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Geeking in the Third World

Posted by michael on from the thar-be-dragons dept.

suzipaw writes "Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, late of Tripod, gets some well-deserved media attention for his good works via an interview on oreilly.com. What he and other volunteers are doing on behalf of developing nations is pretty darn cool. And humbling--makes this first-worlder grateful for a regular power supply."

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  1. Help by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    child: papa, will we eat today?
    father: no my son, but we will get to search the internet for information on food and food-like products.

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  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

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  3. Re:Hey! Didn't you read that e-mail? by Surak · · Score: 4, Funny
    It says:


    PLEASE, THIS TRANSACTION REQUIRES ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY AND YOU
    WOULD BE EXPECTED TO TREAT IT AS SUCH UNTILL THE FUNDS ARE MOVED OUT
    OF THIS COUNTRY.


    and

    PLEASE, YOU WILL ALSO IGNORE THIS LETTER AND RESPECT OURTRUST IN YOU
    BY NOT EXPOSING THIS TRANSACTION, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED.
    I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.


    So you go ahead and post it on Slashdot! Like no one's gonna see it there! Sheesh! Remind me never to ask you for help moving my money out of the country! It's not like they send those e-mails to just ANYBODY ya know!

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  4. to hear some people talk around here... by hopeless+case · · Score: 5, Funny

    this guy should be admonished for attempting to teach IT skills to a third world country. Next thing you know, greedy american companies will be outsourcing IT or programming work to people in Ghana for pennies and letting 3 well-paid American programmers go.

    For the sarsacm inpaired, I think what this guy is doing is great. What I don't think is great is the guild/labor mentailty of some programmers and IT people who think there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world.