Ken Banks
• United Kingdom
• information technology and services
Current:
Visiting Fellow, Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University, California
Founder, kiwanja.net
Ken Banks
Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Current:
- Visiting Researcher at Stanford University
- Visiting Fellow at Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University, California <
People Network: 103
Industry: Information Technology and Services
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Ken Banks’s Summary
Ken is a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow specialising in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He combines many years experience living and working across Africa with 22 years in IT, and a degree in Social Anthropology. His vision is to empower others to create social change, and he does this by providing tools to mostly grassroots organisations who seek to better use technology in their work. He recently hit headline news on the BBC when his text messaging application – FrontlineSMS (which is provided free to NGOs) – was used to help monitor the Nigerian Presidential elections. Ken has recently been interviewed by Pambazuka News, the BBC World Service, Nokia, Mongabay.com, White African and the Sussex University Alumni magazine. He has recently been awarded a MacArthur Foundation grant to continue his work, and was shortlisted for a mobile industry prize. Full details on Ken, and his work, are available on www.kiwanja.net
Visiting Researcher
Stanford University
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
Ken Banks’s Contact Settings
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- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
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Additional Information
Ken Banks’s Websites:
- My Website