We read about other people going off to work for charity in poorer countries but geeks have by and large been overlooked due to most posts requiring people skills ie actually requiring you to be friendly to people rather than snotty and strange stuff like that. Now geeks can get in on the act with techy placements to places like Mali, Ghana, Senegal, and Kenya. You can now tell a whole village "It works fine on mine. Sorry.".
via boingboing
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I could really do with a techy here.
My laptops buggered. Local guy turns up - switches it on and off for an hour then informs me: "It's broken".
Get yerselves signed up to VSO. www.vso.org.uk
I reckon there's plenty of jobs for techy types around the world.
I'm a software geek rather than hardware. And software geeks can write software anywhere in the world for anywhere else in the world without leaving home.
The likes of VSO should have volunteer from home placements.
It's not about being worthy. I don't know anyone here whose here because they want to save the world.
But it does make it easier to get up in the morning when you know that you're not just making some arsehole rich.
But it's just as much about living in another country. I only earn $8 a day here but I eat out every meal, I go out three or four times a week rather than the once at home.
Here I make no sacrifice - give or take losing a few TV channels. I can eat western food every day if I want to (and I do at least half the time).
Then again a lovely bowl of Pho Bo (beef noodle soup) is fantastic - right lads, no more work for me. I'm off to slurp noodles.
Catch yer later.
Ouch.
How recently was this? Just I remember within the last few years a charity worker being eaten by a croc. Don't know which country or owt else - I just remember it was fairly big news.
VSO sounds similar to the US Peace Corps. Both are very broad & require two years.
Geekcorps is much more focused - we want techies, hardware or software, from UK or any other tech-leading country, for four months max. Oh and did we say we're much cooler than VSO too?
We're Geekcorps and we eat Linux kernels for breakfast!
PS: thanks for the shout-out!
Geekcorps staff
http://www.geekcorps.org
No problem on the link. :)
It does sound pretty cool - we'll have to get Dogs signed up for it and he can blog about it for us.
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