BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Technologies for the basic needs of the most vulnerable communitie
 s
DTSTART:20140624T170000
DTEND:20140624T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T144147Z
UID:6638ac8513efd62a8d337923727e70d08ff29e7fa069c669e29654a6
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Denis von der Weid \, Founder and Director of Antenna Tech
 nologies\nBio: A doctor in law from the University of Fribourg\, and gradu
 ate of INSEAD\, the international business school based in Fontainebleau\,
  Denis von der Weid left Switzerland for Colombia to focus on the issues o
 f North-South and hunger. Upon his return to Fribourg\, he taught developm
 ent economics and set up a organisation in the same field\, and was called
  upon to teach in Fontainebleau. Several years ensued in the management of
  Sandoz\, before returning to the field\, in India. In 1984\, he set up An
 tenna\, as an association\, as a network of lawyers – and as a supplier 
 of clandestine radio transmitters to assist human rights activists in a nu
 mber of countries. By 1989\, the organisation had metamorphosed into Anten
 na Technologies to build up the role of scientific research in the struggl
 e against extreme poverty.\nLiving at the Base of the Pyramid\, the very p
 oor survive without access to safe drinking water\, nor to a varied diet\,
  a reliable power grid or modern medicines. They can change that\, they ca
 n make the difference to their own lives if we share with them with the fr
 uits of our research. Research in the South\, for the South and with the S
 outh. Research on disease\, on access to water\, and on poverty and hunger
 . Today\, too little science is applied to development goals. The talk wil
 l be given by the founder and director\, Dr. Denis von der Weid\, of Anten
 na Technologies\, a Swiss registered charitable foundation\, working on re
 search and dissemination of technologies which are appropriate to the basi
 c needs of the most vulnerable communities. His group enable the poorest t
 o access simple\, low-cost innovations for improving their quality of life
 \, involving communities in their health care.\nPlease fill in the doodle 
 to facilitate our arrangements  here
LOCATION:CM 1 221 EPFL http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_y=5864169.706
 23&recenter_x=731111.80367&layerNodes=fonds\,batiments\,labels\,informatio
 n\,parkings_publics\,arrets_metro\,transports_publics&floor=1&q=CM_1%20221
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR