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.