Today we spent most of our time in office, preparing for our consulting projects. My consulting project is with a non profit called Camfed that works with reducing poverty by education women & children. This project involved creation of computer & internet training content for their staff in order for them to take IT trainings for students in their ICT centers up north of Ghana. Olivia and I discussed our plan and then went about finishing up pending work.
In the afternoon, it was time to go out do the marketing challenge called 'Discover Accra' organized by the Google Ghana office. That was fun! We were given a few tasks to complete within the next 2 hours - the challenge being to get as many businesses along Oxford street on Google Places as possible. We were all dropped off on Oxford street and given exactly 90 minutes to complete are challenge. It was fun to go trotting into random stores asking if they'd like their shop to be on Google maps. We managed get about 9 people to sign up on Google Places or had their businesses marked using Map Maker. Learning: Now I know how to use these products - Yay! :)
It was an interesting experience, especially since I got to walk on my own along the street and talk to the locals. We all got back home quite early (~6:00pm) after the challenge and crashed as tomorrow was going to be a long day.
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