiastes quant aux nouvelles possibilités offertes aux communautés linguistiques qui utilisent Google+. Par exemple, quelqu'un apprenant le kiswahili en posant des questions en mode texte sur un forum en ligne peut se déplacer et se connecter sur un didacticiel vidéo en direct avec un groupe de locuteurs via Hangouts, tout en étant en immersion totale grâce à l'interface en kiswahili. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.9688226515427232"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Qu'ajouter à cette équation&amp;nbsp;? Nous vous invitons à conseiller ce post (avec +1), à le partager sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Plus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et à créer du buzz en changeant votre langue principale sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="about:blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;www.google.com/settings/language&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-8632364909196340018?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/Wpe7a1aTpDo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8632364909196340018?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8632364909196340018?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/Wpe7a1aTpDo/google-4-african-languages-thats-plus.html" title="Google + 4 African Languages. That’s a plus." /><author><name>Taiwo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17240642282151150879</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/03/google-4-african-languages-thats-plus.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEADRXc8eCp7ImA9WhRaF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-4628788496845606222</id><published>2012-02-20T15:45:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-20T19:52:54.970+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-20T19:52:54.970+03:00</app:edited><title>Searching for creative young minds</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(crossposted from the &lt;a href="http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/searching-for-creative-young-minds.html"&gt;European Public Policy Blog&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.7559287115000188"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Are you between 18 and 24 years old and have done something to make an impact in the world? Do you fancy the opportunity to come to the UK and meet some of the great minds of our time?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.7559287115000188"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If so, apply by March 19 to Google's youth challenge, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistyoungminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Zeitgeist Young Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, by uploading a short video telling your story, what matters to you and how you’re making a positive impact on your world. We want to find the most exceptional and inspiring young people who are helping others through science, the arts, education, leadership or innovation.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Winners will meet the leaders attending &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2012 Zeitgeist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Previous Zeitgeist speakers have included Archbishop &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Desmond Tutu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, The Black Eyed Peas’ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;will.I.am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Burberry CEO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Ahrendts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Angela Ahrendts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and Google CEO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/about/company/execs.html#larry" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Larry Page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The inaugural ‘Young Minds’ competition rewarded a series of pathbreakers, ranging from a student who launched free hip-hop dance classes for high-risk youth to a South African AIDS activist to a student who founded an organization offering IT education. A full list of last year's winning projects are found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/zeitgeistyoungminds/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Events agency &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/zeitgeistyoungminds/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Livity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is managing the contest and will pick the winners. Zeitgeist Young Minds is open to all young people ages 18-24 who are residents of South Africa, Algeria, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Uganda, Holland, Poland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Russia , Sweden, Tunisia, and Yemen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Elizabeth Dupuy, Event Manager, External Relations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.7559287115000188"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous avez entre 18 et 24 ans et vous avez fait quelque chose pour changer un peu le monde ? Cela vous tenterait de venir au Royaume-Uni et de rencontrer quelques-uns des plus grands esprits de notre temps ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Si c'est le cas, postulez avant le 19 mars au Challenge Google de la jeunesse,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistyoungminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Zeitgeist Young Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, en envoyant une courte vidéo racontant votre histoire, expliquant ce qui compte pour vous et comment vous entendez apporter votre contribution à votre monde. Nous cherchons à découvrir les jeunes les plus exceptionnels et les plus intéressants, qui aident les autres par les sciences, les arts, l'éducation, leur leadership ou l'innovation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les lauréats rencontreront les leaders participant au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zeitgeistminds.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2012 Zeitgeist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Parmi les intervenants aux précédents Zeitgeist, citons : l'archevêque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Desmond Tutu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;will.I.am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;du groupe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Black Eyed Peas, le PDG de Burberry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Ahrendts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Angela Ahrendts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et le PDG de Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/about/company/execs.html#larry" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Larry Page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Le premier concours "Jeunes esprits" (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Young Minds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;) a récompensé une série de pionniers, allant d'un étudiant qui a lancé des leçons de hip-hop gratuites pour les jeunes défavorisés à un militant sud-africain contre le SIDA, en passant par un étudiant qui a créé un organisme offrant une formation informatique. La liste complète des lauréats de l'an dernier se trouve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/zeitgeistyoungminds/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;L'agence événementielle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/zeitgeistyoungminds/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Livity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; gère le concours et désignera les lauréats. Le concours "Zeitgeist Young Minds" est ouvert à tous les jeunes âgés de 18 à 24 ans, résidant en Afrique du Sud, Algérie, Allemagne, Arabie Saoudite, Belgique, Égypte, Espagne, France, Irlande, Israël, Italie, Jordanie, Kenya, Maroc, Nigeria,Ouganda, Pays-Bas, Pologne, République Tchèque, Royaume Uni, Russie , Suède, Tunisie et Yémen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Elizabeth Dupuy, responsable événements, Relations Externes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-4628788496845606222?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/uQkpHhEL5vQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/4628788496845606222?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/4628788496845606222?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/uQkpHhEL5vQ/searching-for-creative-young-minds.html" title="Searching for creative young minds" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/fsxepwDzWFs/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/searching-for-creative-young-minds.