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Genesis Tinshu represents HINT at Kabissa Workshop in Lagos, Nigeria

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Tinshu Genesis G. Executive Director of HINT was once again one of 16 West African NGO leaders selected and sponsored to attend Kabissa’s second Training-of-Trainers program dedicated to using the Time to Get Online curriculum to advance the use of ICTs in their own communities.

By the end of the Training-of-Trainers workshop, participants would be able to:

  • Comfortably lead a Time to Get Online workshop for their own communities
  • Apply new facilitation skills to all of their trainings
  • Develop a sustainability plan for conducting future Time to Get Online workshops.

Like all other participants, Tinshu returned with 3o copies of the Time to Get Online Training manuals. He hopes to be able to transfer the rich training to Local NGO leaders in his country.

See Photographs of the workshop.

Read more about the workshop on the Time to Get Online site.

HINT's work acknowledged by Cameroon Government

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The Minister Delegate at Cameroon’s Ministry of External Relations has written a letter of congratulations to Tinshu Genesis Gemuh Executive Director of Helps International (HINT) in recognition of the Prize he received from the hands of the Mayor of Rome as well as HINT’s efforts to help bridge the digital divide by providing access and training to the new ICTs.

The letter dated January 24 2005 with reference number 00219/DIPL/D3/SDCNG/ONG was received as a big surprise as all of us at HINT did not know that the government was aware of our little efforts to ease access to information and communication in our local communities.

One of our major projects is providing access and training to information and communication technologies through computers connected to the internet. We have two main levels of training: Basic and Advanced.

You can download a copy of the ministerial letter (link to a pdf document).

Genesis Tinshu represents HINT at Africa Source II Jan 8-15 2005 in Uganda

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Tinshu Genesis of HINT Cameron was selected from several hundreds of applicants to attend Tactical Tech’s Africa Source II. Africa Source II was an eight day hands-on workshop aimed at building the technical skills of those working with and within NGOs on the continent. It took place in one of the most beautiful parts of the Kalangala Island on Victoria Lake during the beginning of January 2006. Africa Source II focused on how technology, in particular Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) can be integrated into the project work of NGO’s. Over a hundred thirty NGO Support Professionals and NGO Staff working at the local level across the region were present at this meeting. Together with a handful of field leaders from Africa, Europe, North America and Asia, they explored how technology can best serve the non-profit sector in Africa both in terms of access and content.

With the knowledge acquired, Tinshu and his team will be exploring ways and possibilities of switching over to the Open Source applications. With HINT’s low spec machines, it will be easier for example to set up ‘thin client’ with free & open source software as opposed to using very expensive proprietary options.

There are photos available of the workshop.

HINT's IT Project wins Global Junior Challenge 2004 prize

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Our Project ComICT Centre , emerged one of the few winners in the prestigious, international, and highly competitive Global Junior Challenge on November 19, 2004 in Rome. Tinshu Genesis Gemuh, President of Helps International (HINT) Cameroon who also doubles as project director received the prizes from the hands of Mr. Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome on Friday November 19, 2004 at the Julio Cesare Hall of the Campidoglio in Rome. The prizes included a certificate of recognition, a beautiful metallic award with our project name inscribed on it in addition to a €5,000 cash prize under the Small Grants scheme.

The Global Junior challenge is a global award promoted by the Digital Youth Consortium, a non-profit organization founded by the municipality of Rome and six other ICT companies. The intention of the award dedicated to young people and to schools, is to identify and reward best practices on the use of new technologies in education and the training of youngsters. An international jury selects finalist and winners are announced during the award ceremony that takes place in Rome at the Campidoglio city hall.

There are photos available of the ceremony in Rome. You can also read more about the Global Junior Chalene on their website.

Caroline Fuseau of Computer Aid UK, visits HINT

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Caroline Fuseau, Africa Program Officer for Computer Aid International (CAI) visited HINT on June 17, 2004 so as to have first hand information on the progress of the ComICT Centre Project. During her visit, she was accompanied by Tinshu Genesis Gemuh, President of HINT Cameroon and Project Director to some government and private services including the Teachers’ Resource Centre, Provincial Delegation of Education, among others. Her visits culminated in a meeting with over 30 leaders of NGOs, schools, and community organizations interested in using computers in their work. By the time she left Buea, she was deeply satisfied by the work that had been done on the ComICT Centre project and announced that Computer Aid will be willing to help ship the computers needed for the ComICT Centre Project if HINT Cameroon will only provide shipping and handling charges.

CAI is the world’s leading donor of refurbished computers to the developing world. Their goal is to help bridge the digital divide.

There are photos available of caroline’s visit.

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