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World Friends Korea IT Volunteer Program

We dispatch the World Friends Korea IT Volunteers composed of students and IT experts of Korea to different parts of the world to provide IT education and carry out projects.

The World Friends Korea IT Volunteers is contributing to enhancing the IT competency of partner countries and bridging the global information gap through manpower exchange. The Group's work is reinforcing the image of Korea as an IT powerhouse and cultivating the global mindset in young IT talents in Korea.
The Volunteer Team & Their Activity
IT volunteer activities are mainly divided into two types :


IT volunteer activities are mainly divided into two types :
Short Term Medium Term
Composition Mainly composed of university students Individual IT expert
Period 1 month 3 months
Details of Activity
  • Provide customized IT education, skills training on Microsoft Office, Photoshop, website building, Android, etc.
  • Participate in IT-related volunteering activities
  • Share cultural exchange with the local communities in areas of K-pop, art, food and etc.
  • Provide advanced IT training in need of systematic and high quality IT education such as web programming, network management, web design and various software programs from basic to an advanced level.
  • Work with public agencies, local companies, or schools in partner countries to implement IT projects on database, network, security, etc.
  • Consult in certain IT field and specifically customized to the need of a local organization


KIV also shares cultural exchange with local communities in the area of Korean music, art, language, food, sports and so on.

Achievement

NIA has sent over 9,000 World Friends IT Volunteers to 78 countries in Asia, the Middle East, CIS, Europe, Latin America, and Africa since 2001. Approximately 400,000 people in government departments, public institutions and universities of partner countries have received IT training.

World Friends IT Volunteers have implemented a number of sustainable projects such as developing the intranet page for Lao Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and Communications and official website for Senate of Cambodia and e-learning content for Guatemalan police. In 2017, Volunteers established an automatic water supply adjustment system using Arduino in Nelson Mandela University, Tanzania.

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission(MCMC) has benchmarked World Friends IT Volunteers program and launched the Malaysian IT Volunteers(MIV) in 2016, Malaysia. MIV is making a huge contribution to bridging the local digital gap in Malaysia.

World Friends IT Volunteers are drawing keen attention from partner countries, more than 1,700 media reports have made in Korea and partner countries and 1,500 letters of appreciation were received since 2001.


Number of Volunteers Dispatched


Number of Volunteers Dispatched
Year '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 Total
Countries 20 27 42 32 33 29 36 41 18 22 22 24 30 24 21 21 21 23 21 8 11 15 21 20 21 78*
Teams 61 47 87 75 86 80 87 117 130 138 153 140 138 138 141 138 114 107 82 10 23 30 52 34 45 2,253
Volunteers 175 206 345 300 320 304 323 442 481 548 612 550 552 552 564 561 446 441 409 30 94 170 208 249 414 9,296

*total accumulated countries

A Total of 74 Countries since 2001


A Total of 78 Countries since 2001
Asia CIS & Europe South and Central Amercia Middle East and Africa
1 Nepal 327 20 Romania 40 34 Dominica 49 52 Ghana 220
2 East Timor 54 21 Bulgaria 82 35 Guatemala 185 53 Nigeria 16
3 Laos 467 22 Czech Republic 4 36 Mexico 8 54 South Africa 44
4 Malaysia 75 23 Serbia 28 37 Brazil 25 55 Rwanda 36
5 Mongolia 563 24 Poland 12 38 Belize 4 56 Madagascar 16
6 Myanmar 20 25 Georgia 19 39 Bolivia 54 57 Malawi 3
7 Bangladesh 299 26 Russia 65 40 Suriname 4 58 Morocco 123
8 Vietnam 930 27 Azerbaijan 38 41 Argentina 26 59 Mauritius 4
9 Bhutan 17 28 Uzbekistan 391 42 Costa Rica 79 60 Mauritania 4
10 Sri Lanka 03 29 Ukraine 69 43 Panama 73 61 Mozambique 28
11 Afghanistan 4 30 Kazakhstan 167 44 Paraguay 139 62 Burundi 4
12 India 50 31 Kyrgyzstan 151 45 Chile 20 63 Senegal 20
13 Indonsia 990 32 Tajikistan 69 46 Peru 87 64 Sudan 4
14 China 248 33 Moldova 178 47 Colombia 78 65 Swaziland 3
15 Cambodia 567 48 Grenada 4 66 Algeria 25
16 Thailand 353 49 El Salvador 20 67 Ethiopia 181
17 Pakistan 16 50 Ecuador 64 68 Uganda 35
18 Papua New Guinea 16 51 Honduras 40 69 Egypt 36
19 Philippines 428 70 Zambia 8
71 Zimbabwe 12
72 Cameroon 12
73 Kenya 73
74 Tanzania 144
75 Tunisia 59
76 Yemen 4
77 Turkey 56
78 Jordan 153
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