Michael Ginguld. Founder, Director - Strategy and Operations, Rural Broad Band Pvt. Ltd.Co-Founder, CEO, AirJaldi Research and Innovation. Michael was born and raised in Kibbutz Kissufim in Israel. He has more than 20 years of experience working in ICT, community and rural development projects in India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, and Israel. Michael worked in the non-profit and for- profit sectors with start-up grassroots organizations, advocacy groups, large international NGOs and commercial enterprises working in developing countries. Michael worked and lived in Dharamsala between 1998 and 2002 and returned to India in the beginning of 2007 to join a rural connectivity initiative that eventually led to the creation of AirJaldi Research and Innovation, a non-profit organization dedicated to R&D and capacity building work in the field of Wireless networks in 2007, and of RBB, a for-profit working on the design, deployment and management of rural broad band networks in rural areas, in 2009. Michael holds a B.Sc. in Ag. Economics from the Hebrew University., Jerusalem, Israel, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, the Netherlands, and an MA in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Michael is based in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He can be reached at Michael@airjaldi.net
Emmanuel Togo. Emmanuel is from Ghana, and earned his first degree in Computer Science and Physics from University of Ghana in 1999. He currently works as the Head of the Networking Unit of the University of Ghana's Computing Systems (UGCS). He is also a founding member of the Ghanaian Academic and Research Network's (GARNET) technical team working to build the national research and education network in Ghana. Emmanuel's current focus is designing and deploying an affordable, large-scale campus-wide WiFi network in Ghana. Emmanuel can be reached at ematogo@ug.edu.gh
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