[Bradford] [lugmaster] Looking for Volunteers for ICT Project in Guyana

[Richard Thomas]

From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
Date: 2009/4/29
Subject: [lugmaster] Fwd: Looking for Volunteers for ICT Project in Guyana
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Thought this might be interesting to some LUG members in the UK..
Please pass on to your LUGs if you think so too.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Paul Webster" <Paul.Webster at navca.org.uk>
Date: Apr 29, 2009 5:51 PM
Subject: [ukriders] Looking for Volunteers for ICT Project in Guyana
To: "Ukriders at Lists. Lasa. Org. Uk (ukriders at lists.lasa.org.uk)"
<ukriders at lists.lasa.org.uk>

Hello there

I need your help. I'm working with a Commonwealth Youth Exchange
Council/British Council/VSO (soup) project which is trying to recruit
four or so young adult volunteers to spend up to six-weeks in Guyana
this summer running an ICT Skill Share.

Guyana right now has a massive skills gap when it comes to online
skills. They had some investment in a national resource centre for
using technology in education a few years back - but it's barely been
able to get anywhere because of skills gaps & lack of infrastructure
in the country. Guyana is one

Details of the project (including a video that the Guyanese hosts for
the project have made explaining it a bit more) here:
http://www.cyec.org.uk/guyana-ict

but in summary I'm asking do you know anyone who:

Is aged 18 - 30(ish)
Is based in Britain (or has very close ties to the UK even if
elsewhere right now);
Has web development, graphics, e-commerce or digital animation skills;
Can train / share those skills with others;
Can work in a pretty tough environment in terms of climate, context
and access to technical kit & bandwidth;
Could spend six-weeks in Guyana from late June/early July this year as
part of a small team?

Quite a skill spec I know - but I thought if such people are out there
- you are the folk who are likely to know them.

Please do forward on details to anyone (or any networks) who you think
might be interested.

http://www.cyec.org.uk/guyana-ict

We're going to have a recruitment day in London on the 16th May - and
we're asking anyone who might be interested to drop us their CV ASAP,
and by the 8th May at the latest...

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

All the best

   Tim

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