Friday Martin on Digitizing Communities
” Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray” – Rumi. Friday Martin aka Bwana Marshal is an accountant by profession and a farmer by default. Passionately he is a digital enthusiast, social media influencer and a philanthropist. This is not the most interesting part about Martin though. Martin is not just a digital enthusiast but an icon in creating digital solutions for communities. Conventionally a community is a gathering of people (most times sharing same language, values and beliefs), but in this digital era it is so easy to bring unlike-minded people from diverse corners of the world to have a platform that liken their minds and cause. Digital communities enable humanity from diverse locations to have a chance to improve their access to information, enhance their personal and professional growth and also help in creating networks of impact from wherever they are. Digital communities share a diversity of industry/society social, political and economic opinions, ideas, and knowledge that one would have never encountered in the analogue communities. We cannot talk about all this without having Martin as the feature face of such trends that are transforming