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<p> Hello All - Could interest someone. Sorry if any crosspost.</p><pre>On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:14:33 +0300, "Othieno, Louis" <LOthieno@ke.peacecorps.gov> said:
</pre><blockquote class="QuoteMessage" type="cite"><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello all,</font> </p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Pardon me for emailing without your consent. I need your assistance in getting the information in the attachment to people you might know that are qualified and interested in a short term assignment to train American ICT professionals -mostly context stuff related to application of ICT in developing country situations in general, and Kenya in particular.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">The job of these Volunteers numbering about 10 will be to locate in a rural setting and use their knowledge of ICT to bring the benefits of ICT to the population within which they are living. This requires them to understand intimately the barriers between people and information technology in rural developing country contexts - and appreciate how they can use their generic knowledge of the technology within our technical context to harness ICT for the benefit of the communities to which the Peace Corps will assign them. </font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">If you know someone who is able to engage effectively at these three levels i.e</font> </p><ul><li><font face="Arial" size="2">Moving the technology to the people</font> </li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">Moving the people to the technology</font> </li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">Kenya's technical and policy context with regards to ICT</font> <br /></li></ul><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Kindly encourage them to apply before the 24th of September, 2008. I appreciate it.</font> </p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Peruse also the e-leaflet I attach for a quick understanding of what these American Volunteers do. (The leaflet covers business Volunteers as well). If you know of any social-benefit projects needing programmers, computer graphics people, web designers, computer maintenance or plain IT teachers etc - to work for them while located away from Nairobi - send them to me... I appreciate it</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers all</font> </p><p><font face="Arial" size="2">Louis Othieno</font> <br /><font face="Arial" size="2">Associate Director</font> <br /><font face="Arial" size="2">Small Enterprise Development and ICT</font> <br /><font face="Arial" size="2">U.S. PEACE CORPS IN KENYA</font> </p><p><b><i><font face="Tahoma" color="#ff00ff" size="2">"The cost of everything has to be paid for somehow. Our human travails, most of the time, avail only in changing who pays, when and how" </font></i></b></p><p><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><<ICT TTF VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT 2008 Sept 09.doc>> </font><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><<PROMOTION FLYER.doc>> </font></p></blockquote>
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