While research­ing some com­puter related tools for my upcom­ing blog this week­end, I came across this piece posted on YouTube by some­one going by the name “LIBTV” and it took my atten­tion off com­put­ers and put it squarely on Liberia and the progress that’s being made there.Blog­ging about Liberia isn’t some­thing I like or want to do since I haven’t been back home after almost 10 years and con­tacts with folks there has been pretty much lim­ited to fam­ily issues and not about the gen­eral view of Liberia. All I know is what you know and maybe much more than I know.

After watch­ing the entire video, I began search­ing for more videos about Liberia and its peo­ple on YouTube and other video pub­lish­ing sites. I must say, there are some good things hap­pen­ing there that can­not be ignored.

Some­thing that also caught my atten­tion was at about a minute and thirty seven sec­onds into the video when Axel Addy (sounds Ghan­ian to me) was com­ment­ing on how he was encour­aged by what the gov­ern­ment was doing to make Liberia bet­ter and com­pet­i­tive, I saw his title “Direc­tor, ALPHA Com­puter School” and I was blown away. As a geek, those are the things the get me blown away eas­ily and the rest are just noise.

I began to won­dered about the pos­si­bil­i­ties of extend­ing our Liber­ian Geek blogs to other geeks from the Mother-Land. I know there are more going on over there that we here don’t know about in IT and who’s best to tell us but some­one who can speak “Geek”. Link­ing with geeks from back home is a great idea to help us bet­ter under­stand about the lim­its and pos­si­bil­i­ties of being a geek in Liberia.

Hope­fully after read­ing this blog you will con­tact your friends and fam­i­lies who are geeks to join our work here by con­tribut­ing and shar­ing their con­tents and expe­ri­ences about being a geek in Liberia.