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For a bit of time now, I have been discussing with Alex Lindsay founder at Pixel corps http://www.pixelcorps.com, our first time meeting was when he came over to London for the salesforce.com event and the his company saw to the event live streaming and recording and as usual he took the opportunity to meet with PXC members in London area, I met with him and ended up working with him on the same event where I was manning the live recording of the event, it was my first time using the H.264 live stream recording hardware/software, it was an experience and we recorded 100% success. However, not only did we work together, we also found a common ground and got talking about CG and animation in African leading us to discuss Animation West Africa now known as AWA Foundation, there and then I could see his passion for development work in the Media and CG in industry in Africa. Of course you will alwaysfind non Africans who claim to have the passion for Africa and certainly anyone may say anything, however I saw that he said it differently and with more willingness, and even if he had to move over from US to live in an African nation with his family according to him (but why would anyone want to do that I asked myself)

On his next visit to London, I was on ground to meet with him once again and this time we had more time to talk about the future and the possibilities, then I was able to gather from him about Rwanda, the African nationthat got torn apart by one of the most terrible genocide in history where in just 3 months it is reported that an estimated 800,000 people were massacred back in 1994... ermm now that is really shocking to imagine.

Well, this dark period in Rwanda history came and thankfully is gone now however barely 20 years after this terrible periods the country is moving in the opposite and positive direction to what they were known for. Alex tells me of why he is thinking of the big step, at the moment Rwanda is set to become the technology hub of Africa, with fibre optic cables transmitting up to about 10mbps internet speed at least said to have been laid to every single locality in the country, the government is working with Alex company in the move set up this technology and digital training hub, Alex and his American partner who lives and spends most of his times in Rwanda where he is building up the training facility and system from where young enthusiasts are built into professionals in a couple of months via highly standardized training process and releasing them back into the system to build others after them and doing this they hope to trigger off the spread of good knowledge directly and indirectly in African as a whole plus eventually working with these people to take on the perceived developed media industry, yeah I know this seem a bit far fetched but its is not and given the next 2 years according to Alex, this will become a reality.

I could go on to talk about other things we discussed but that's not be necessary since it would bore you downwith so many unnecessary details , however pls do have a look at this link I found this link on his Google+ page http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/how-did-rwanda-cut-poverty-so-much.html, it tells more abut the positive things from Rwanda but in a different way.

Please enjoy the read and let me know what you think.

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