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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. Really?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other news no one gives A HOLY FUCK about Senegal.

    1. Re:Really?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Lemme guess, you're a McDonalds eating, torn jeans wearing, wife beating, trailer park living, homophobic faggot American?!!
      Yeah! Why don't you go beat up a fag for being gay, then watch some football with men in tights and touch your buddies' beer bellies, ya fag!

  2. First Assfuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Spread, please. :o)

  3. Hi R U M/F? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am sengal from. U f? U tke it from the bak? :)

  4. Re:yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, those fucking niggers.

  5. Senewhere? by E-Rock-23 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Um, hello? I still don't have broadband in rural central Pennsylvania yet. Why the hell are they wiring some place I've only ever heard of three times in my life? And what makes them so damn special anyway? We have our own poverty stricken population to worry about. Where the hell is the Peace Corps on that little subject, eh? Oh yeah, they're walking down a city streat, ignoring a bum's pleas for some spare change so he can go to McGreaseballs to get a burger, the only thing he's had to eat all day.

    Fuck reaching out to third world countries. Or at least fuck it until we fix our own domestic problems. Of course, with Bushy boy wanting to drop a few bombs on some backward-ass dictator in the world's biggest sandbox, don't expect any fundage to go to domestic issues anytime soon...

    In short, we need to get our own ducks in a row first. Senegal has gone this long without it, they can wait another few years...

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  6. Yeah, great by Satan's+Minion+666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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