By David Dewane | Project Director
Hi all,
Some recent updates from Libraries Across Africa:
1) LAA wins Best Innovation Leveraging Technology Award for the Dell Social Innovation Competition. This award came with a $10,000 prize in addition to a $2,000 technology gift and a student fellowship for Kevin Simmons (one of our MBAs) to a business development workshop at Brown University this summer.
2) Idris Bello, Director of Business Development, pitched LAA at several conferences, including Unite For Sight Global Health and Innovation, Starting Bloc '11, and Singularity University. Idris was also named the Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05/huffpost-greatest-person-of-day_n_890504.html
3) LAA is No 2 on Ashoka's 20 Organizations to Watch in the Educational Technology Space.
Currently, LAA is working towards the construction of a prototype eHub in Houston Fall 2011 with the intention of using this in the first LAA library deployed in Ghana in early 2012. Thanks for your support and we look forward to keeping you posted as we continue to develop.
Regards,
David Dewane
By David Dewane | Project Director
By David Dewane | Project Director
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