Finally, a book that reminds humanity how to want and how to abound.

Written by a man who has dedicated his whole life to the whys and wherefores of economic activities that inevitably lead to prosperity.

Erik Reinert has written a masterpiece of the genre in the business. All the developing countries should benefit from his bold theme. It should be a mandatory part of curricula across the Developing World.   

Read the book, and discover how your conventional formal education syncs up to his message. How Rich Countries Got Rich . . . and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor will blow you away.

In the land of old Pharaoh, is a man called Naguib Sawiris. He has a crazy idea--humanitarian crazy: to purchase an island for the world's refugees. 

On September 1, 2015, he tweeted: "Greece or Italy sell me an island, I'll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for them building their new country." 

Sawiris is a billionaire CEO and chairman of Orascom TMT--a telecommunications firm that operates globally.

His concern is the plight of refugees seeking shelter in Europe as "human beings." Human dignity is priority number one for him. The refugees may be in a desperate situation, but they are not "cattle."

The Egyptian entrepreneur is game to spend between $10 million and $100 million. Scratching land for a new country has been done over again, but the "main thing is investment in infrastructure," he claimed.

Ever wondered what proficiency made people like Microsoft creator Bill Gates, Apple's Steve Jobs, and Facebook's Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg famous billionaires? Then you and/or your kid needs to learn how to code.

And Python programming language could be the answer for you. Python is an open source project released to the general public free of charge. It was created by Guido Van Rossum (dubbed Benevolent Dictator for life by his colleagues) in December 1989. Version 3.4.3 of Python has just been released in February 2015.

Open source is defined as "freely available technology licensed under terms compatible with Version 1.9 (or later) of the Open Source Definition ..." This kind of projects receive their lifeblood from individual funding. 

The Python Software Foundation, a non-profit membership organization, is "devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language." So free software to help with the learning process is downloadable from www.python.org.  

GOOGLE IS AT IT AGAIN. AND THIS TIME, IT IS CAMPAIGNING TO SHOWCASE HOW AFRICANS ARE HELPING THEMSELVES TO THE UBIQUITOUS INTERNET. 

It is partnering with regional organizations that include the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and one of South Africa's most consumed sunday newspapers the City Press.

A contestant entering Africa Connected tells a story of how they are using GOOGLE products to change the immediate world around them. 

Take Mdu Ntuli for instance. Ntuli was a typical boy growing up in native South Africa. This is how the site of Africa Connected describes him: "Mdu is a young artist who grew up loving comics and trained himself using tutorials for both 2D and 3D animation on YouTube."

Ntuli's passion has made him a force to be reckoned with that, continues the site, he now manages a "YouTube channel showcasing his animated films in his local Zulu language which has received millions of views."

The cut-off date for submissions is October 31 each year.

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". This is how the biggest and best search engine in the world described its audacious goal back when it started out. 

Now that mission is about to get a virtual boost. Google has announced connecting the world using wifi hot spots, free of charge.

Making internet connect free like the air we breath is a God-like act.

Thank You Google.

A WHOLE NEW MOTHER PROJECT IS AFOOT. As a matter of fact, it's been alive and kicking for some impressive time now.

It's mission, as indicated on its website, is "to bring creative projects to life".

"We’re a for-profit company... We spend our time making Kickstarter a little bit better every day, answering questions from backers and creators, and finding new projects to share", says the kickstarter official website. "If a project is successfully funded, we apply a 5% fee to the funds collected".

"We believe that creative projects make for a better world, and we’re thrilled to help support new ones. Building a community of backers around an idea is an amazing way to make something new."

The crowdfunding platform is based in New York City’s Lower East Side, U.S.A. It launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler.

It categorizes its business in to Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film and Video, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology and Theater.

One of the successful projects to see day light via Kickstarter is Ghost, a blogging platform that's just launched.

It would appear that old ways of doing things are finding their way back into our live, through the power of the vital skills set of programming. Kickstarter would be no exception. 

Mozart, Beethoven, Whitman, Twain, and other artists funded works in similar ways — not just with help from large patrons, but by soliciting money from smaller patrons, often called subscribers. In return for their support, these subscribers might have received an early copy or special edition of the work. Kickstarter is an extension of this model, turbocharged by the web.

 

Google’s mission is "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful". In its 15th anniversary, Google is doing more for humanity than meets the eye.

 

There are about 1 billion people on the African continent. Many of whom cannot read and write. As a matter of fact, the business of the warm and sunny African day is a conflict of some sort. A few who are spared from this rut, can now do something with their corner of peace and quiet.

 

Enter GOOGLE. It is inviting the young, dynamic, and enterprising to tell the eager world of their stories of success brought about by their activities in harnessing the internet. And they get to be remunerated for doing it, too. 

 

Google, ever the dynamo that it is, is marketing its brand and business by its smart policy of social investment by multinationals.

 

You enter by filling out an online form. If the guys in Silicon Valley happen to gravitate toward your idea business-wise, you get a prize money to the tune of $25,000 to plant right back in to the bed of your entrepreneurial soil.

 

Through the Africa Connected initiative, participants should have been engaging Google products in whatever they care to be doing. And these activities should date back from before January 1, 2013. Otherwise, you cannot compete.

 

Take the winner behind the hilarious animated graphics, Mdu Ntuli, for instance. He's been making people laugh for some time now. The Google product he's using is the YouTube channel. And there are numerous individuals like him all across the continent.

 

Ntuli himself is reported to have said, “I’m in a phase where I really need to teach other people because I am getting really overwhelmed with work. Once I have taught people how to do animation I will expand the business into gaming and merchandising and all those sorts of things. I think if there was no internet I can’t even imagine what it would be like.”

 

The initiative runs until the end of next month, October 31, 2013. Find them at www.africaconnected.com to see how inspired you could get.