I was reading this article http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-google-code-jam-2009-champion-is.... I found the following bit very disturbing Last week, we hosted the the final round of Google Code Jam 2009<http://code.google.com/codejam/>,
the sixth iteration of our annual global programming competition. From almost 23,000 registrants in the beginning, we winnowed down the contestants<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-code-jam-returns.html>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 Google App Engine <http://code.google.com/appengine> 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.
Notice Africa is not mentioned there. Why is this the case? Why aren't our students participating in such initiatives?