Geekcorps featured in Time Magazine
6th September 2007
In A Global Coalition of Good, by Jeffery Sachs, Geekcorps was featured as “an inspiring and ingenious effort by Americans to make connections, share some know-how and improve the world”:
Geekcorps is, well, just what it says. Its Internet-age volunteers bridge the digital divide one network at a time in the villages of the low-income world. They train people in information and communications technologies and advise them on starting businesses using these new skills. Working in Timbuktu and beyond, Geekcorps relies on its “Desert PC,” specially designed for the low electricity access and high temperatures and dust of the Sahara.
If you too are inspired by income-generating Desert PC’s or even the ingenious CanTV, then do the right thing, register with Geekcorps now!
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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).