Archive for the 'People' Category

First volunteer to Mali!

Ian Howard, the first volunteer assigned to Geekcorps’ community radio / WiFi project in Mali, West Africa, will be arriving within the week in Bamako. Ian’s employer, the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), published an article in the University Bulletin about Ian and his exciting project.
Additionally, the Record, another Canadian newspaper, posted the following article:

The Record article: http://dingo.uwaterloo.ca/~ihoward/geekcorps/docs/therecord_article.html
The Bulletin article: http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2004/jan/09fr.html

Andrew McLaughlin can do no wrong. Friend/advisor/volunteer for Geekorps, he’s also Big Geek Ethan’s fellow fellow (?) at Harvard’s Berkman Center and, among other titles, a founding member of ICANN.

While in Mongolia as a Geekcorps rep, Andrew is not only advising the government and IT sector on ways to improve their communal environment, but he’s also writing a daily journal for Slate. Read it and enjoy a new perspective for the short while he’s in UB…

G2 Volunteer Tomas Krag is featured in a piece in The Feature — “It’s All About the Global Internet” — along with his organization wire.less.dk, Télécoms sans Frontières, and Geekcorps. Writer Howard Rheingold does a fine job of articulating everyone’s Digital Divide efforts; why a push for telecommunications (both wired and wireless) worldwide can be a form of humanitarian aid.

(You may need to register with The Feature in order to find this in their article history, but it’s free and worth it!)

Link: http://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp

MIT’s Technology Review journal has awarded our very own Executive Director Ethan Zuckerman highest accolades for “Technology in the Service of Humanity.” We at Geekcorps congratulate the other honorees of the TR100, the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators in technology and business.

Congrats, Ethan!

Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/tr100/press.asp#1may24

Technology Review, an MIT publication, has announced the World’s Top 100 Innovators under 35 — and our very own Executive Director Ethan Zuckerman has made the cut! We wish him the best of luck at the Thursday, May 23 Symposium and Awards Ceremony in Cambridge, Massachussetts!

Link: http://www.techreview.com/tr100/press.asp#may15

Canadian Business Magazine sent a reporter and a photographer to Accra to profile G4 geeks Ross Barney and Jonathan Wong, resulting in a lengthy piece. Search for the print edition if it’s the photos you’re looking for.

Link: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/xta-asp/storyview.asp?viewtype=browse&tpl=related_frame&edate=2002/04/29&sid=45560&searchfield=categories&searchvalue=Education&gsection=&nav=rel&vpath=

G3 Networking guru Dan DiNicolo can add “published journalist” to his roster of accomplishments with this missive on wireless technologies in Africa, a companion piece to the “Heart of Geekness” feature.

Link: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/xta-asp/storyview.asp?viewtype=browse&tpl=related_frame&edate=2002/04/29&sid=45562&searchfield=categories&searchvalue=Education&gsection=&nav=rel&vpath=

The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest daily, ran a brief (but great!) piece on G4 Geeks Ross Barney and Jonathan Wong in their globetechnology.com section in late February. Check out why their experiences are inspiring Canadians from coast to coast.

Link: http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/D/20020220/gtgeek?tf=tgam%252Frealtime%252Ffullstory_Tech.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=gtgeek&date=20020220&archive=RTGAM&site=Technology

CareerBuilder ran a piece on Geekcorps in February in their “Getting Ahead” section, focusing on G3 Geek Dan DiNicolo.

Link: http://www.careerbuilder.com/subcat/cop/tcop110113.html

New G4 Geek Jonathan Wong is featured in a January 17, 2002 piece on CanadaComputes.com. Pretty media savvy, eh?

Link: http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7925,00.html?tag=81&sb=121