World
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:
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