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Our very own Geekcorps Director Wayan Vota will be a keynote speaker at the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) 2007 Conference hosted by Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute on March 26-29.
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Volunteers for Prosperity (VfP) was established as a result of a Presidential Executive Order to encourage international voluntary service by highly skilled Americans to promote health and prosperity worldwide. This agenda is represented by a number of Presidential initiatives including the Digital Freedom Initiative. IESC Geekcorps is a VfP partner.
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The Smart Technology for a Smarter Business Program is a highly practical training curriculum that enables small business owners and managers to build smarter businesses with technology. Unlike traditional training experiences that focus on either technology or business, the program targets the integration of both. Multi-faceted, innovative, and experiential, the program addresses 19 different business topics, in 5 different languages, and includes case scenarios, virtual entrepreneurs, technology demos and activities, facilitated discussions, and computer-based simulations. It introduces up-to-date technologies in the marketplace that are accessible worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, announced its continued cooperation with Geekcorps to empower people living in remote desert communities in Mali through the deployment of innovative, adaptable, and sustainable information and communication technology (ICT).
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IESC Geekcorps’ Lebanese ICT Academy program, called PICTA, is a cooperative effort between the Professional Computer Association of Lebanon (PCA), IESC Geekcorps, IJMA3, Mercy Corps, Audi Bank, Microsoft, Amcham, Intel, and now Cisco. Cisco recently awarded IESC Geekcorps with an in-kind donation of much needed equipment required to establish Internet connectivity for the PICTA Centers.
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In November 2006, IESC’s Access to International Markets through Information Technology (AIM-IT) program sponsored seventeen Lebanese ICT companies in exhibiting and participating in the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX). The 26th edition of GITEX, one of the largest ICT exhibitions in the world, was held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

There have already been a number of client success stories as a result of the quality of technical assistance provided by AIM-IT, a USAID funded program, during the GITEX’06 exhibition. Ethos Knowledge Management Solutions is one such example.
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Microsoft and IESC Geekcorps have teamed up to send Microsoft developer experts to participate as volunteers in the Access to International Markets Through Information Technology (AIM-IT) project in Lebanon.
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Moussa Keita, a Malian and 2004 Geekcorps volunteer, has been awarded a highly coveted fellowship to attend the TEDGlobal Conference in Arusha, Tanzania in June. The annual conference is an invite-only event with attendees who are luminaries from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design.
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After months of hard work, Geekcorps Mali is extremely proud to announce the release moulin - the offline Wikipedia!

moulin, French for windmill, is Geekcorps’ attempt to improve the access to basic information and reference material in developing countries by making it possible to access Wikipedia, the world’s largest, free encyclopedia, offline.
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Two Geekcorps volunteers have been hard at work in Cape Town, participating in the Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI) in South Africa, with a third Geekcorps volunteer arriving in early February. DFI is a new form of public-private partnership to promote the economic growth of small businesses and entrepreneurs in the developing world through ICT. Geekcorps’ participation in the program is funded by USAID.

One of the Geekcorps volunteers, Adrian Woodhead, has placed a posting on the iCommons website with an update on recent South African Geek activities. Check it out at:
http://icommons.org/2007/01/29/the-geeks-have-landed-in-the-cape/