i should note that yahoo has been extremely supportive of a few of the ictd projects at uw. i encourage you to submit proposals with "socially conscious" angles! On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 18:58, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@gmail.com> wrote:
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