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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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No it’s not an earthquake, Geekcorps Director Wayan Vota is trapped amongst a multitude of crates and boxes because Geekcorps has moved! Please note our new address, just blocks away from our previous location:

IESC Geekcorps
1900 M Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036

Our email and phone number have remained the same: geekcorps AT iesc DOT org | 202.326.0280

Full-Time Position, 40 hours/week
Location: Bamako, Mali
The position will remain open until filled.
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Geekcorps volunteer Adrian Woodhead has become the “Open Source Guy” on iCommons.org. He, along with an Open Source colleague, will provide regular commentary on all things Open Source, beginning with this month’s posting entitled “Why did you do it? Why did you give that thing away?” in which he and his partner in crime list the reasons why people contribute to open source software projects.
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Geekcorps Director Wayan Vota will be one of three speakers featured at the ICT@Grassroots Panel today at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington D.C.
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In celebration of the 78th Anniversary of World Amateur Radio Day, we’d like to remind radio techies everywhere of a great way to get involved in the world around us: Geekcorps!

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moulin, the Geekcorps answer to distributing the Wikipedia offline, is a nominee in TechSoup’s NetSquared Project Innovation Fund Award, which seeks twenty innovative projects that utilize social web technology to create societal impact. The top twenty vote getters will receive an all-expense paid trip to the NetSquared Conference in San Jose, CA May 29-30, 2007, and have a chance to win cash and other resources from the NetSquared Innovation Fund.

Voting will be held April 9-16.

Vote for the moulin Wiki project now at NetSquared!

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Do you live in Egypt or have an Egyptian background? Are a techie? If so, then we want you! Geekcorps is working to increase its presence in Egypt and we need technical experts of all kinds including system administrators, education technologists, wifi experts, end user trainers, software developers, IT strategists, and more.

Register with Geekcorps Today!

IESC Geekcorps’ program in Mali has been highlighted in a Volunteers for Prosperity (VfP) video, see it below! The video features Geekcorps Country Director Matt Berg who discusses a variety of the innovative Geekcorps technologies and initiatives that have been implemented in Mali such as the Desert PC and Cybertigi.

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This morning, Wayan Vota, Director of Geekcorps, spoke at the Software Engineering Process Group annual meeting on the other CMMI for Development - Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) for International Development.

In the IESC Geekcorps program, Accessing International Markets thru Information Technology (AIM-IT), CMMI is being applied as a differentiator, an international seal of operational process quality for Lebanese IT companies, increasing the ability of the IT industry to be a driver of the Lebanese economy.
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