Robert Bortner
ICT for development

Acumen International/Community Empowerment Network

Websites:

• http://www.endruralpoverty.org

Founder, Director and Chief Bottlewasher of NGO that empowers rural communities in developing countries to use information and information technology so they drive their own development.

Rural economic development, how to apply information and ICT to real needs, build and manage virtual teams

Start up capital, board members (also advisory board) and a wide variety of volunteers (especially working group leads). Please see our website http://endruralpoverty.org/get-involved/volunteer/open-volunteer-positions for more details

MA International Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations, Washington DC and Bologna, Italy BA, Chemistry and Math, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Certificate, Chemistry, University of Kent, Canterbury, England

Acumen International - Consulting in ICT for Development since 2001 Community Empowerment Network - Founder and Director since 2004 Microsoft Corporation - variety of poistions for 11 years between 1990 and 2001. Most of the time I focused on sales to mid-sized accounts and building the sales channel to support those activities Carribbean Development Program of the Ecomomic Development Administration of Puerto Rico - Promoted foreign investment in the Caribbean for 3 years, ending 1990. Please see my profile on the CEN website for more details: http://www.dev.communityempowernet.org/cenweb/Bortner.php