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eCorps is an international service and learning program for university students and technology professionals to perform valuable work in developing countries - that directly impact their communities. eCorps volunteers assist carefully selected WCE Partners that have received computers from WCE in a variety of ways - from networking to teaching computer skills, and more. eCorps trips offer volunteers a meaningful and unprecedented look at the forces shaping education, the environment and technology in the developing world today.

Expenses related to eCorps trips are tax-deductable as allowed by the government of the home country of participating volunteers. More information is in the box on the left.

WCE's eCorps initiative is tied to the UN's Millennium Goals on poverty eradication and the use of technology in education.

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  • Youth Internet Camps:  University students 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 student volunteers contribute their valuable assistance while becoming aware of the inequality of resources, the challenge of sustainability, and what life is like in a developing country.  We are currently planning camps in El Salvador, Nepal and Tanzania for January and July 2009. 
  • 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 responsible for 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 now in Nigeria in August 2008 at the link in the box on the left. There is also information there about our planning for trips to Kenya and Tanzania in the next few months. WCE is currently exploring interest from our other Partners about to receive computers from WCE. 
  • 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 the country. We also ask eCorps Travelers to take digital pictures for our website. E-mail Timothy Anderson if you are planning a trip to a developing country. Here are some of the countries recently visited by WCE volunteers:  

    • Armenia (July 2008) Steve Sena 
    • Bulgaria (November 2008) Mariya Petkova
    • Ethiopia (August and October 2008) Samson Teffera and Abiyu Berlie
    • Ghana (June 2008) Mike and Marla Delrosa
    • India [Bangalore] (September 2008) Sumona Dey
    • India [Mumbai] (August 2008) HItten Zaveri
    • India [Goa, Pune & Mumbai (November 2008) Meghan Trossen
    • Kenya (August 2008) Henry S. Thairu, Wambui Kinya
    • Nepal (September 2009) Bill Leroy
    • Pakistan (December 2008) Karim Jamal
    • Senegal (July 2008) Lettie Heer
    • Sierra Leone (June 2008) Lucas Aalmans
    • Tanzania (October 2008) Emma Shercliff
  • 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 WCE 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 Manager:  WCE welcomes volunteer Mariya Petkova. 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