Note: This is an event open to all.

Come learn about how technology driven social entrepreneurship is changing the world – from the experts at SF State

The STEPS Initiative presents

A special panel on

Technology Based Social Ventures: Lessons from the field

Featuring

Marc Krizack

Executive Director, Whirlwind Wheelchair

Whirlwind Wheelchair is an organization that works to make it possible for every person in the developing world who needs a wheelchair to obtain one that will lead to maximum personal independence and integration into society. Marc Krizack is a social entrepreneur, lawyer and activist for disability rights.

Prof. Gary Selnow

Director, WiRED International

Professor of Communications, SFSU

WiRED International is a non-profit organization that has become a leader in providing education and information to medical schools and to grassroots populations in developing countries.  Prof. Gary Selnow, founding director of WiRED international, received the 2004 President’s Medal at SFSU.

Prof. Sameer Verma

Bay Area Coordinator, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Associate Professor of Information Systems, SFSU

OLPC is an organization dedicated to creating educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop and content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 4th at 7p.m

Location: SCI 210 (Science Building on SFSU campus)

STEPS (Social and Technology Entrepreneurship at SF State) is a new multidisciplinary initiative aimed at fostering scholarship, creative and outreach activity related to understanding the simultaneous creation of social and economic value within our organizations and institutions. For more information about its mission and activities, or to get involved, contact Prof. Sanjay Jain at sanjay@sfsu.edu or Prof. Geoff Desa at gdesa@sfsu.edu