Archive for December, 2006

KivaThe president of Kiva, Premal Shah came to talk to the Executive MBA class. Wouldn’t it be great if you could lend 25 dollars to a poor entrepreneur in a developing country on the other side of the world? That’s what I did to a owner of a bicycle shop in Uganda. To do that I went to Kiva.org and used my PayPal account but you can also use any major credit card.

Kiva.mp3 (9.7MB / 21m)

GoogleThe Communications Technology Management program and the Women in Telecom organized a panel about the free wireless Internet in San Francisco. We had representatives from the City of San Francisco, Google and Wireless Silicon Valley give an update on the current status of the project. Find out when will the network be available and the challenges that they are facing.

Google.mp3 (16MB / 34m)