Archive for the 'Partners' Category

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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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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Writer Fiona Gatt met with Geekcorps Director Wayan Vota last month at two conferences, Computex and VTF 2006. After their conversation, she wrote a long, in-depth article about Geekcorps for VIA Arena, a forum associated with Geekcorps technology partner VIA Technologies.

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With its partner Population Media Center (PMC), Geekcorps Mali has made Cesiri Tono, a 144-episode radio miniseries about child trafficking and exploitation, available for download in MP3 format. The show can be found at www.radio.org.ml/cesiritono.

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USAID recently profiled the Geekcorps Mali BottleNet on www.usaid.gov

BottleNet is a do-it-yourself (DIY) antenna design using $2 in locally sourced equipment that can provide gains and directionality equivalent to low-end commercial antennas which cost about $40 each within the US. These locally produced antennas could satisfy the needs of most of the WiFi antenna market in Mali, as well as, in the longer term, the demands of an important segment of the global wireless antenna market.

Link: http://www.usaid.gov/stories/mali/pc_ml_geekcorps.html