Effective Communication - A Peace Corps and PBwiki Case Study - The Daily Peanut - 0 views
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You see what we are trying to do is build a space on the internet where the volunteers can share information and ideas on how to further the development projects in their countries. We are doing this outside the confines of Peace Corps Washington and therefore it is on our measly salaries to get this thing off and running.
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Barbara Lindsey on 02 Nov 08Sounds like they aren't getting the support they need from the gov. Taking ownership and control over their own situation. Nice!
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The main purpose behind the wiki though is too make volunteers more successful in their service by giving the easy access to volunteer ideas and information that has already been field tested by their predecessors.
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Before the wiki we had no way of 1) sharing ideas, 2) storing them in an easy or searchable way, 3) communicating with other volunteer countries and 4) making this information accessible to volunteers who hadn’t arrived in country yet. What we have done with the wiki is begin to collect the volunteer created resources and sort and group them so that volunteers can quickly and easily find what they are looking for.
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