I was reading this article
<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-google-code-jam-2009-champion-is.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-google-code-jam-2009-champion-is.html</a>
and I found the following bit very disturbing<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Last week, we hosted the the final round of <a href="http://code.google.com/codejam/">Google Code Jam 2009</a>, the sixth iteration of our annual global programming competition. From almost 23,000 registrants in the beginning, we <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-code-jam-returns.html">winnowed down the contestants</a>
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 <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine">Google App Engine</a> 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.<br>
</blockquote>
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Notice Africa is not mentioned there. Why is this the case? Why aren&#39;t our students participating in such initiatives?