 |  When Ethan Zuckerrnan went to Ghana in 1993 as a Fulbright scholar in percussion, he immediately tried to gel online; he was a Usenet junkie and eager to e-mail hisgirl-friend [now his wife]. But in bustling Accra, he found only one temperamental Net connec-tion.Zuckerman later became vice president of R&D at Web-hosting company Tripod, which made him a dot-corn millionaire, but he never forgot Ghana's inadequate communications. In July 1999 he left Tripod and in February 2000 cofounded Geekcorps in North Adams, MA. Geekcorps sends volunteers with information technology expertise to underdeveloped coun-tries for four-month stints, where they help businesses—from furniture factories to radio sta-tions—get online, expand sales and thus create jobs. One volunteer even helped launch the Ghanaian parliament's Web sites. Funded by foundations, aid agencies and private donors, Geekcorps has sent 35 tutors to Ghana and several other countries. A recent merger with the International Executive Service Corps gives Zuckerman the support to expand much further. There's no shortage of volunteers; more than 1,100 people are on Geckcorps's waiting list.
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