Travel to See GlobalWA Members in India!
Photo Credit: Landesa
Seattle International Foundation (SIF) and The Seattle Foundation will host a donor delegation to India on October 9-18 where participants will see first-hand the work of Global Washington members. Seattle-area donors and experts will visit leading Seattle-area institutions such as Landesa, PATH, SightLife, Splash and University of Washington. Delegates will also have opportunities to engage with local business and nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and visit cultural and historical sites. Field site visits and meetings will span a variety of issue areas including health, land rights, leadership development, micro-finance, technology and women’s rights.
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Click here to learn all about this exciting delegation to India: www.seaif.org/2015IndiaDelegation
For more information contact Michele Frix, Director of Programs, at mfrix@seaif.org or 206.547.9335.
On June 24, Global Washington members gathered to meet Kentaro Toyama and discuss his new book, Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. An award-winning computer scientist and co-founder of Microsoft Research India, Toyama spent more than a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health and global poverty before coming to a radical conclusion. “Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can’t deliver,” says Toyama. This conclusion is the crux of his book, in which he argues that technology is not the solution to society’s greatest ills. 
On June 9th, Global Washington hosted a panel discussion on the use of innovative technologies by social entrepreneurs. Panelists included: Ali Arjomand, Director of Analysis and Evaluation at Global Good; Beth Kolko, co-founder and CEO of Shift Labs; and Laura McLaughlin, Director of MSR Global Health. The discussion was moderated by Chris Coward, Principal Research Scientist and Director of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School. Humanosphere sponsored the event.