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James Nguo

Title Regional Director
Organization Arid Lands Information Network

James Nguo is regional director for the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN). James is a development communications specialist with a master’s degree in strategic communications from the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

James is also a recognized contributor to various global bodies involved in information and communications technologies, including Global Knowledge Partnership (www.globalknowledge.org/) and the Association for Progressive Communications (www.apc.org), where he was elected an executive board member in 2008. He also contributes to the IKM Emergent (www.ikmemergent.net) and Kenya ICT Network (KICTANet).

In April 2011, the international board of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (www.ashoka.org) selected James as a member of its global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs for leveraging a well-managed and sustainable network of information centers to improve the quality of life of rural small-scale farmers in East Africa.

Posts By James Nguo

 

Tackling the Root Causes of Poverty

Like many others around the world, I have been following the terrible news of the hunger that is now ravaging the Horn of Africa, including parts of Kenya.

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