AIM-IT

IESC Geekcorps volunteer expert Steve Porter was featured on SHAW TV for his assignment with the AIM-IT program in Beirut, Lebanon.

During two separate workshops he delivered interactive hands-on training and simulation labs on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Training to participants from Lebanese ICT companies.

Watch this SHAW TV interview about Steve’s impression of his “experience of a lietime”:

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The AIM-IT program, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the International Executive Service Corps (IESC), in collaboration with Lebanon’s Ministry of Tourism and Federation of Touristic Syndicates, is launching the first PDA Navigation Guide to tourism and eco-tourism sites in Lebanon, on July 10 at the Ministry of Tourism

The PDA Navigation Guide fully utilizes the power of ICT to increase the competitiveness of rural tourism by encouraging tourists discover landmarks and natural beauty hidden in rural and remote areas of Lebanon. The PDA Guide to tourism provides hand held digitized maps of Lebanon with directions and guidance to over 11,000 Points of Interests across Lebanon.

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During two separate workshops in Beirut, Lebanon, IESC Geekcorps international volunteer expert Steve Porter delivered interactive hands-on training and simulation labs on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Training, the latest Microsoft software project management tool, to participants from Lebanese ICT companies

Mr. Porter’s trainings are part of the capacity building activities within IESC’s Accessing International Markets thru Information Technology (AIM-IT) program. AIM-IT developed the Microsoft Visual Studio training in collaboration with Microsoft’s Developer Network and Microsoft Lebanon to:

• provide the latest software project management methodology,
• showcase practical know-how on using software management tools

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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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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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