Tech Forum Central Asia Spotlights Innovation for Social Good

Posted by Joseph Witters / June 23, 2012

A participant poses for a photograph at the 2012 Tech Forum Central Asia in Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 16, 2012. [Photograph Courtesy of Tech Forum Central Asia/ Used by Permission]

Eight months of planning meetings and conference calls between U.S. Consulate Almaty and Washington D.C. led to three days of intense hands-on training and interactive discussion between technology experts, young entrepreneurs, and civil society representatives from eight South and Central Asian countries June 14-16 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Tech Forum Central Asia (TFCA) was not your typical conference where participants sat and listened to speakers. Rather, it was a high-tech, interactive social entrepreneurship event focused on youth empowerment.

If I could sum up my experience in one word it would be "inspired." I was inspired by the technologists who led training sessions. Hanny Kusumawati, from Indonesia, shared her experiences with "crowdfunding." She founded Coin A Chance, which makes use of extra change people in Indonesia often discard and collects it to help… more »

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