Geekcorps

Humanitarian and banker Elisa Korentayer became co-founder of Geekcorps due to the organization's need of financial wisdom.[3] In effort to increase access to current information and bridge the digital divide in developing nations Zuckerman, and associates from his now bought out internet company tripod, funded most of the $350,000 budget for Geekcorps' first year.Initial challenges for Geekcorps were communication and teaching skills needed by volunteers, and reliance on outdated programming languages for local businesses.[5] Geekcorps involvement led to innovations such as a new java based payment system for local businesses in Ghana.[6] Initial assistance in Mali came from the CMRT (Community Mobilization through Radio Technology) program sponsored by USAID.
A Geekcorps volunteer setting up a Wi-Fi antenna in Mali
A Malian man writes an article ("Wisdom") for the Fula language Wikipedia in the Geekcorps Mali headquarters.
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