Dear All,
Perhaps Afghanistan is not the first place you think of when considering your next vacation or internship. But since OLPC are donating 10,000 G1G1 machines Afghanistan and is working with the top level of the Ministry of Education this could very well become a showpiece for OLPC in S. Asia. We are looking for 2 Interns / Graduates / Motivated volunteers to help us building the capacity of the local team. We need to operate university outreach programs, training, and a fair bit of direct server config in advance of having sufficient locally built capacity. We are looking through various graduate/student/internship organisations. We can offer flight support, accommodation, and a living stipend (salary / pocket money of $300+ a month, covers living quite reasonably here). Afghanistan day to day in most provinces and most places remains pretty safe - one can walk around, go out, visit people using taxis or your own car. Driving can be just a little chaotic, but nowhere near as bad as in India. If you look beyond the media there is a lot to see here, hospitality that even exceeds other developing countries, and really rapid progress. There are some places (like the south) that are dangerous, but in Kabul and the north things are pretty stable. One just needs to know places to go to and places to stay away from (like military bases, big foreigner parties, etc). Right now we are half way through setting up an open source localisation team for Afghanistan and building the open source community. For those of you who are more interested in remote contributions to Afghanistan specifically, a chance will be upcoming in the next months. Afghanistan could be the case study that shows the ability of the XO to be at the center of redevelopment. If we can make the XO work here - then we can prove to the world that it can work almost anywhere! You might hear on the news about the chronic waste of money out here, the hundreds of millions missing, wasted, and worse. And you know how cost effectively the XO can change that. The great thing about Afghanistan, is being a development work in progress, we can together, and will, improve that situation. I hope we can find some people to join us on the ground and help make that happen. Thanks/Regards, -Mike Details, country information, etc. for the formal job title can be found under 'IT Coach' at http://www.paiwastoon.com.af/mainpages-en/careers-intl.sxw.html . -- Mike Dawson Deputy CEO PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +93 (798) 258 092 VOIP: +44 (161) 408 3048 Skype: mike.dawson PAIWASTOON Networking Services Ltd. Next to Ariana TV / Radio Daral-Amman Kabul, Afghanistan _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
