Meet a Sandbox Member: Humphry Akiseh Nnoke Ngite
December 16th, 2009 by Sara Usinger
Humphry is originally from Cameroon but right now living in Kristianstad/Sweden. He is a computer science student, activist in the non-profit sector and prospective entrepreneur. He believes that given the appropriate tools in life each individual can maximize his/her full potential. Hence he is determined to make use of his full potential and see others achieve the same. We interviewed him by email to learn more about his latest projects.
Tell us the story of your latest project / occupation:
It all started out of the passion of us two young minds (Humphry and Samuel) back in 2006 that we thought of a way to make impact in our society. Having brainstormed on some of the things needed by our society for economic improvement, this led us to set the ground work for the formation of our organization “City Of Light” Foundation which embodies the amelioration of IT in Cameroon, ensure food security by investing and improving in the use of modern agricultural techniques, improve health situation in Cameroon as well as improve the educational sector and social status of orphans. In December of 2006 our application which had been submitted was approved giving us the go ahead to operate.
What are you doing and how did you get there?
Given the fact that the organization involves different areas in its mission, we are determined to first take one thing at a time and top of our priority is working on setting up an IT training centre and to help schools to implement a virtual desk top system in schools to help students access their information on any desktop provided they are connected to the internet. What motivated this initiative is through the help of Paul Gleger a fellow Sandboxer who suggested G.ho.st Inc could be of help to us.
Tell us about the biggest successes and failures in your life. What worked, what didn’t, and what did you learn?
Initially failure in management was our point of failure and this made us not to be a able to comply with the demands of the opportunity given to us by Digital Links for the supply of computers in 2008 and this was because we were zealous to operate everything at a go. However we have learnt that success is in stages hence we have decided to prioritize our objectives and achieve one thing at a time. As successes I will say us being registered was an initial point of success and followed by it has been that we have been able initiate dialogue with some school principals on the use of the G.ho.st Inc. virtual desk top in education for students.
What do you want to achieve in the next week, the next year, the next 10 years?
As objective for the next two weeks and the next year I hope that the initiative of implementing the facilities offered by G.ho.st Inc be implemented in the education sector. In the next ten years and beyond I expect we must have been able to build credible and sustainable partnerships with likeminds over the world , make a nationwide impact in regards to our missions (i.e. provide quality IT training, education, health, improve social standards for the underprivileged) and be and NGO of model where we can be able to be self sustaining and not relying solely on donor organizations.
What was your most inspring moment during the last two weeks?
The most inspiring moments I have got recently was when I took time off listening to TED Talks from Andrew Mwenda and Chimamanda Adichie which I am still enjoying so much.
