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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. 1500 refurbished Macs to Kenya by Henriok · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Swedish Mac-guru Ulf "Omar" Henriksson have single handidly shipped over 1500 used and refurbished Macs to schools, libraries and hospitals in Kenya. Every Mac was donated by Swedish individuals and businesses for this charity purpose.

    In Kenya he have educated quite a lot users and admins in the ins and outs of Mac, the Mac OS and computers in general.

    More info (in Swedish) at http://www.macs-to-africa.info/]Macs to Africa.info.

    If you have any questions, feel free to mail "Omar" at guru.macsupport(at)telia.com.

    And no.. PCs are not welome :)

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    - Henrik

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