Hello everyone
I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be
our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory
Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou.
Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in
the south west of the country and the capital of Ivorian cocoa, Cyriac
Gbogou runs for years a part of the African continent with his parents
as a student-resident respectively in Senegal, Togo, Mali and
Congo-Brazzaville. He finally returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and
decided to pursue graduate studies in computer science. He holds an
engineering degree in Computer Science.
He gets married in August 2009. In 2010, he discovers the world of Web
2.0. That same year, Cyriac chooses to not follow his employer IBM which
wanted to relocate its activities in Morocco because of the very
sensitive period in Cote d’Ivoire. Loving risk and adventure, he stays
to serve his country as volunteer in Akendewa (now former Secretary
General). His passion for social networks has grown during the
post-electoral crisis of 2011 working with other actors in the Ivorian
web projects such as Civsocial #, # Wonzomai who have saved lives with
the Internet use [1]. Cyriac is the Chairman of the Association des
Blogueurs de Côte d'Ivoire (A.B.C.I)
Since September 2012, Cyriac Gbogou is an independent consultant, a job
he does with passion, as an advisor, speaker and trainer. He was named
by his peers "Village Chief" of the Ivorian web community.
You can also follow him on his blog where he speaks freely on topics:
www.cyriacgbogou.ci
Whilst Cyriac is not (yet) a wikipedian, he is quite knowledgeable with
open source and related projects : he was involved in OSM Ivory Coast
mapping and coordinating mapping party or was involved in the jerry
project (
http://youandjerrycan.org) including in the set up of Afripedia
on a jerry server.
More info about Kumusha here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News
Cyriac will have about two weeks to gain some familiarity with Wikimedia
projects before heading to Cap Town for a month, to receive some
training and start planning his activity in Ivory Coast.
It would be great if some of you could welcome him on his (still red)
talk page :)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Cyriac_Gbogou
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