{"id":281,"date":"2006-03-02T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/geekcorps-a-peace-corps-for-techies\/"},"modified":"2006-03-02T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T17:56:59","slug":"geekcorps-a-peace-corps-for-techies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/geekcorps-a-peace-corps-for-techies\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekcorps: A Peace Corps for techies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another volunteer outfit that can essentially be thought of as a Peace Corps with a focus on PCs. The organization recruits technical experts to conceive ideas for integrating technology into local economies in a self-sustaining way.<\/p>\n<p>This is extremely interesting, they pay you (airfare, accommodation, insurance and a monthly living stipend) to goto places like Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania), Central Asia (Armenia, Kyrgystan), Northeast Asia (Mongolia), Southeast Asia (Thailand), Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Mali) and the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan). <\/p>\n<p>I will be taking part in this sometime next year as this year I have pre-existing obligations. The average tour is 4 months.<\/p>\n<p>Group Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekcorps.org\/\">Geekcorps.org<\/a><br \/>\nMore details: <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/2100-1035_11-6043635.html\">TechRepublic Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/5247-6257-0.html?id=598322&#038;tag=nl.e019\">Sonja&#8217;s Blog<\/a> for the link to this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another volunteer outfit that can essentially be thought of as a Peace Corps with a focus on PCs. The organization recruits technical experts to conceive ideas for integrating technology into local economies in a self-sustaining way. This is extremely interesting, they pay you (airfare, accommodation, insurance and a monthly living stipend) to goto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}