Archive for May 29th, 2007

Geekcorps Advises the AVOIR Network

29th May 2007

IESC Geekcorps Director Wayan Vota is participating in an AVOIR strategy meeting in Nairobi Kenya this week. He is following up on previous Geekcorps volunteer engagements with the African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR).

Ryan Whitney, Adrian “Open Source Guy” Woodhead, and Jessie Bhangoo offered technical assistance in software development, deployment, and support to the Free Software Innovation Unit of the University of Western Cape.
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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).

The Cybertigi proved to be a very successful experiment, becoming popular with first time Internet users who found Papou’s mini-cyber both affordable and accessible. Unfortunately, after several months of Cybertigi operation the CLIC lost its Internet connection and Papou returned his equipment back to the CLIC.

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