November 3, 2010 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Information Collection and Exchange: ICE

Nov 03 2010

“Sanitation through Innovation: the Tube Sock Toilet — Congo 1997” Wouldn’t that be fun to read! Or, “Peace Corps Tunisia: The Legacy 1962–1996 — Tunisia 1996”; or “Botswans: Preservice Training Re-entry Group 2 Final Technical Report, May 04 — Botswana”; or, “Peace Corps Tunisia: The Legacy 1962-1996 — Tunisia 1996”; or “Reflecting Life: A Workshop on HIV/AIDS Education and Awareness — Thailand 2004.” These are just a sample of a wide range of field generated materials found in the Peace Corps’ Information Collection and Exchange or ICE. Field generated materials are those created in the field by Peace Corps staff and Volunteers. Since the beginning, Peace Corps has provided technical information from all sources to Volunteers in the field. Sometimes this service was provided within the Publication and Information Center or PIC, sometimes within the Peace Corps Library. In 1975, this function was formalized as the Information Collection and Exchange or . . .

Words Of Wisdom From "When The World Calls"

Nov 03 2010

These last few days I have been having the pleasure of reading Stanley Meisler’s When The World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and its First Fifty Years. (The book will be published in February but you can go on-line now to Amazon.com and order your copy.) There are a lot of gems in Stan’s narrative, background stories on questions you might have had on ‘why in the hell is the Peace Corps doing this?,’ etc. that Meisler, a former foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, now answers for you. What I liked especially is the way Stan summed up the story on the agency in a short and telling, and I believe, very true statement, writing in his Introduction: “The Peace Corps has one great inner resource. The strength of the Peace Corps has always depended on the energy and commitment of the Volunteers. No matter . . .

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