Are you interested in Google and its activities in Africa? Do you dream of developing an application for consumers globally? Are you ready to compete in an exciting, new Google™ challenge?

Google looks forward to meeting you on Monday, February 25, when we'll introduce ourselves and officially launch the East Africa Google Gadget Competition. Eligible university students from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia can design and build gadgets to win prizes. Gadgets are small, simple applications that run on web pages. There are gadgets for easy email access, gadgets for football results, gadgets for fun and gadgets for frivolity. They're simple to develop, given some knowledge of HTML (and ideally XML and Javascript too). And they're easy to distribute – through iGoogle™ (Google's personalised homepage), platforms such as OpenSocial™ and third-party websites. There are tens of millions of people who use gadgets globally, generating billions of gadget pageviews per week!

The competition will run between February 25 and July 14, 2008. More details, including developer resources and how to register, can be found at: www.google.co.ke/eagadgetcompetition.

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