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IAR3g-cSp7ImA9WhRaFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-5109037647995570937</id><published>2012-02-16T17:18:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T12:39:06.659+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-17T12:39:06.659+03:00</app:edited><title>Be yourself on Google Trader</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.41327552357688546"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Once upon a time, people would go to markets and bazaars to trade and interact with each-other face to face. Online marketplaces have changed that. More choice, faster search, but also more anonymity and less knowledge about the person on the other side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We wanted to make G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;oogle Trader a little bit more personal. So today, for the first time, we’re introducing a way for you to use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on Google Trader. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The next time you log in to your “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/trader/mylistings"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Listings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;” page you can choose to use your Google+ profile on Google Trader. You can then add some more information about yourself to complete your Trader profile. &amp;nbsp;People will be able to see your real name and photo from Google+, &amp;nbsp;together with your listings, and they’ll be able to visit your profile to find more about you before they contact you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="330px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IpOhef5sdDAQNoJTysXaOMIfaSRWWc0sDtawnx4oPBrIm4J-SHg2QQE6yNPUDT_gEkndk94tj8G6cWvtMemeaUC3dW5uopuWqcCX9KP671GKAynjP9I" width="532px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Using a profile on Trader is completely optional. If you prefer, your listings can remain anonymous on Trader, as they have been in the past.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Whether you live in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ke/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.gh/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ug/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Uganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; visit Trader now, connect to Google+ and join the growing community. &amp;nbsp;You can learn more on our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/trader/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Help page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and feel free to send us feedback &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRHUFFuMmI1Tlg5TW52TEFOM1R6NWc6MA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Dimitris Meretakis, Product Manager &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.41327552357688546"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Soyez vous -même sur Google Trader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.41327552357688546"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Il n'y a pas si longtemps, les gens se rendaient au marché et dans les magasins pour faire leurs courses et échanger en personne avec les autres. Les marchés en ligne ont bouleversé la donne. Davantage de choix, des recherches plus rapides, mais aussi plus d'anonymat de part et d'autre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nous avons voulu rendre Google Trader un petit peu plus personnel. Aujourd'hui, pour la première fois, nous proposons d'utiliser&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Google Trader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La prochaine fois que vous vous connectez sur votre page “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/trader/mylistings"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;My Listings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;”, vous pourrez choisir d'utiliser votre profil Google+ sur Google Trader. Vous pouvez ensuite ajouter d'autres informations pour compléter votre profil Trader. &amp;nbsp;Chacun pourra connaître votre vrai nom et voir votre photo dans Google+, ainsi que vos listes, et ils pourront consulter votre profil pour en savoir plus sur vous avant de vous contacter. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Que vous résidiez au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ke/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigéria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.gh/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou en&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ug/africa/trader"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ouganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, découvrez Trader sans attendre, connectez-vous sur Google+ et rejoignez la communauté naissante. &amp;nbsp;Vous en saurez plus en consultant notre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/trader/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;page d'aide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Et n'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos commentaires&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRHUFFuMmI1Tlg5TW52TEFOM1R6NWc6MA"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Dimitris Meretakis, Responsable produit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-5109037647995570937?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/79IQiSSts3o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5109037647995570937?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/5109037647995570937?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/79IQiSSts3o/be-yourself-on-google-trader.html" title="Be yourself on Google Trader" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/be-yourself-on-google-trader.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0IGQnczeCp7ImA9WhRaFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-8256846310919569990</id><published>2012-02-16T13:56:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-17T12:38:43.980+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-17T12:38:43.980+03:00</app:edited><title>Want to become a Google Student Ambassador in Sub-Saharan Africa?</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.5557730209548026"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.5557730209548026"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It’s that time of the year again, when we select Google Student Ambassadors (GSAs) in universities in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). &amp;nbsp;Last year, we launched the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/programs/emea/ambassador/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Student Ambassador Program&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in SSA and selected Ambassadors from 28 universities in 6 countries - Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Rwanda. &amp;nbsp;This year is particularly exciting because, in addition to the countries where we selected ambassadors last year, we are inviting university students studying in Angola, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Tanzania to apply to the program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Ambassador class of 2012 has helped to bring their university communities online, by using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Map Maker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and uploading over 12 SSA universities to Google Maps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="165px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/I8zSyp-WObXnNkWpYvFNaNwFESKkLB-QVj5uPG-SegJCL8HC68iAIIly0A3XT-Bx_MRgkVFSRTHWiQPrqh93W6-Dyyq4EshjVJRVbXz42TKmkFYAwlA" width="273px;" /&gt;&lt;img height="165px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9GxbioCF4Cgas154KZj78mwCPfr4NM6SHBvgLretsbpNcC6KqFuCtqkohwgIOG0HrzYuh7TiFnMm2d-V5lwB0jWofmbYTnetoRl1Bre6N3cfHfOVOiM" width="223px;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Apps Training at Kenyatta University, Kenya &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;                    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Gmail Launch at Mbarara University, Uganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ambassadors are student leaders on campus who make it their mission to use technology to make a difference, not only in their universities, but also in their communities. