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A Question for Bill Gates

I am at the MVP Summit in Washington and this morning was a real thrill - Bill Gates delivered the keynote address.  He really is a most impressive man, and when Richard Kaplan (Vice President, Customer Service, Partners and Automation) opened the floor for questions I hesitated for a minute before taking my place in line at microphone number 3.  Had I not hesitated I would not have been left as the second person in line when Mr. Kaplan announced that Mr. Gates would field one more question only.  I was upset because I had spent 45 minutes writing and re-writing my question until it was just as I wanted it.  The following is the text of my question as it appears on my note paper:

Je veux vous remercier pour avoir changé ma vie et la monde qu'on habitent.  My countryman Tony (Toewes) called himself a dinosaur for having started in 1989.  I started in 1979, and really do not remember a life without computers.

My name is Mitch Garvis; I am a usergroup leader and trainer from Montreal Quebec in the great nation of Canada.  I am fortunate to live in one of the great 'have' countries.  For those of us who have seen the have not countries we know the gap is enormous.  Mr. Gates, you and Melinda are doing the work of giants in innoculating and vaccinating that part of the world.

In order to actually close the gap and make a truly global economy those countries will need to be educated not only in agriculture but in technology as well.  I left my Thirty Billion Dollars in my other pants so how can someone like myself as a Microsoft Certified Trainer help to bring that technological training to the parts of the world that will need it?

I will gladly welcome answers to this question, and have taken steps to ensure that the text of this question get to Mr. Gates, and I eagerly anticipate his answer.

 

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