About eCorps
The WCE eCorps arranges for university students and technology professionals to perform valuable service work in developing countries. These volunteers assist carefully selected WCE Partners that have received computers from WCE. eCorps programs offer volunteers an unprecedented look at the forces shaping education, the environment and technology in the developing world today. This initiative is tied to the UN's Millennium Goals on poverty eradication and the use of technology in education.
- Youth Internet Camps: University students are invited to participate in a three-week service-learning study abroad programs each year in January or July. The students act as staff in one of our Internet camps for youth in a developing country. eCorps university students volunteer to contribute their valuable assistance while becoming more aware of the inequality of resources, the challenge of sustainability, and what life is like in a developing country. We are planning camps in Bolivia, El Salvador, Nepal and Tanzania for January and July 2009. The expenses of these WCE trips are tax-deductable as allowed by the government of the participating volunteer. More information is in the box on the left.
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Tech Teams: Several times a year, WCE sends volunteer teams of tech professionals for two weeks. The trips are scheduled a few weeks after the arrival of computers from WCE. Our tech teams work with local tech teams who will be taking care of the computers over the long term. Together the teams work on network configuration and community orientation about technology and Internet issues. See the story about our team going to Nigeria in August 2008 at the link in the box on the left. There is also information there about our planning for trips to Honduras, Tanzania, Nepal and Bolivia. WCE is exploring interest from our other Partners that are about to receive computers from WCE. The expenses of these WCE trips are tax-deductable as allowed by the government of the participating volunteer.
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Travelers: WCE regularly needs Programme Officers and other individual volunteers to visit a developing country for about a week to help meet with groups that are interested in WCE. They meet with WCE's Partners and potential Partners to plan our next shipment of computers and to evaluate and write stories about the status, use, and impact of our prior shipments to that country. We also ask that they take some digital pictures for this website. The expenses of these WCE trips are tax-deductable as allowed by the government of the participating volunteer. Recent volunteers: Armenia (July), Ethiopia (September), Ghana (June), India (September), Senegal (July), Sierra Leone (June), and Tanzania (October). Please e-mail Timothy Anderson if you are planning a trip to a developing country.
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Speakers Bureau: WCE's 25 chapters recruit speakers from their volunteers who are expatriates, or who have traveled for WCE, or are local Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. The chapters then arrange for them to speak to Rotary Clubs, universities and schools. Please let your chapter know if you are interested. You can find chapters along the green navigation line above.
WCE eCorps Consortium: WCE is recruiting a group of 12 experts in this field to help guide this work. Under the guidance of these 12 experts, our eCorps Intern is also preparing orientation materials for use by our 190 Programme Officers and by our 90 eCorps Volunteers with our 465 WCE Partners in 65 developing countries.
WCE eCorps Intern: WCE welcomes Mariya Petkova as our eCorps Intern for June-August 2008. Mariya is from Bulgaria and is an international student at Brown University. Click here to see her RESUME. You can contact her at: eCorps@WorldComputerExchange.org