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;They teach students how to use Google tools, such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Apps for Education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Search for Educators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and in selected markets, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/education" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;YouTube for School&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to improve their daily learning experience. Over the last year, we have seen a great improvement in how university students in Africa use technology in their academics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Are you keen? For more information on the Google Ambassador Program and other student opportunities in SSA, visit our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/universityprograms/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;University Programs website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;We are now accepting applications to the program; eligible students can submit it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/B2SjX" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; before 1st March 2012. &amp;nbsp;We look forward to hearing from you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Obum Ekeke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Talent and Outreach Programs Team, Sub-Saharan Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.5557730209548026"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous voulez devenir un étudiant ambassadeur de Google en Afrique sub-saharienne (ASS) ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Comme chaque année, voici venu le moment où nous sélectionnons les étudiants ambassadeurs de Google (GSA) dans les universités d'Afrique sub-saharienne. L'an dernier, nous avons lancé le&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/proscho/programs/emea/ambassador/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Programme Étudiant ambassadeur de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;en ASS et sélectionné des ambassadeurs de 28 universités réparties dans six pays : Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ouganda, Afrique du Sud et Rwanda. &amp;nbsp;Cette année est particulièrement enthousiasmante car, en plus des pays où nous avions déjà des ambassadeurs l'an dernier, nous invitons les étudiant des universités d'Angola, du Cameroun, de la Côte d’Ivoire, d'Éthiopie, du Sénégal et de la Tanzanie à postuler au programme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les ambassadeurs du millésime 2012 ont aidé à mettre en ligne leur communauté universitaire : avec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/mapmaker"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Map Maker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, ils ont pu intégrer plus de 12 universités d'ASS sur Google Maps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les ambassadeurs sont des étudiants leaders sur le campus, qui se donnent pour mission de valoriser leur université ainsi que leurs communautés grâce à la technologie. Ils apprennent aux autres étudiants à utiliser les outils Google, tels que&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Apps for Education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Search for Educators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et, dans certaines régions,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/education"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;YouTube for School&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour améliorer leur apprentissage au quotidien. Au cours de l'année dernière, nous avons constaté que les étudiants en Afrique ont beaucoup progressé dans leur façon d'utiliser la technologie dans le cadre de leurs études.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous êtes partant ? Pour en savoir plus sur le programme Ambassadeur de Google et sur les autres opportunités proposées aux étudiants d'ASS, consultez notre&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/africa/universityprograms/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;site des Formations et programmes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Nous enregistrons en ce moment les candidatures pour le programme ; les étudiants éligibles peuvent postuler&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://goo.gl/B2SjX"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; avant le 1er mars 2012. &amp;nbsp;Nous attendons de vos nouvelles avec impatience !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Obum Ekeke, Équipe Programmes Talent &amp;amp; Outreach, Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-8256846310919569990?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/HdCSEXOHCUg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8256846310919569990?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8256846310919569990?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/HdCSEXOHCUg/want-to-become-google-student.html" title="Want to become a Google Student Ambassador in Sub-Saharan Africa?" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/want-to-become-google-student.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUAGQXkzeSp7ImA9WhRaE00.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-9162230982276331419</id><published>2012-02-15T15:06:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-15T15:08:40.781+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-15T15:08:40.781+03:00</app:edited><title>Next Stop for the g|Day Train: Nigeria and Ghana in March!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.01680414960719645"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;It seems like the g|Day train is constantly moving, and while the train is moving away from the stops in g|Tanzania and g|Ethiopia this week, we have already planned our next destination: Nigeria and Ghana!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2012 will be the third year that we run g|Days in Nigeria and Ghana, and so we’re expanding the program to cover topics for all different levels and savviness of developers, webmasters, business professionals and marketers. Sessions will emphasize locally relevant topics and showcase successful developers and businesses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Besides the usual tracks, there will also be advanced hands-on code labs on Google App Engine and Android development for a limited number of developers. To add to the fun, we are having Google+ Hackathons for the advanced developers. Last but not least, we’re hosting a special panel of successful women at Google and beyond, to bring together women and technology. Stay up-to-date on the latest news by checking the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; websites or by following the event hashtag (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gnigeria"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gnigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gghana"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;) on Google+!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Nigeria will take place on March 15th and 16th at the Civic Center in Lagos, and g|Ghana will be on March 19th and 20th at Alisa Hotel in Accra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;So, chale, are you excited and ready to come? Sign-up for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] before all the spots fill up!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Posted by Melina Mattos and Chukwuemeka Afigbo, Program Managers for Google Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.01680414960719645"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Prochaine escale pour 2 nouvelles journées &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Day : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Nigeria et Ghana en Mars !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.01680414960719645" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;La locomotive g|Day est constamment en mouvement, et après une toute récente escale pour g|Tanzanie et g|Ethiopie, nous avons déjà mis le cap sur nos prochaines destinations: le Nigeria et le Ghana!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Cette année sera la troisième itération de nos événements g|Day au Nigeria et au Ghana. Nous élargirons donc le programme afin de toucher des développeurs, webmasters, professionnels et spécialistes du marketing de tous niveaux et centres d’intérêts . Les sessions mettront l'accent sur des sujets pertinents au niveau local et sur des développeurs et des entreprises prospères.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;En plus des ateliers habituels, nous inclurons, pour un nombre limité de développeurs, des travaux pratiques avancés de codage sur Google App Engine et Android. &amp;nbsp;Mais ce n’est pas tout : Nous organiserons aussi un Hackaton Google+ pour les plus avancés, mais aussi une table ronde regroupant des femmes qui ont réussi, à Google et ailleurs, pour une discussion autour de la technologie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Restez informé : Vous trouverez toutes les informations nécessaires sur les sites internet de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou en suivant les hashtag des événements (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gnigeria" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gnigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; ou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23gghana" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Google +!