Peace Corps to Wire Senegal

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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Yeah, great

[Satan's Minion 666]

West African nations are renowned on all levels for political/economic corruption. I enjoy the fact that my tax dollars are helping me towards the day when my credit card number is stolen by some 14-year-old Senegalese. Senegal used to be a French colony, shouldn't this be, you know, FRANCE'S problem? Not that there's anything good to hack on Le Minitel these days, anyway.