IESC Geekcorps is an international 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes stability and prosperity in the developing world through information and communication technology (ICT). Geekcorps’ international technology experts teach communities how to be digitally independent by expanding private enterprise with innovative, appropriate, and affordable information and communication technologies.

To increase the capacity of small and medium-sized business, local government, and supporting organizations to be more profitable and efficient using technology, Geekcorps draws on a database of more than 3,500 technical experts willing to share their talents and experience in developing nations.

These long-term professional staff, qualified short-term consultants, and dedicated international technical volunteers implement large-scale, multi-faceted, country-level business development programs using ICT, while transferring the technical skills required to achieve long-term stability.

International technical volunteers are the Geekcorps difference, offering a significant focus on the transfer of skills - a task that is often not possible with consulting agreements where specialists focus only on deliverables, not capacity building or sustainability. Volunteers also offer hundreds of hours of quantifiable in-kind services, both in-country and post-assignment, and un-quantifiable support, access, and passion that only emotionally invested experts can deliver.

Started by Ethan Zuckerman in 1999, Geekcorps became a division of the International Executive Service Corps in 2001. Geekcorps effort to create the capacity of developing nations to maximize the benefits of modern telecommunications is supported by the United States Agency for International Development, generous Geekcorps partners, and individuals like you.