Osama Manzar
Digital Empowerment Foundation Founding Member,
India
Osama Manzar works towards Eradicating Information Poverty in India through Digital Interventions. Enabling people @ the edge of information and empowering unserved communities with access to information using Internet, Broadband and Wireless access through the use of open spectrum. Osama has written several books and writes regularly for Mint at http://livemint.com and sits at various committees at Ministry of Comm & IT and also Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. He is also chair of Manthan Award and curator of mBillionth Award, beside being founder and director of Digital Empowerment Foundation. An inspiring speaker, has travelled few thousands villages and about 40 countries.