Speaker: Mr Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby
Talk Title: Children as a Mission not as a Market
Date: Friday July 22, 2011 Time: 5.00 pm
Venue: IIMB Auditorium, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Registration: The lecture is free of charge and open to all. Book your place online at www.theiet.org/lord-nelson-register or call +9 1 (0) 80 4089 2223 for more details
About the talk: The individual and societal consequences of inadequate education are profound. This lecture will look at the 'One Laptop per Child (OLPC)' mission and, in particular, how technology can play such an important part in empowering the world's poorest children. Mr Arboleda will argue that it is time for change
About the speaker: Mr Rodrigo Arboleda Halaby has worked since 1982 on projects oriented towards bringing digital age technologies to educational systems in developing nations. For more than 40 years he has been involved in areas of marketing, logistics, business development, international operations, government and private sector initiatives in the Ibero American region. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Media Lab of MIT where he worked on the Digital Nations Consortium project.
The Lord Nelson of Stafford Lecture is presented by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Visit: www.theiet.org
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