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| DATE | 2005-08-03 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [Fwd: [501techclub-ny] Paid Volunteer Opportunities with Geekcorps]
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From: WVota-at-iesc.org
To: 501techclub-ny-at-list.nten.org
Subject: [501techclub-ny] Paid Volunteer Opportunities with Geekcorps
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:06:56 -0400
In bringing the World Wide Web to the whole wide world, Geekcorps http://www.geekcorps.org, a volunteer-based international nonprofit development organization, is
looking for volunteers to travel to Africa for several challenging IT
programs that are changing the role of information and communication
technologies in the developing world.
Skilled ICT experts willing to work with people and innovate with minimal
technical equipment in a developing country are needed immediately
(Summer-Fall 2005) and would stay in Africa about four months. More
experts will be needed in Winter 2005-06 to continue the experience.
Geekcorps can offer great benefits besides that warm & fuzzy feeling from
doing good. International airfare, expat-level lodging, decent living
stipend, and dedicated in-country staff are provided. Daily challenges and
rewards are guaranteed.
- Linux OS Developers
If you have decent French and at least 3-5 years of professional
experience with advanced Linux, maybe even radio broadcasting and/or WiFi
experience, you could be a Geekcorps volunteer in the Mali Connectivity
Project http://mali.geekcorps.org
Geekcorps is teaching Malian radio stations and community centers how to
work with Linux-based systems, connect the systems by WiFi over several
kilometers, and maintain both the systems and connections with great
ingenuity and minimal expense.
- Small Business Consultants & Open Source Software Developers
If you have decent French and at least 3-5 years of professional
experience in ICT consulting with either tourism or light industry with a
small and medium sized business focus OR you are an experienced Open
Source Software developer, you could be a Geekcorps volunteer with the
Senegal Digital Freedom Initiative http://www.dfi.sn
Geekcorps is paring with local business to teach them how to effectively
use multiple ICT disciplines and Open Source Software to improve their
internal processes, external communications, and access to financing and
credit, building replicatable models to expand the impact nationwide.
- Communications Designers & Database Developers
If you have at least 3-5 years of professional experience with either user
interface and relational database design experience, especially
distributed implementation and administration OR rural communication
installation, management, and integration experience, and maybe French
and/or West Africa experience you could be a Geek volunteer with the Ghana
Marketplace Portal Project http://www.mistowa.org/
Geekcorps is teaming up with other organizations to connect existing and
new market information system databases into an open-source database that
links the public to the database and producer & trader organizations to
improve the flow and analysis of market and trade information throughout
West Africa.
- Open Source Software Developers & Web Designers
If you have at least 3-5 years of professional experience in developing
and designing websites with modern website back-end technologies OR you
are an experienced Open Source Software developer, you could be a
Geekcorps volunteer with our newest program.
Not even named yet, this new program will set up an ICT training center in
Rwanda to develop Free and Open Source Software, including localized
Linux, to improve the ICT sector and its ability to support other Rwandan
industries.
Interested? Geekcorps http://www.geekcorps.org
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Wayan Vota
Program Manager
Geekcorps Division
http://www.geekcorps.org
International Executive Service Corps (IESC)
901 15th Street NW, Suite 1010
Washington DC, 20005
202.326.0280 - http://www.iesc.org
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