[kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table

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I was reading this article
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-google-code-jam-2009-champion-is.htmland
I found the following bit very disturbing

Last week, we hosted the the final round of Google Code Jam
2009<http://code.google.com/codejam/>,
> the sixth iteration of our annual global programming competition. From
> almost 23,000 registrants in the beginning, we winnowed down the
> contestants<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-code-jam-returns.html>to the fastest and most fervent coders. On Friday, we brought the top 23
> competitors to our Mountain View headquarters for four concentrated hours of
> thinking, testing and trouble-shooting. The competition platform, built as a
> 20% project by a group of Google engineers, was powered by Google App
> Engine <http://code.google.com/appengine> and allowed the contestants to
> use the programming language of their choice. These diverse finalists
> represented 15 different countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
>

Notice Africa is not mentioned there. Why is this the case? Why aren't our
students participating in such initiatives?
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