Geekcorps in CNN’s Business 2.0 Magazine
30 March 2006 in Press by Wayan Vota
Geekcorps was featured in the March 2006 issue of CNN’s Business 2.0 magazine, in the What Works department, filed under “Do-Gooding.” The article focuses on the Geekcorps Mali program and quotes Director Wayan Vota and Mali Program Coordinator Matt Berg.
Matt Berg spent his first few postcollege years like any other geek: coding software under the glow of fluorescent lights. But today the 28-year-old rigs makeshift radio towers near the sands of Tombouctou. As a volunteer for U.S.-based Geekcorps, he’s part of an IT-savvy army that’s bringing technology infrastructure to developing nations around the world. “I have always been interested in how technology can make people’s lives better,” he says.
A Peace Corps for Generation Net, Business 2.0
Papou Coulibaly is young boutique owner in Ouélessébougou. Previously, Geekcorps partnered with Papou to create a Cybertigi - an Internet access point for the local community via a wireless link to a Community Information & Learning Center (CLIC).