Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Ivory Coast

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 Florence/Anthere _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>