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Press Release: Progress Through Innovation Conference 2008

MIT Legatum Center hosts inaugural conference, Progress Through Innovation

Jack Hennessy takes time to answer questions from Legatum Fellow, Robin Bartling. Photo from left to right: Jack Hennessy, Michael Maltese, Robin Bartling and Iqbal Quadir (sitting).

Jack Hennessy takes time to answer questions from Legatum Fellow, Robin Bartling. Photo from left to right: Jack Hennessy, Michael Maltese, Robin Bartling and Iqbal Quadir (sitting).

Founder and Director of the Legatum Center, Iqbal Quadir welcomes Jack Hennessy as the inaugural lecturer.

Founder and Director of the Legatum Center, Iqbal Quadir welcomes Jack Hennessy as the inaugural lecturer.

Iqbal Quadir, Jack Hennessy and Michael Maltese have a moment to talk before the lecture begins.

Iqbal Quadir, Jack Hennessy and Michael Maltese have a moment to talk before the lecture begins.

Legatum Fellows and other participants discuss Hennessy's ideas after the lecture.

Legatum Fellows and other participants discuss Hennessy's ideas after the lecture.

$50 million MIT Biz Innovation Center Opens To Africans

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October 2008

Psychiatrist and Health Economics specialist Dr. Oladapo Tomori of Nigeria and Environmental Civil Engineer, Jean-Pierre Mshimyimana of Rwanda are among the first class of 12 Legatum Fellows admitted to the prestigious Center for Development and Entrepreneurship hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge USA. They have since commenced their studies.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Technologies, News

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