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Vous tarde-t-il d’y être ? Alors &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;inscrivez-vous sans attendre à&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gnigeria2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;g|Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/gghana2012/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;] p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;our avoir une chance de voir votre candidature retenue. Au plaisir de vous accueillir bientôt !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Poste par Melina Mattos et Chukwuemeka Afigbo, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Responsables Programme, Google Afrique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-9162230982276331419?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/Mu4EONW0BiA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/9162230982276331419?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/9162230982276331419?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/Mu4EONW0BiA/next-stop-for-gday-train-nigeria-and.html" title="Next Stop for the g|Day Train: Nigeria and Ghana in March!" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/next-stop-for-gday-train-nigeria-and.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkcAQH4yeCp7ImA9WhRaEkk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-8454049214562796449</id><published>2012-02-14T14:38:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-14T20:20:41.090+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-14T20:20:41.090+03:00</app:edited><title>Falling in love with the Google+ API</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span id="internal-source-marker_0.985756134847179"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Attention developers! Of the 90+ Google APIs, which is your favorite? We know that we fell in love with the Google+ API after we saw the amazing applications built from the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-developers-improve-their-skills.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hackathons in South Africa and Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. We want to continue spreading the love!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This Valentine’s Day we’re thrilled to announce that we are holding three more Google+ Hackathons with the support of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gtugs.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Technology User Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (GTUGs) in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117620641470438104052/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107215703956182292201/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112227844855698647164/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you are ready to wow us with your application, please apply for the event using these forms: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdha1FBd1pCMU41NUNWRFdHa3JDQ2c6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on March 10 at the 4th floor of Solis House, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDFpcVJLM05iYWJOazFaMEd1UWFIVkE6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on March 17 at the CCHub Nigeria, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJCazJ5dnZ1RFhCLUQ3ZnFrZWF3d1E6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on March 21 at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Remember to start today on getting those creative juices flowing! Familiarize yourself with the API and review &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/+/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;these resources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Begin gathering ideas and coding a little. Take advantage of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVFdmVudBjU9wcM/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ Platform Office Hours &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;on the 15th of February. If you have any questions, please address them to us in our Google+ Hangout on February 23. Use the Hackathon to perfect your application and win one of the multiple prizes we will be awarding - including a ticket for the overall winning application to Google’s premiere developer event, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-io-2012-extended-to-three-days.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Any updates relating to these Hackathons and the Hangout will be posted on Google+ (of course!) using the hashtag &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23hackgplus" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Stay tuned!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Posted by Melina Mattos, Program Manager for Google Africa and Bob Aman, Program Manager for Developer Relations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;====&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tomber amoureux de l'API Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Développeurs, cela vous concerne ! Parmi les plus de 90 API Google, quelle est votre favorite ? Nous savons que l'API Google+ embrase tous les cœurs, après avoir vu les étonnantes applications construites depuis les&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-developers-improve-their-skills.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hackathons en Afrique du Sud et au Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Nous voulons continuer à répandre la passion !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;En ce jour de la Saint-Valentin, nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que nous organisons trois nouveaux Hackathons Google+ avec le soutien des&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gtugs.org/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;groupes d’utilisateurs de technologies Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(GTUG) à&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117620641470438104052/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107215703956182292201/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112227844855698647164/posts" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Si vous êtes prêt à nous surprendre avec votre application, inscrivez-vous à l'événement en remplissant ces formulaires :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdha1FBd1pCMU41NUNWRFdHa3JDQ2c6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kampala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; le 10 mars au 4e étage de Solis House,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDFpcVJLM05iYWJOazFaMEd1UWFIVkE6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Lagos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; le 17 mars au CCHub Nigeria et&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJCazJ5dnZ1RFhCLUQ3ZnFrZWF3d1E6MA#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Accra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; le 12 mars au Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;N'oubliez pas de laisser dès aujourd'hui libre cours à vos talents créatifs ! Familiarisez-vous avec l'API et découvrez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/+/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ces ressources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Commencez à collecter des idées et à coder un peu. Profitez de la plate-forme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVFdmVudBjU9wcM/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ Platform Office Hours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;le 15 février. Si vous avez des questions, posez-les-nous lors de notre Hangout Google+ le 23 février. Utilisez le Hackathon pour parfaire votre application et gagner un de nombreux prix que nous décernerons, dont, pour l'application gagnante, une invitation pour l'événement des développeurs, une première de Google,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-io-2012-extended-to-three-days.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Toute nouvelle information sur ces Hackathons ou le Hangout sera postée sur Google+ (bien sûr !), à l'aide du hashtag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/s/%23hackgplus" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Restez branché !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;Post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;è&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt; par Melina Mattos, Directeur programme Google Afrique, et Bob Aman, Directeur programme Relations avec les développeurs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-8454049214562796449?