Key takeaways 

1. Focus more on people centricity – how do our actions affect outcomes for people?

2. We need to give the people at the grassroots, the means to make their own choices

3. There is power in the private sector – we can do more to enable it

Next Steps

• IEEE-World Bank meeting April 13 (first of 10 meetings planned through 2020)

• Secretary Kerry convening Finance Ministers Meeting April 14

• Reconvene Tech Community in May 2016 – People Centered Internet follow through

3 Recommendations for IEEE-World Bank April 13 Workshop

How can we set up a roadmap…

1. For a holistic approach to invest in improving people’s lives involving the Internet?

2. To ensure Universal Access?

3. To empower people to solve on a small scale, and network to spread for global impact?

Participants

• Nnamdi Abraham-Igwe – Emerging Markets Access Lead, Google
• Manu Bhardwaj – Special Advisor, Internet and Telecom, US State Dept.
• GaryFowlie – Chief, Media Liaison at United Nations, ITU
• Paul  Garnett – Director, Affordable Access Initiatives, Microsoft
• Steve Huter - Executive Director, Network  Startup Resource Center
• Waguih Ishak – Vice President, Corning Labs
• Mary Lou Jepsen – Host with John Ryan, on behalf of Wire the World
• Yael Maguire – Team member, Internet.org
• Monique Morrow – CTO-Evangelist, New Frontiers Development & Engineering, Cisco
• Ayman Naguib – Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm
• Brooke Partridge – CEO Vital Wave Consulting, Vital Wave
• Kannan Pashupathy – Director, Research, Google
• Beth Robertson – Emerging Market Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, Endeavor
• Subhas Subramanyan – Special Assistant, OSTP, White House
• Chris Weasler – Director of Global Connectivity, Internet.org, Facebook
• Scott Wu – Investment Partner, Omidyar Network
• Greg Wyler – Founder, OneWeb
• Breanna Zwart – Counsel, Google
• Steve Denning – Author, Independent Management Consulting Professional - remote participant
• Kristin Peterson – Chair & Co-founder, EveryLayer - remote participant