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

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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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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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 »

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.

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