Geekcorps Mali’s LMI Blog

On Wednesday of last week I left Bamako to investigate some of the potential sites and routes we were thinking of using for the Cyber-tigi project. It took 600Km to make the circuit, but it was worth every one of them. It turns out we likely have to reevaluate a couple of our sites and […]

Meet the Geeks

Before we get to far along into this process, it’s time to meet some of the key members of the Geekcorps Team.  Besides bringing (as I’m sure you already gathered) a lot of enthusiasm and energy to the table, we are particularly excited to have Brennan for his indepth knowledge and understanding […]

These are exciting times around Geekcorps Mali. As Brennan mentioned in earlier posts, under the Last Mile Initiative Geekcorps has been tasked with the challenge of finding an innovative and sustainable approach to bringing ICT services to the “last mile”, the people in rural Mali most of whom who never touched yet-alone seen a […]

As was mentioned in the last post we’ve finally settled on a final name for the LMI we have underway. And the winner is…. Cyber-tigi.
Special thanks to Katie McDonald, third year Peace Corps Volunteer for her input. During a brainstorming session with a group of PCVs at the Geekcorps office last Saturday we tossed around […]

It has been a flurry of activity over here in the past week. From deciding the Canon PowerShot A410 might be a slightly better fit than the A400, to Matt Berg our director negotiating tooth and nail for the Yamaha motorcycle we need for the project. By the end of the week we had the […]

So today was digital camera hunting day.

For the project we need to find a decent, all purpose, inexpensive camera that we can use for taking pictures in and around the villages that we plan to service. Why, you might ask, do you need to take pictures in these villages? Well, the answer is simple: it’s […]

Linux has Tux the penguin, Nintendo has Mario & Luigi, and Pixar has Luxo Jr…

But none, and I mean NONE, holds a candle to the new Geekcorps Mali mascot. My friends, please welcome the newest addition to the team, Gizmo.
(his ears perk up when you say Open Source)

Gizmo, the Geekcorps Mali mascot

Welcome to the Geekcorps Mali Last Mile Initiative (LMI) project blog. We have a great project underway and we’d like to share what we’re up to with you.

The project itself is called CyberMobili – at least that’s what we’re calling it at the moment – and it has some real merit. In case you were […]