In the Company of Volunteers

Buhugu IT is more an idea than a company.

It came about because we were pondering the following questions:

1. How to do the Buhugu Initiative with sustainability built in to it from the beginning?
2. How do we use our skills to generate funding for our projects?
3. How do we create jobs for young people in Buhugu?

Technology happens to be something we know something about. So, it is not a surprise that we got pulled in this direction.

But the idea as it stands now is interesting, exciting and new - for us.

Is it possible to create a company that delivers IT services and products and is in part run by volunteers from around the world and in part by young entrepreneurs from Buhugu?

We take inspiration from the open source development process, of course. But can we translate a distributed network of IT professionals and enthusiasts (albeit small) into real projects, real jobs and real transfer of skills in Buhugu?

As a step in exploring this, last weekend five of us from Chennai, Gainesville and Ann Arbor met online, talked, shared ideas, asked questions and resolved to try it out.