Clouds, Crowds And Social Change
Friday, April 1, 2011
Session Description
Innovations in mobile, social networking, cloud computing and open source offer tremendous promise toward bridging the people, institutions, information and efforts required for significant change. At the same time,critical challenges emerge as applications proliferate and sometimes clash in real-world efforts to make a difference. Join this session of experts and innovators as they discuss real world experiences in leveraging these technologies for social benefit.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Friday, April 1, 2011
BST
Speakers
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Director of Social Innovation, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Patrick Meier is an internationally recognised thought leader on the application of new technologies for crisis early warning, humanitarian response, human rights and civil resistance. He is currently Director of Social Innovation at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Previously, he served as Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi and previously co-directed Harvard's Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning. Patrick holds a PhD from The Fletcher School, a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Stanford and an MA from Columbia University. He was born and raised in Africa.
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President, Blueprint Research Design, Inc.
Lucy Bernholz is the founder and President of Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., a strategy consulting firm. Bernholz is the publisher of Philanthropy2173, an award winning blog on the business of giving and was named a national Game Changer by The Huffington Post. She is a Fellow at the New American Foundation and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Bernholz is the author of Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. Bernholz has a BA from Yale University and a MA and PhD from Stanford University.
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General Manager, Participant TAG, Participant Media
Christopher Gebhardt joined Participant Media in September 2008 to lead the start up of Participant’s digital division, the hub of which is takepart.com. In 2013 created TAG, a new division of Participant offering cause marketing, creative and consulting services to brands and foundations. Prior to joining Participant, Chris was with Ogilvy, Pepsi, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and also launched several media, digital, and consulting ventures.
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CEO, Mulago Foundation
Kevin Starr leads the Mulago Foundation. Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organizations with scalable solutions to poverty. Mulago’s two fellows programs teach early-stage social entrepreneurs how to 1) design for maximum impact and 2) build strategies for maximum scale. Most fellows become part of the Mulago solutions portfolio, which provides unrestricted funding as long as there is impressive progress toward impact at scale.
Kevin started out in medicine and practiced until founding Mulago. He and his team now work with 50 portfolio organizations, many of which have become leaders in the social sector, along with 40 fellows leading organizations in Africa, South Asia, and South America.
