21st Century Development: Leveraging Data, Technology, and Innovation

Featuring:

Ann Mei Chang
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director, U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID

Followed by a Panel Discussion Including:

Dr. John Boright
Executive Director of International Affairs, U.S. National Academies

Sonal Shah
Professor of Practice and Founding Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation, Georgetown University

Luis Crouch
Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, International Development Group
RTI International

Moderated by:

Daniel F. Runde
William A Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis
Director, Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS

Panel discussion to follow; participants to be announced.

New approaches to international development that leverage open innovation, data and iteration, and science and technology are transforming societies around the world. By combining these tools with a focus on scale and sustainability there is an opportunity to rethink traditional development practices and build a new development model for the 21st Century.

Please join us at CSIS for an armchair conversation with Ann Mei Chang, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID, followed by an expert panel discussion that will explore how data, technology, and innovation can be operationalized to improve development outcomes around the world.

Please RSVP to ppd@csis.org at your earliest convenience.

This event is made possible by general support to the Project on Prosperity and Development

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