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World Education Corps

world education corpsWorld  Education Corps, iEARN and Oxford University create a  Global Education Technology Corps. An innovative program  through which volunteers are serving for a year in one of 10 initial countries -- India, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Pakistan, China, USA, Nigeria, Lebanon, and Argentina.  Seed funding  has been provided by Jim Martin, one of the earliest visionaries of  how technology would impact the lives of people throughout the world.  In 1977, Jim Martin wrote "The Wired Society," in which he  predicted the widespread use of personal computers and Internet, long  before either existed. His new book, "The Meaning of the 21st  Century" was published in 2005--the year that the first WEC  volunteers received their orientation at Kellogg College at Oxford University and then arrived in their host countries to start their year of service. See http://www.worldeducationcorps.org.
 
Check out some of the blogs of this year's volunteers: 
George Appiah (Ghana) with iEARN-Uganda http://georgeappiah.wecblogs.org/
Lev Gavrish (Uzbekistan) with iEARN-Tanzania http://gavrish.wecblogs.org/
Oscar Kirstein (Argentina) with iEARN-Ghana http://sakumono.wecblogs.org/
Paul Metni (Lebanon) with iEARN-China http://www.emetni.com/wp2/
Ahmed Ndaula (Uganda) with iEARN-USA http://ahmed.wecblogs.org/
Prairie Summer (USA) with iEARN-Lebanon http://prairie.wecblogs.org/.



 iEARN was honored as a Laureate in the Education category for the 2004 Tech Museum Awards
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  iEARN received a 2003 Goldman Sachs' Prize for Excellence in International Education with the Asia Society
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