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/hOpyDH-Ftjc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8454049214562796449?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/8454049214562796449?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/hOpyDH-Ftjc/falling-in-love-with-google-api.html" title="Falling in love with the Google+ API" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/falling-in-love-with-google-api.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8AQXk5cSp7ImA9WhRbFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-1194480548071220905</id><published>2012-02-06T10:17:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T10:20:40.729+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-06T10:20:40.729+03:00</app:edited><title>Street View comes to beautiful Botswana</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6672364277765155"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;A new African country is set to be showcased to internet users around the world as we bring &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.za/streetview/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; to the beautiful southern African nation of Botswana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In the coming weeks, our Google cars will start driving around this vast country. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Images collected by our cars will be processed and carefully stitched together, a process that can take several months. They will be made available at a later date in Street View on Google Maps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Our initial Street View driving in Botswana will primarily be focused on t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;he major urban areas of Gaborone and Francistown. Some of the country’s stunning destinations and wildlife reserves will also be photographed, with our cars set to drive around &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=-18.704789,24.614868&amp;amp;spn=0.825979,1.454315&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=10&amp;amp;vpsrc=6&amp;amp;lci=com.panoramio.all"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Chobe National Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Moremi Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, &amp;nbsp;Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, and the Nxai salt pans. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6672364277765155"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View is a popular free feature of Google Maps which&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; we launched in 2007 and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; is already available in more than 30 countries around the world. It is also available in Google Earth and on Google Maps for Mobile. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View has put imagery of some of the world’s most interesting and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html#unesco-world-heritage&amp;amp;stonehenge-avebury-and-associated-sites"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #000099; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;significant destinations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; online for everyone to virtually explore. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6672364277765155"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Following the launch of Street View in South Africa just before the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Botswana will become only the second African country to be on Street View.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Posted by Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, Policy Manager, South Africa and Julie Taylor, Communications Manager, Sub Saharan Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.039428276708349586"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les merveilles du Botswana bientôt sur Street View&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.039428276708349586"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les internautes du monde entier pourront bientôt découvrir les paysages magnifiques du Botswana, situé dans le sud du continent africain, mis en valeur sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.za/streetview/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Dans les semaines à venir, les voitures Google se mettront à arpenter et photographier ce vaste pays. Les images seront ensuite traitées et soigneusement recomposées, une tâche qui peut nécessiter plusieurs mois. Elles seront mises à disposition plus tard sur Street View dans Google Maps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Une fois lancé, Street View permettra aux internautes de visualiser et de naviguer en vue 360&amp;nbsp;° dans les rues et les sites du Botswana. Vous pouvez jeter un coup d'œil sur un restaurant avant d'y aller, élaborer des plans de voyage, organiser des points de rencontre ou obtenir quelques tuyaux pour vos devoirs de géographie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les entreprises du Botswana peuvent aussi tirer parti de la technologie Street View en intégrant directement Google Maps à leur site, sans frais. C’est un bon moyen pour un hôtel, une boutique ou un restaurant de se faire connaître.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nos premiers trajets Street View au Botswana seront principalement axés sur les principales zones urbaines de Gaborone et de Francistown. Quelques-unes des destinations les plus étonnantes du pays et les réserves sauvages seront également photographiées, avec nos véhicules équipés pour circuler dans &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=-18.704789,24.614868&amp;amp;spn=0.825979,1.454315&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=10&amp;amp;vpsrc=6&amp;amp;lci=com.panoramio.all"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;le parc national de Chobe,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; les réserve de Moremi Game et de Kalahari Game, le parc Kgalagadi Transfrontier et les marais salants de Nxai. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Street View est un module gratuit très populaire de Google Maps, lancé en 2007, et déjà disponible dans plus de 30&amp;nbsp;pays à travers le monde. Il est également disponible dans Google Earth et dans Google Maps for Mobile. Street View a mis en ligne les images de quelques-unes des destinations les plus intéressantes et les &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/gallery.html#unesco-world-heritage&amp;amp;stonehenge-avebury-and-associated-sites"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;plus significatives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, que chacun peut explorer à sa guise. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Après le lancement de Street View en Afrique du Sud juste avant la Coupe du Monde de football 2010, Botswana sera maintenant le deuxième pays africain à être visible sur Street View.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Posté par Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, responsable de la stratégie sud-africaine, et Julie Taylor, responsable des communications, Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-1194480548071220905?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/r3pNl7kNt7Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1194480548071220905?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/1194480548071220905?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/r3pNl7kNt7Q/street-view-comes-to-beautiful-botswana.html" title="Street View comes to beautiful Botswana" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/street-view-comes-to-beautiful-botswana.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUYNQ34zeCp7ImA9WhRbFUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-7807421376924067062</id><published>2012-02-02T14:02:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T10:26:32.080+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-06T10:26:32.080+03:00</app:edited><title>2012 global award winners RISE to the top</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.2788339606486261"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;(cross posted from &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-global-award-winners-rise-to-top.html"&gt;The official Google blog&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Our business at Google is rooted in STEM and CS, so we’re passionate about supporting organizations that are expanding access to these fields, especially for students who might not have the opportunity otherwise. The annual&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/edu/rise"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;program supports organizations running innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and CS (computer science) enrichment programs for K-12 and university students around the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img height="129px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dQJWfbRFhvTEgKhp41iNmVayg7U5QfV0d1TBbmB9zymHcpq_2BeCGgbayE9s_snaBjAKSP1M8CLcEYidBituIG_OPqRj_TuBQwmSmvnpbNmw-oI24gs" width="500px;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;This year, the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/edu" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google in Education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;group received a record number of inspiring applications for RISE. We expanded the awards to include Sub-Saharan Africa, and in total, we’re awarding more than $340,000 in funding to 13 U.S., eight European and five African organizations. