Main Regional Impact
Information and Communication Technologies Consultant with over 10 years of experience developing projects and strategies for the Information Society, Human Development, Education, Government, Open Content and Virtual Communities. Developer of Fellownies.org
Collaborative construction of knowledge, virtual communities of collaborative learning, open source apps, open content, virtual libraries, virtual communities, marine mammals, dogs, sailing, ict strategies, e-government, ict for human development and mobile technologies.
Educar.org is a network of virtual communities, educational portals and cultural content that connects 100,000 teachers, students and people in Latin America every day. On-line, they work together to develop content, activities and solutions to the needs of their local communities and human development issues in the developing world.
Computing and Communication Skills for Street Children in Rio de Janeiro. Street children in Rio de Janeiro struggle in a vicious cycle of poverty and violence. In partnership with local NGO Projeto Uerê, project Vamos Blogar empowers these children with communication and computer skills by creating educational software for authoring multimedia weblogs.
A venture capitalist, Margarita Quihuis's engineering career has ranged from developing high-end aerospace systems to gender-focused design to leading a pioneering women's technology incubator and most recently as a Reuters Fellow.
diasporas, microfinance, access to capital, entrepreneurship, BOP, Prahalad, children, education, product design, cognitive development, expert systems, incubation, gender and women
Remittance-based Self-Sustaining Investment fund for the Mexican Diaspora
Indigo is a radical proposal to develop a micro-private equity fund whose source of capital comes from profits generated by a remittances service business targeted toward the US Mexican diaspora. Inspired by Working Assets, the remittances service provides a sustainable business model that allows the Indigo fund to invest in SMEs and take more risks in this underserved market.
José Arocha is a social, hi-tech entrepreneur from Venezuela and a research fellow of the Reuters Digital Vision program at Stanford University. Raised in a family of entrepreneurs and leaders devoted to public service, José has a deep interest in the use of technology and media to accelerate social and economic progress in Latin America. During the last two years at Stanford University, José has been researching and conceptualizing TAVOS and working on open-source, social media projects to promote health, prosperity and dignity for youth and underserved communities in Latin America and around the world. Between 1996 and 2003, José worked as an international consultant in semantic search, knowledge mining, technological intelligence, e-learning and knowledge-based technology innovation and creativity for leading corporations in Japan, USA and Latin America. José was a Google research fellow at Stanford University in 2004-05 and holds advanced engineering degrees from M.I.T. and Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela.
More about José Arocha at LinkedIn.
Microfranchising, media, communities, microentrepreneurs, collaboration, social business, Latin America and hispanics
360 million citizens in Latin America today live but do not exist. They have no voice and are socially excluded from any opportunity to prosper and live with dignity.
My social venture, TAVOS Media Network, will build a global network of local media and technology-based service microfranchisees so they can give voice and promote the life and prosperity of their own communities. Our network of local media microfranchisees will:
* Facilitate and promote trust, dialogue and collaboration in their communities;
* Make visible the opportunities for the local labor, commerce and services; and
* Help their communities exercise their citizen rights and increase their self-determination and governability.
We are boostrapping by providing consulting and partnering with nonprofits, communities and corporations to build the learnings, assets and networks necessary to materialize our vision. If you want to talk and/or work with us, or would like to partner and invest in us, please contact us by emailing me at jose.arocha [at] tavos [dot] org
