BaMenda.org
Title
BAMENDA.ORG
Description
By 1999 Roland had turned two simple assets—an e-mail address and a long-distance dial-up Internet connection—into a business: GAMA InfoTech, based in the city of Bamenda, Cameroon.
Most people in Bamenda hadn’t heard of the Internet yet, but Roland was already leveraging it, and making a living serving the small population of Bamenda who needed to send and receive e-mail.
It wasn’t even a cybercafé. Customers would use Roland’s e-mail address as their own, and instruct their correspondents to put the recipient’s name in the subject line. All incoming messages were printed out for customers. There were only one or two computers. All outgoing messages were transcribed by, or dictated to Roland or one of his employees.
Contact
- Ted Johnson
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- Takoma Park MD
- US 20912
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- +1.3018912094
