Dear MPI Team,
Rasello is not focused on mass market businesses, we identify key
businesses that have many clients (or people they constantly communicate
to) and help them manage their client databases on a cloud to mainly
communicate with them via SMS.We look for organizations such as:

1. *Rasello for NGOs* who have many people they communicate to as an
initiative, good examples are like women initiatives where women can get
SMS updates on their mobile from the NGO using Rasello.
2. *Rasello for Schools* where they can use the system to send updates to
parents or children about urgent updates or general information as a whole
using the system. School can group their children/parents and send targeted
relevant communication.
3. *Rasello for Insurance *companys that need to keep the members they are
insuring up-to-date about policies, premiums and other information.
Insurance company's can group their members and send targeted relevant
communication.
4. *Rasello for Hotels* where they can group their consumers based on
interest (food, beverages, live bands, amenities, etc) and send SMS updates
to increase sales and awareness.
5. *Rasello for Tour operators* where they can group their consumers based
on location interest, transportation interest (car rental deals) and
lifestyle interest (luxury safari deals, budget safari deals, etc) to send
SMS updates to relevant groups to increase sales.
6. *Rasello for Recruitment *companys where they can group their job
seekers by position (finance, admin, sales, etc) and when jobs are
available they send out an SMS broadcast to candidates to schedule
interviews as apposed to going through files and CVs and calling each
member individually.

The whole objective is to make businesses operate more efficiently, manage
members better and understand them more through our consumer group trends.
At the end businesses can communicate smarter, retain and re-engange
consumers to establish longer customer lifetime cycles.

Can you identify such businesses where you are, if so kindly avail to us
their names so we can start communicating commission schemes.

Hope to co-operate with you soon.

Warm Regards,

JORDAN NYEMBE
BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Dear MPI Team,
Living the Enhanced Life
Re your special report "Visions of Tomorrow" [Oct. 25]: No single nation is self-sufficient in today's global society; we need one another's food, inventions, technology, banking, credit, tourism, music and fashion. International exchange students help us participate more fully in a world that is becoming increasingly linked by communication, transportation and trade. We can no longer be blinded by prejudice and narrow-mindedness. We can change the world by overcoming the barriers among people. Then we can leave the 21st century knowing that we have broken the pattern of divisiveness.
Jordan Nyembe
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I must be extremely naive... in FOSS communities, I tend to take people at their word and expect that they are operating under the best interests of their communities. And I had hoped that people would think the same.

Instead, I get tired of people pointing fingers at others with the implied accusation that they are shills for other entities. I, myself, have, at times, been called a shill for Oracle (when they donated Open Office to the ASF), MS (when they became a sponsor), Red Hat (very recently) and others... Or maybe not exactly a "shill" but for sure someone who could be putting those entities' considerations before that of FOSS, a claim so ludicrous as to be almost irrational. How can anyone who claims to really understand and appreciate FOSS be so distrustful of trust?

I don't know whether to ignore those people, avoid those people, or pity those people.