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Qasim Virjee

Toronto, ON

Also known as: qasim

My life story is necessarily told with global narrative - I was born in Edmonton, Alberta and have since lived in Calgary, Nairobi, Montreal, New York and now call Toronto my home. Culturally, my ancestry is sourced from Gujurat India yet filtered through generations of forefathers calling East Africa their home before I was born in western Canada. At age I moved with my family from Alberta to Kenya which set interesting context for just years later when I was to log on to the Internet via copper wire in and immediately realize with wonderment the rush of transcending geo-physical boundaries whilst communicating in ways which felt innate yet modern, current and futuristic all at the same time. Since then I've been involved in a myriad of projects with a common thread of exploring how technology can facilitate multilateral communication between people and aid to develop communities with a sense of comfort, purpose and belonging. In I moved to Toronto to establish a digital services firm called Design Guru (httpwww.designguru.org), of which I am still the operating Principal, and constantly seek to explore phenomena of evolving cultural expression which has led to initiating mediaarts projects such as my Indian Electronica record labelmusic festival (httpwww.indianelectronica.com) and most recently, GetFilmi (httpwww.getfilmi.com) - a video-on-demand service for Indian Cinema. More httpqasim.ca Specialties Digital Community Development, Social Media, Open Source Publishing Platforms (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Openx...), User Interface Design,

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