This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Professor Craig Warren Smith, Chairman of the Digital Divide Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Now that cell phones have reached even remote villages in Asian emerging markets, Asia's commercial supply chains and governments are now intent on achieving "broadband for all." Can this "Second Wireless Revolution" be achieved? If so, will it be beneficial or harmful to individuals, to their communities and the environment? In this talk, Craig will present a model called "meaningful broadband" which combines innovations in technology-design, public policy, finance, and ethics. Embraced by governments and ICT stakeholders in Indonesia and Thailand, this model is the basis of new public private partnerships and strategic alliances that aim to help bring balance and sustainability to the global economy. Prof Smith will focus in particular on Indonesia, which is preparing to deploy a $9.4 billion public private partnership plan, overseen by President SBY, to bring broadband meaningfully to 65 million low income Indonesians by 2014. For more on his work and Digital Divide Institute, see www.DigitalDivide.org<http://www.digitaldivide.org/> . Craig Warren Smith, born in Seattle, has been a leader of the worldwide movement to close the "digital divide" since he co-organized a major conference in Seattle hosted by Bill Gates Sr. in 1999. An expert in CSR, he was asked in 1996 to help Microsoft design its global system of corporate community relations. Since 2000 he has led efforts to formulate solutions to bring digital divide for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, as a Harvard/MIT researcher with Jeff Sachs and Nicholas Negroponte, and as a lecturer in technology policy at National University of Singapore. For the past 30 years his avocation has been the teaching and practicing of Buddhist meditation. His lectures on"spiritual computing" have been received worldwide by Google, Nokia Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research (Almaden), Yahoo! and universities around the world. He currently teaches a training program called Mindfulness 24/7" to high tech corporate employees in Thailand. Since, 2006, he has been Senior Advisor to UW's Human Interface Technology Laboratory. Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about the Second Wireless Revolution: Bringing Broadband to the "Next Two Billion" in Asia's Emerging Markets! *What:* Craig Warren Smith on the Second Wireless Revolution: Bringing Broadband to the "Next Two Billion" in Asia's Emerging Markets *When:* Thursday, Oct 13th at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20111010/a5a2ccf5/attachment.html>
