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Michael Chertok
Field Fellow

RETOOL: Re-engineering Employment Training through Outsourcing Opportunities in LDCs

Developing countries face massive youth unemployment. In order to grow and participate in the global economy, they require a workforce with applied technology skills. RETOOL encompasses three strategic initiatives to develop scalable and replicable employment and skill building opportunities for youth in less developed countries.

Bio

Michael Chertok is Chairman of Digital Divide Data, a social enterprise employing 200 disadvantaged young people in Cambodia and Laos in an IT services business. Michael was previously Managing Director of Global Catalyst Foundation and also helped start Schools Online, a nonprofit that connected 5,000 schools worldwide to the Internet. He holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Stanford.

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