As part of Secretary Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft initiative,Tech@State

http://www.state.gov/statecraf…

connects established leaders, new innovators, government personnel, and others to work together on 21st century technology solutions to improve the education, health, and welfare of the world’s population.

In its first iteration, Tech@State: Haiti,

http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/…

participants from the private sector, NGOs, academia, the Haitian Diaspora, and the public sector demonstrated and discussed their innovations in Haiti. The event served as an idea and technology exchange among participants and ignited those attending to collaborate on current and future projects in Haiti and in other nations.

The second iteration, Tech@State: Mobile Money,

http://www.state.gov/statecraf…  

will be held August 2, 2010.

Video at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/…

I learned of this series through Jan Chipchase, formerly of Nokia and presently with Frog Design,

http://janchipchase.com/2010/0…

His presentation

http://designmind.frogdesign.c… – text and slides

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded… – video

was part of the morning on Mobile Money on August 2, 2010:

http://www.state.gov/statecraf…

crossposted to bluemassgroup.com, dailykos.com, globalswadeshi.net, and eurotrib.com,  

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