[ankaAr]

I don't like clowns, but this is really nice for that people. great project I'm sharing it and donating something.

Anyway, is there somewhere, something like IT without Borders? To donate time or effort, our hands to build infraestructure for places wothout it?

[runarberg]

Interesting question. I don’t know if there is but I presume there isn’t, unlike doctors, artists, or journalists, engineers usually need a lot of thing to come together to perform our specialized skills, which means we probably need local and financial support far greater then the previous.

It can be argued that the same applied to doctors, and I agree with that, however MSF is such a massive organization, with such high recognition that they are able to perform a lot of good work despite the complexity of logistics and support needed.

Perhaps the immediate benefit of even rudimentary medical aid is still highly appreciated even if lacking compared to if there were systems in place to fully support the skill. I think the benefits of skilled engineers are not nearly as universal without support.

EDIT: I found this article called A-To-Z Guide of the World’s “without Borders” Groups[1], which included a Technology without Borders group[2]. And I see some of the areas they focus on include water, energy, and waste. I can actually see how rudimentary waste management infrastructure can be of great help for impoverished communities, so perhaps I was wrong to doubt it.

1: https://matadornetwork.com/change/a-to-z-guide-of-the-worlds...

2: https://www.teog.ngo/?lang=en

[aendruk]

At one point this existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeks_Without_Bounds

Their website doesn’t seem to be doing well at the moment though.

I originally learned about it from https://seagl.org/archive/2017/open-source-from-standing-roc...