On Wednesday 10th June 2009 we launched the Conquering the Web Competition. It offers a detailed e-commerce website, google adwords paid for plus management, international telephony and legal services which in total comes to a value of €15,000.
Why did we do this? Both myself and my business partner(and other type..) are foreigners to the region where we set up our business a few years ago. We were both re-building our lives after respective marriage break ups, and without anything but one friend in the area we decided to move to Andalucia. Since then we have had support from the local government here, given training courses and in general worked hard, have been lucky but without help our lives wouldn't be as they are today. I am Irish and he is Portuguese. We wanted to have chance to give something back.
On and off for a few months we brainstormed how this idea could work and when we had developed it we contacted some of the people we know here. From there we have had the launch press conference on Wednesday last which went very well, and there are still a couple more interviews coming up. The funny thing is that we did not expect this type of interest.
What we want is for people to have more hope, feel more positive and learn that there are possibilities. Andalucia is a region which is not well developed regarding internet.
There is a feel good factor about doing something that has a positive effect on others. Maybe this stretches back to when we were part of tribes and we are helping our fellow tribes people. We can have a lot of ideas about the psychology of giving, but I reckon these days its almost an emergency situation because so many peoples' lives have been turned upside down.
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