Toshi Nakamura, Co-Founder and CEO, Kopernik to give free lecture at TUJ
Kopernik is a non-profit organization aiming to accelerate poverty reduction by connecting simple, life-changing technology with the people who need it the most.
Headquartered in Indonesia, Kopernik serves to accelerate poverty reduction by engaging citizens in an online marketplace where technology producers post their innovative technology products, local organizations in developing countries create projects to use these technology products, and individuals can fund specific projects.
Kopernik’s Co-founder and CEO Toshi Nakamura, an innovator in the social enterprise field, will explain this multi-stakeholder social business model and detail the successes and contributions made so far by Kopernik in reducing poverty and reaching more than 140,000 people in 14 countries through over 80 projects to date.
Date: Monday December 2nd, 2013 7:00pm-9:00pm
Place: Azabu Hall 212/213, Temple University Japan, Azabu Jyuban
Map: https://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html
Admission is free. Please bring your own bento. Tea and soft drinks provided.
Registration required: Please register by November 28 using the form on the right of this web page.
For problems registering for this event please e-mail hamakawa@gmail.com
Speaker:
Toshihiro Nakamura, Co-Founder and CEO, Kopernik
Toshi co-founded Kopernik in 2010 to connect simple, life-changing technology with people in the last mile. The idea was driven by insights from his extensive career in international development, management consulting and academics. During his ten years with the United Nations (UN) in East Timor, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, the United States and Switzerland, Toshi dealt with governance reform, peace building processes and post-disaster reconstruction. Toshi initiated Sierra Leone's Open Government Initiative to increase the accountability of government leadership, and consequently made transparency a priority while building Kopernik. Prior to joining the UN, Toshi was a management consultant for McKinsey and Company in Tokyo. He holds an LLB from Kyoto University and MSc Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Toshi is Guest Associate Professor at Osaka S! chool of International Public Po! licy, Osaka University. Toshi was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2012.