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Peace Corps to Wire Senegal

Posted by michael on from the goodwill-to-men dept.

An anonymous submitter wrote: "Peace Corps Online is reporting on the White House's Digital Freedom Initiative that will place volunteers from the Peace Corps, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco in a pilot program in Senegal where they will leverage nearly 200 cybercafes and 10,000 telecenters to provide opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The idea isn't new - David Rothman proposed an Electronic Peace Corps in 1984, the Geek Corps has been doing this kind of work in Ghana for years, and the Peace Corps already has about 1,500 volunteers working in information technology."

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  1. Swell! by LeoDV · · Score: 5, Funny

    We've got no food, but now we've got BROADBAND! (First post?)

  2. And Now the News... by johndiii · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "Senegalese Minister" scam overtakes the "Nigerian Minister" scam as the leading scam spam theme.

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  3. yay by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I will get twice as many BUSINESS PROPOSALS from DR ZUNAGA MBASAWA in SOME RANDOM COUNTRY trying to get me to help him wire $75000000USD from his recently deceased father's offshore account.

  4. Sutil slogan changes... by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hippie: "Make love, not war"
    Yuppie: "Make lan, not war"

  5. How long before... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...we see 419-style senegalese scams???

    (What is the number of the senegalese penal code that prohibits such scams???)

  6. Business Opportunity by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    they will leverage nearly 200 cybercafes and 10,000 telecenters to provide opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

    Great. Now AOL will be intercepting 2 billion spams / month, from a new country tld.

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  7. Woo-hoo! Where to next? by Uninvited+Guest · · Score: 2, Funny

    When does the Peace Corps come to my neighborhood, here in the US? This would be so...*ring* Hold on... call coming in...

    What's that? Peace Corps? Yes. Overseas only? I see. Nothing inside the US? Aha.*click*

    Never mind.

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  8. WTF!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    WTF? Why are we wiring Senegal when I can't even get DSL to my neighborhood? %&*%$#!!!