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Our recipients are diverse, ranging from girls robotics teams building high-tech machinery in Nairobi to after-school programs that have students configuring cluster computers in Salt Lake City. Below are just a few of the outstanding organizations receiving RISE awards this year for their efforts in advancing CS and STEM education: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.getset.org/" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Santa Clara Valley Society of Women Engineers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;San Jose, California.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; GetSET is a program created for underrepresented ethnic minority girls in the San Francisco Bay Area to expose them to engineering while building self confidence through leadership workshops, tours of technology companies and participation in team-building exercises&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.saturdayacademy.org/" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Saturday Academy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;Portland, Oregon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Saturday Academy serves 2nd-12th grade students from Oregon and SW Washington with high quality and creative learning opportunities taught by STEM experts, including hands-on, real world activities that create meaningful connections between academic content and practical application.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://frauennetz.fim.uni-passau.de/" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Frauennetzwerk Informatik at Universität Passau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;Passau, Germany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; University students from Passau act as ambassadors for computer science, engineering and math by reaching out to juniors and seniors at their former high schools and running workshops on topics like robotics and mobile app development. Ambassadors go on to serve as mentors to the students throughout their high school and college careers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dcu.ie/ctyi/access.shtml" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Centre for Academic Achievement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;Dublin, Ireland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; This center runs free after school educational classes in a university setting for bright primary school students from disadvantaged areas. Each term, students from 32 local primary schools have the opportunity to study science, math and engineering subjects and are encouraged to pursue college degrees in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Sub Saharan Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savsign.org/" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Savana Signatures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;Tamale, Ghana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Savana Signatures educates youth and women, building their capacity to access information for the benefit of Ghana’s social and economic development.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fundibots.com/" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Fundi Bots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;Kampala, Uganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; Fundi Bots is a technology outreach program for students in high school and university that uses robotics to introduce young children to the endless possibilities of technology in both their day-to-day lives and potential careers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Organizations interested in applying for 2013 funding can sign up for more information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&amp;amp;formkey=dEVzUU43d3dkS2paRTNxNWJYWHJWb0E6MQ#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We look forward to hearing about all the great work being done in CS and STEM education.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Roxana Shirkhoda, K-12 Education Outreach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les lauréats 2012 des "Global Awards" se hissent au sommet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Notre métier chez Google est enraciné dans les sciences, la technologie, l'ingénierie et les mathématiques (STEM), d'une part, l'informatique (CS), d'autre part ; nous sommes donc particulièrement intéressés par les organisations qui développent l'accès à ces disciplines, notamment pour les étudiants qui, à défaut, n'en auraient pas l'opportunité. Le programme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/edu/rise" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;RISE (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Roots in Science and Engineering)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; soutient les organisations proposant des programmes d'enrichissement innovants en STEM (science, technologie, ingénierie et maths) et CS (informatique), pour les élèves du primaire, du secondaire et du supérieur à travers le monde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Cette année, le groupe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/edu" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google dans l'enseignement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a reçu un nombre record de candidatures intéressantes pour RISE. Nous avons augmenté le nombre de prix pour intégrer l'Afrique sub-saharienne, et nous versons au total plus de 340 000 $ à 13 organisations aux États-Unis, huit en Europe et cinq en Afrique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les bénéficiaires sont divers, allant d'équipes féminines de robotique construisant des machines high-tech à Nairobi, à des programmes extra-scolaires avec des élèves configurant des ordinateurs en cluster à Salt Lake City. Voici quelques-unes des organisations remarquables ayant reçu des RISE Awards cette année pour leurs efforts en faveur de l'enseignement de l'informatique et des STEM :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;États-Unis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.getset.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Santa Clara Valley Society of Women Engineers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, San Jose, Californie. GetSET est un programme créé pour les femmes des minorités ethniques sous-représentées de la région de la baie de San Francisco, pour les initier à l'ingénierie tout en renforçant leur confiance en elles via des ateliers de leadership, des visites de sociétés de technologie et la participation à des exercices de construction d'équipes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.saturdayacademy.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Saturday Academy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Portland, Oregon. La Saturday Academy propose aux élèves des niveaux 2 à 12 de l'Oregon et de SW Washington des opportunités de formations créatives et de grande qualité, assurées par des experts en STEM, dont des activités pratiques, correspondant à des situations réelles qui créent des liens pertinents entre les contenus universitaires et leur application pratique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://frauennetz.fim.uni-passau.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Frauennetzwerk Informatik à l'université de Passau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Passau, Allemagne Les étudiants de Passau jouent le rôle d'ambassadeurs pour l'informatique, l'ingénierie et les maths en contactant les juniors et les seniors de leur ancien collège ou lycée et en animant des ateliers sur des sujets tels que la robotique ou le développement d'applications mobiles. Les ambassadeurs servent de tuteurs aux élèves tout au long de leur parcours scolaire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dcu.ie/ctyi/access.shtml"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Centre for Academic Achievement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Dublin, Irlande. Ce centre propose des cours extra-scolaires gratuits dans un milieu universitaire, aux élèves les plus brillants des écoles primaires, issus des zones défavorisées. Chaque trimestre, les élèves de 32 écoles primaires locales ont l'opportunité d'étudier les sciences, les maths et l'ingénierie, et sont encouragés à poursuivre des études secondaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savsign.