Date: Thursday 02/13/2007
Time: 3:30pm-5pm
Location: Cordura 100

Speaker Bio:
Darian Hickman, the founder of VillagetheGame.com, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 with a BS in Computer Science. After a series of boring high-paying defense-contracting jobs and some volunteer work, Darian has finally started on a project he can call a life mission. This project is Village the Game.

Game Summary
Village is a multiplayer online real-time strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of the third world.

Game Mission
The mission of Village is to let players practice building sustainable villages for developing nations using proven technologies and proven business models.

Ken Banks speaking at Tech Tuesday in San Francisco on March 13th
Ken Banks and Darian Hickman (”Village Game”) have been invited to talk at Tech Tuesday in San Francisco on Tuesday 13th March.

The second Tuesday of each month, social change-makers and web innovators get together to network, socialize and share ideas at Net Tuesday, an event produced by NetSquared, http://www.netsquared.org, a project of TechSoup, http://www.techsoup.org. Read the rest of this entry »