Connections
Through
Innovation
Akhtar Badshah
Senior Director
Community Affairs
Microsoft Corporation
Parts of a Whole
Boys & Girls Clubs
Digital Arts Festival
Teen Screen Event – youth
ages 11-18
Finding Innovation everyday
How do you sell an emu?
Use the internet
How does an NYC bicycle
delivery guy become a
graphic designer?
Learn technology skills
Finding Innovation everyday
What is a computer?
Access, connectivity,
innovation
Using technology to raise
rural chickens
Finding Innovation everyday
Tsunami/disaster warning
systems
Info gathered using high-tech,
delivered using low-tech
solutions
What does this mean for us?
The nexus and
intersection of
business,
universities,
research labs,
community
organizations
UP Reach, Impact, Metrics
90+ countries
More than $125M in
cash and software
Curriculum as national
standard
50,000+ media
impressions
Vision: UP and PiL
working together
globally to reach one
quarter of a billion
people by 2010
UP Curriculum
Adopted as national
standard
Endorsed by
governments
Localization plans
3rd party
endorsements
Distributed to and
reaching more than
3500 NGOs
telecentre.org
computers and Internet
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learning and skills
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community radio
economic development
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microcredit
e-democracy
a place to gather
… what’s next?
Impact, Recognition, Partners
Media
pickupour collaboration with
“…Through
Microsoftand
and the creation of the
National
Partners in Learning curriculum, we
international
partnerships
believe we can help ensure that students
around the world are ready for their
High-level
future."
endorsements
of
UP program
-Don Knezek, CEO, International Society
components
for Technology in Education
Opportunities
Research
Creative partnerships
Best practices
Scalability
Connections
Where will we be when next wave of
innovation is created?
How can we intersect with innovations
already happening?
What haven’t we
tapped into?
What more can
businesses,
universities,
community organizations tell/teach us?
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