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Savana Signatures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Tamale, Ghana. Savana Signatures éduque les jeunes et les femmes, leur donnant les capacités d'accéder à l'information, au bénéfice du développement social et économique du Ghana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://fundibots.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Fundi Bots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Kampala, Ouganda. Fundi Bots est un programme de sensibilisation à la technologie destiné aux élèves de l'enseignement secondaire et aux étudiants, qui utilise la robotique pour initier les enfants aux possibilités infinies qu'offre la technologie à la fois dans la vie quotidienne et pour leur future carrière.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les organisations désireuses de postuler pour 2013 sont invitées à s'inscrire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&amp;amp;formkey=dEVzUU43d3dkS2paRTNxNWJYWHJWb0E6MQ#gid=0" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour avoir toutes les informations utiles. Nous attendons avec impatience d'avoir de vos nouvelles sur les remarquables réalisations en matière d'enseignement des CS et des STEM.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Roxana Shirkhoda, K-12 Education Outreach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-7807421376924067062?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/vn4_UPjjYgE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7807421376924067062?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7807421376924067062?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/vn4_UPjjYgE/2012-global-award-winners-rise-to-top.html" title="2012 global award winners RISE to the top" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/02/2012-global-award-winners-rise-to-top.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0cCRHo7eSp7ImA9WhRbEE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-2585018739215432397</id><published>2012-01-31T14:21:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T14:24:25.401+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-31T14:24:25.401+03:00</app:edited><title>African developers improve their skills with Google+ and Hangouts</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ever imagined&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ8dmARDPo" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;remotely controlling a camera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and a laser using a Google+ Hangout? Or hanging out with friends online to listen to and rate music together? It &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;almost seems like something from the future, but these are actually some of the applications that African developers created at two G+ Hackathons held in Johannesburg and Nairobi late last year. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The G+ South Africa Hackathon was held on November 2 at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://hermes.wits.ac.za/Enterprise/pdh/index.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Wits Professional Development Hub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in partnership with the Johannesburg Google Technology User Group (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/chapter.jsp?id=779001" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;JHB-GTUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;) around &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/gsouthafrica20/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;G|South Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. The G+ Kenya Hackathon was held in partnership with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2011/12/google-api-hackathon/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in Nairobi on December 10.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img height="255px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/whFcSj-1vl-vyfgY71T5AIvpozRNxyj0yvlmOYqqLtS7VLjAkOeJlFxM1xnsYvj4JxQ3Eb85DdUARDQgYrD1XR49KhVD8TEVK9LPDzNkT3cnsql-zP4" width="381px;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Googler helping Kenyan developers work on their applications&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Googlers presented the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google+ API&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and joined via&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hangout&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;from Zurich to answer questions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; The developers mainly worked on incorporating &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+1/button/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+1 buttons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and various Google+ features like Hangouts into websites and web apps. The Johannesburg GTUG/House4Hack project utilized a previously assembled laser system. The winning team made up of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117200023118897007230/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Schalk Heunis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/103392016560023386646" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Yusuf Kaka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105349722296626420678" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Anthony Isaakidis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #000099; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110893724960073571674" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hans Christian von Stockhausen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; walked away with a Samsung Galaxy S phone which would be utilized by the House 4 Hack community in Johannesburg. The winning team in Kenya developed a Last.fm music listening app.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find out more about the Hackathon with pictures and thoughts tagged &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23gzahackathon" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gzahackathon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; on Google+. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gtugs.org/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Technology User Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (GTUGs) support users of Google Technology all over the world with over 40 &amp;nbsp;groups across Sub-Saharan Africa. As more developers in the region adopt the G+ API, there will be more hackathons organized in conjunction with various GTUGs and local technology hubs. Stay tuned to your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/directory" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;local GTUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; for the next one!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.36386177432723343"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les développeurs africains améliorent leurs compétences avec Google et Hangouts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Avez-vous déjà imaginé&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZ8dmARDPo"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;télécommander une caméra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et un laser avec un Hangout Google+&amp;nbsp;? Ou encore rencontrer des amis en ligne pour écouter de la musique ensemble et donner votre avis&amp;nbsp;? Voilà qui a l'air de sortir d'un film de science-fiction mais c'est pourtant bien l'une des applications que des développeurs africains ont créées au cours des deux Hackathons G+ qui se sont tenus en fin d'année dernière à Johannesburg et Nairobi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Le Hackathon G+ d'Afrique du Sud s'est déroulé le 2 novembre au &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://hermes.wits.ac.za/Enterprise/pdh/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Wits Professional Development Hub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; en partenariat avec le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/chapter.jsp?id=779001"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;JHB-GTUG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; (Johannesburg Google Technology User Group) à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/gsouthafrica20/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;G|Afrique