Mobilmentum: Accelerating Mobile For Development SWF – 2013
Speakers
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Co-Founder, Turn.io
Gustav Praekelt is a founder based in Africa. He builds and supports organisations that use technology to empower people.
In 2003, he founded Praekelt Consulting, (now Helm Africa), a for-profit designing digital products and services to help Africa’s biggest brands turn complex customer journeys into simple experiences.
His belief in the power of mobile phones to transform lives inspired him to establish the Praekelt Foundation in 2006 - which imagines a world in which personal, uninterrupted healthcare is available to everyone. Praekelt.org (Now Reach Digital Health) has been at the forefront of digital health, being involved involved in the early use of mobile technology in HIV treatment, Maternal and Child health and more recently, helping governments and iNGOS respond to the COVID pandemic in the global south.
In 2018, Gustav established Turn.io, a platform that enables social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations to improve lives at global scale.
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Founder, kiwanja.net, FrontlineSMS
Ken Banks, Founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He has worked at the intersection of technology, anthropology, conservation and development for the past 20 years, and has lived and worked across the African continent. He is a PopTech Fellow, a Tech Awards Laureate, an Ashoka Fellow and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and has been internationally recognised for his technology-based work.
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Director of Mobile Solutions, USAID
Priya Jaisinghani serves as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and the Director of Mobile Solutions for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She has previously served as Program Officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launching a $1 billion Global Development Program, and as Development Officer in the South Asia Program of the UN Foundation. Priya received a BA in Commerce from the University of Virginia and received an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS.
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Senior Director, GSMA Mobile for Development
Fiona Smith is a Senior Director at GSMA Mobile for Development which works with mobile operators to accelerate mobile solutions for people living under $2 per day. Fiona leads the service programme area which includes mAgriculture, mHealth, mobile for employment and digital inclusion. During her time at GSMA she founded the mAgriculture programme and managed a range of rural connectivity projects across Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the GSMA, Fiona worked for Accenture, VSO and as an independent consultant. Fiona is particularly interested in how to use technology to enable sustainable and ethical supply chains and linkages.
