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Geekcorps: A Peace Corps for techies

news.com.com — Geekcorp is "a U.S.-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to cultivating high-tech skills and businesses in the world's emerging nations." They're recruiting geeks to volunteer their time to setup infrastructure in the Third World. Pretty cool.

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  • GeekyGirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They are doing some pretty interesting things, like email over the radio in countries like Mali where the telecom infrastructure barely functions and most of the population is illiterate.

    "If a villager wants to get a note to a friend in another part of the country, he or she comes to the radio station and dictates an e-mail to the DJ, who then sends the message off to another station closer to the recipient's location. The DJ who receives the e-mail then issues a broadcast: Muhammad Kanoute, come to the station and I will read your e-mail message to you" (quote from the news.com article).

    Cool stuff!
  • keane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i submitted http://digg.com/hardware/Geekcorps_Bottlenet_brings_$1_wireless_internet_antennas_to_rural_Africa
    (related, not dupe at all)

    but yeah, they definitely deserve to be featured.

    +DIGG
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