du Sud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Le Hackathon G+ Kenya a été organisé en partenariat avec le &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2011/12/google-api-hackathon/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;iHub&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de Nairobi le 10 décembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les Googlers ont tout d'abord présenté&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;l'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;API Google+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;et rejoint le groupe via&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hangout&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;depuis Zurich pour répondre à leurs questions. Le travail des développeurs a essentiellement consisté à incorporer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/+1/button/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;des boutons +1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, et diverses fonctions Google+ telles que des Hangouts dans des sites et des applis Web. Le projet Johannesburg GTUG/House4Hack a utilisé un système laser déjà monté. L'équipe gagnante, composée de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117200023118897007230/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Schalk Heunis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/103392016560023386646"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Yusuf Kaka&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105349722296626420678"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Anthony Isaakidis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110893724960073571674"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Hans Christian von Stockhausen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; a remporté un téléphone Samsung Galaxy S, qui servira à la communauté House 4 Hack de Johannesburg. L'équipe gagnante du Kenya a développé une application pour écouter de la musique Last.fm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Venez découvrir l’Hackathon en images et les commentaires sous le libellé &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23gzahackathon"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#gzahackathon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23hackgplus"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;#hackgplus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; sur Google+. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gtugs.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Les groupes GTUG (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Technology User Groups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;) apportent leur soutien aux utilisateurs de la technologie Google dans le monde entier. Une quarantaine d'entre eux se trouvent en Afrique sub-saharienne. De plus en plus de développeurs de la région choisissent l'API G+. Il y aura donc de plus en plus de Hackathons organisés en collaboration avec des GTUG et des hubs technologiques locaux. Restez en contact avec votre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gtugs.org/directory"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;GTUG local&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; pour ne pas manquer le prochain&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Ato Ulzen-Appiah, directeur de programme pour l'Afrique sub-saharienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-2585018739215432397?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/uSjw9y2NEas" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2585018739215432397?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/2585018739215432397?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/uSjw9y2NEas/african-developers-improve-their-skills.html" title="African developers improve their skills with Google+ and Hangouts" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/01/african-developers-improve-their-skills.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8BRn47cCp7ImA9WhRUFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6796894934389505998.post-7582326821620907691</id><published>2012-01-26T16:00:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T16:00:57.008+03:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-01-26T16:00:57.008+03:00</app:edited><title>Google Trader gets a new look on mobile phones</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6796894934389505998#french(blog post number here)"&gt;En Français&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Back in November we launched a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-trader-launches-in-nigeria-and.html" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;new, cleaner, and simpler look&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; for the web version of Google Trader. &amp;nbsp;We know how important mobile phones are for accessing information in Africa, so we’ve worked hard to bring the new design to the mobile version too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Today we’re announcing a new mobile version of Google Trader &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.gh/africa/trader/m" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ke/africa/trader/m" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader/m" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigeria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ug/africa/trader/m" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Uganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. We’ve reorganized the mobile site to reduce clutter and emphasize the most important information. And we haven’t forgotten those users with smaller phones either. &amp;nbsp;We believe that Google Trader should be accessible and easy to use, no matter what phone you’re using, so we’ve tried to bring a great experience even on phones with narrower screens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.39101791591383517"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Google Trader&amp;nbsp;: un nouveau design pour les téléphones portables&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;En novembre dernier, nous avons lancé un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-trader-launches-in-nigeria-and.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;nouveau designe, plus net et plus simple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; de la version web de Google Trader. &amp;nbsp;Nous savons l'importance des téléphones portables pour accéder à l'information en Afrique, et nous avons donc travaillé dur pour adapter le nouveau design à la version mobile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Aujourd'hui, nous annonçons le nouvelle version mobile de Google Trader. Nous avons réorganisé le site mobile pour réduire l'encombrement et mettre en valeur les informations les plus importantes. Et nous n'avons pas oublié les détenteurs de téléphones de petite taille. Nous sommes persuadés que Google Trader doit être accessible et facile à utiliser, quel que soit le téléphone que vous utilisez. Nous avons donc tenté d'offrir une belle expérience même sur les téléphones dotés d'un petit écran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Jetez un coup d'oeil sur le nouveau Google Trader sur téléphone portable pour votre pays&amp;nbsp;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.gh/africa/trader/m"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ghana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ke/africa/trader/m"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Kenya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com.ng/africa/trader/m"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Nigéria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; et &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.co.ug/africa/trader/m"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Ouganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, et dites-nous ce que vous en pensez&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posté par Mina Razaghpour, ingénieur logiciel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6796894934389505998-7582326821620907691?l=google-africa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~4/BLb3ACOIn40" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7582326821620907691?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6796894934389505998/posts/default/7582326821620907691?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGoogleAfricaBlog/~3/BLb3ACOIn40/google-trader-gets-new-look-on-mobile.html" title="Google Trader gets a new look on mobile phones" /><author><name>Amanda Gicharu</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18198726852315412197</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-trader-gets-new-look-on-mobile.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

