[UgaBYTES] Ben Waumans the founder of GDCO passed away in Eindhoven - Netherlands

[Ndaula Sulah]

Dear Ahmed,

It is a great loss indeed... Our condolences to GDCO, ICT4RD and the great
people of Eindhoven | Sulah





On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM, ahmed digital <ahmed22digital at gmail.com>wrote:

> *Dear friends*
>
> * *
>
> * It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Mr. Ben Waumans
> the
> great man of Eindhoven and the founder of GDCO   was passed away last
> Wednesday 11th November  (67 years)… I call him last week inquiring about
> his health but the phone was answered by his son … on behave of GDCO and
> its
> partners  specially Gedaref university,,, and on behave of Gedaref state
> community and on behave of all the disabled  I would like to show our deep
> condolences to his family and to his colleagues in the Digital City of
> Eindhoven also to the great people of Eindhoven .. Specially Dr. Agnes  and
> Gedaref volunteers in Eindhoven … my condolences to Gedaref state community
> who benefit from the partnership between GDCO and DSE ,,, also to the
> disabled all over Sudan who learn how to communicate with their families
> through the internet our condolences to the Telecentre movement  for
> missing
> a great hero who help Sudan to join this movement .        *
>
> *Ben Waumans was born in 1942 in Koewacht, Netherlands where he grew up. He
> attended university in Eindhoven. After university Ben joined Philips
> Electronics in various functions: researcher, development engineer, plant
> manager and board member at Philips research. After his retirement Ben
> worked as independent advisor for organizations as Eindhoven University and
> Medea. Besides his advisor activities Ben worked in various projects:
> chairman of Digital City Eindhoven, Chairman of Terre de Hommes Helmond,
> memberof the advisory board of the ANWB and chairman of the Belgian Dutch
> Federation. Ben passed away in 2009 at the age of 67.*
>
>
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> http://www.gedaref.com/
> http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
> http://www.dse.nl/~gedaref/archief.htm<http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm>
> http://knowledgenets.net/gedaref/
>
> GDCO is a big Telecentre, it is NGO and non profitable organization,,, GDCO
> is the founder of the first national Telecentre academy in Africa and the
> middle east and 13th in  the world (Sudan national Telecentre academy
> SuNTA). GDCO is the winner of information for development award i4d e-India
> 2007,,, also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at the
> grassroots Telecentre,,,, It is the winner of i4d 2009 awards for civil
> societies initiatives for development,,,, GDCO has 4 internet websites in
> Arabic,,, Dutch, English and the fourth is in UN-ESCWA,,, also it Has more
> than 150 links and blogs and 500 pictures,,, GDCO has strong partnership
> with Digital City of Eindhoven,,,  DSE donated 750 computers and
> established
> 10 development e-projects.
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