Ethan Zuckerman: Love and Serendipity

The activist, academic and co-founder of Global Voices shares a story about building cultural bridges, xenophilia and a little video game called War of Warcraft.

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Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is an activist, academic and engineer and xenophile whose work focuses on technology in the developing world. In 2004, he co-founded Global Voices, an award-winning international citizen media network and was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. Zuckerman became a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School in January, 2003 focusing on the impact of technology on the developing world. In 2002 he was given the Technology in Service of Humanity Award by MIT's Technology Review magazine and named to the TR100, TR's list of innovators under the age of 35. Zuckerman also writes prolifically on his My Heart's in Accra blog where he muses on Africa, international development and hacking the media.

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