DV Workshop:
Date: October 31, 2006

Speaker bio:

Ken Banks joins the Program as a Collaboration Fellow, working with other DVP Fellows to help design and develop their projects. He has a degree in social anthropology and development studies and brings with him over 20 years of high-tech experience from the private, corporate and non-profit sectors. Over the past thirteen years Ken has worked on numerous conservation and development projects in Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and for the past three has run his own consultancy - kiwanja.net - specializing in the application of mobile technology in the non-profit sector. Ken project managed the European rollout of the first conservation-based mobile portal in 2003/2004 with Vodafone and has more recently worked with the likes of Microsoft, Fauna & Flora International and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on the practical application of technology for social and environmental benefit.