Archive for June 10th, 2003

Slate’s “Getting Wired in Mongolia”

10th June 2003

Andrew McLaughlin can do no wrong. Friend/advisor/volunteer for Geekorps, he’s also Big Geek Ethan’s fellow fellow (?) at Harvard’s Berkman Center and, among other titles, a founding member of ICANN.

While in Mongolia as a Geekcorps rep, Andrew is not only advising the government and IT sector on ways to improve their communal environment, but he’s also writing a daily journal for Slate. Read it and enjoy a new perspective for the short while he’s in UB…

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