Google Baraza

"I am a member of the Google Baraza team. One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the information is not yet available online. In order to help bring more local content online, Google engineers have created Baraza to allow people in countries across Africa to ask questions and post answers to questions from others.

Here are some quick tasks to try out

- Answer a question on your favorite topic - Find a question by browsing labels (e.g.,"Programming & Design") or Search (e.g., "Economics")

- Ask a question that you have been wondering about [...]" http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=3084c339e2379cf8

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by codfrantic » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

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"One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the information is not yet available online. In order to help bring more local content online, Google engineers have created Baraza to allow people in countries across Africa to ask questions and post answers to questions from others."

http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=3084c339e2379cf8

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by ekianjo » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

Where are the points coming from ? I seem to have 24 points while I never used this service. How about you ?

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by adrianb » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 9:14 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #7

Where are the points coming from ? I seem to have 24 points while I never used this service. How about you ?

The 24 points seem to be the "initial sign-up bonus" and a "daily login bonus". I got my initial bonus in 2011 it seems, so this must be an older Google service that was just renamed and re-launched.

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by r0h1n » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 9:16 AM UTC

diggan wrote: post #5

"What is Google Baraza?" "I am a member of the Google Baraza team. One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the informat…

So, minus all the lofty goals, this is Google Answers for Africa.

I'd be interested to know what Q&A services Africans already use.

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by crb » Tue, Oct 01, 2013, 9:17 AM UTC

Note: this URL will be 404 if you're using an "https everywhere" extension. Revert to http:// URLs and it will work.