Bonus points for using the word Nyarlathotep!

If you take an fMRI of a dead man and of a dead woman, you will indeed find that they will have the same cognitive capabilities. Being dead and all.

Having more than one wife is quite common, formally, in big parts of the world. Having more than one wife, serially so one after the other, is also quite normal in what you call The World. Try thinking of anyone successful who traded his wife for a younger one. That shouldn't be too hard.

They hate religion *and* free thought? Those 2 are direct opposities! What else is there tot 'hate'?

Finally time to get your Paddy!

I looked at the 3 big ones, alfresco, KM and Nuxeo, and like the latter best. For one, their full version == their GPL version. So if you want to do it all yourself, you will get all the features.

Secondly, I found the interface nice and simple.

Thirdly, they have this option where you can open a document from your browser, edit it and save it back into the DM system directly. (That requires a plugin for your browser & office). They used to have an openoffice version of that plugin too. Very sweet.

There might even be a LUG :-) Once you hit the local scene (which you can start working on remotely) you will find there is so much to do, you might consider staying.
My wife & I did, and still loving every bit of it for the last 5 years.

There is quite a few tech-companies helping too. Here is a small list:

• Inveneo. They are helping setting up a terrestrial wireless network. Because that is one of the things they do. http://www.inveneo.org/?q=haiti-response
• ushahidi is setting up and managing their crisis-reporting application here http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ more of what they do is here: http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/15/haiti-update/
• The missing persons registry is here: http://www.haitianquake.com/ (google took that one over, it seems)
• There is a CrisisCamp for techies going on in DC today. They need GIS experts & programmers specifically. If you are in the area, here are the details: http://ow.ly/WQDD
• The university of heidelberg (yup, not a company) has put up a routing service based on Openstreetmap data: http://openls.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/osm-haiti/
• There is more on what the OSM community has done here: http://www.opengeodata.org/2010/01/14/haiti-openstreetmap-response/

In short, you don't even have to go to Haiti to be a helpful techie.

Absolutely correct.

Africa is all about m-banking at the moment. It's extremely popular,all mobile operators are rolling it out: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539444/606272/-/rv5n6h/-/index.html

Next step would definitly be online banking, as in, not tied to a mobile operator, using (much cheaper) IP than mobile connections, and if the banks can finally get serious, proper banks running it.

Mobile Money is hugely popular in Africa, where the banking system is archaic, expensive and inflexible, but everybody has a mobile phone. The biggest success story so far is called M-Pesa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa in Kenya. But more and more providers offer these services. A company called Zain http://www.zain.com/ now offers international mobile transfers within their network. Glad we are exporting some experience.

That was once true for the hoolahoop, too. Seen those lately?