Milwaukee
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“A continent, not a crisis” talk slides now available
My presentation from the Engineers Without Borders Conference in Milwaukee (March 27-28, 2009) is now online. You can view it online here, or download the PowerPoint file (.ppt) here. Everything is made available under a Creative Commons license, naturally.
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This week: Cyrus in Madison and Milwaukee
Just a quick reminder: I’ll be speaking in Madison to kick off the “Africa Forward” lecture series this Thursday on the UW-Madison campus: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:30pm – 5:30pm 5055 Vilas Hall 821 University Avenue I’ll also be speaking on Friday and Saturday (March 27-28) at the Engineers without Borders conference in Milwaukee, talking about how to best leverage information technology in Africa. Tell your friends, and if you’re a blog reader/Twitter follower, please come say hi!
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I’m speaking at the Engineers Without Borders Conference in Milwaukee (March 27-28, 2009)
A few weeks ago I was contacted out of the blue by an old UW-Madison professor, James Delahanty. As the academic advisor to my group (and current groups) of Madison students studying in Senegal, he was our stateside pointman for those of us trying to navigate our experience abroad. (I also slept on the floor of his Dakar hotel room in January 2007.) Jim recommended me to the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders, who was looking for someone to…