---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:40:39 +0000 From: Julia Reynolds <jreyn@MIT.EDU> To: "ict4dev@csail.mit.edu" <ict4dev@csail.mit.edu> Subject: [Ict4dev] Foster Tech Entrepreneurship in Emerging Nations this Summer! Message-ID: <10B7991E726BF3498EB18CA957C363848C760D@OC11EXPO33.exchange.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" * Travel this summer to incubate mobile technology start-ups in emerging regions!* * Share your passion for technology entrepreneurship and turn it into action!* * Develop networks, found start-ups, learn and teach real world mobile platforms, while interacting with intelligent eager students!* MIT AITI is seeking passionate and driven MIT students to fill the role of lecturer and mentor for our mobile technologies incubator courses. MIT AITI pays all travel and housing expenses and provides a generous stipend ($1500-$5000 depending on experience). This year we are organizing courses in India, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Rwanda, and the Philippines over June/July 2012. All students are welcome to apply (ugrads, grads, or Sloan MBAs). We are seeking both technical and entrepreneurship instructors/mentors. No prior entrepreneurship or mobile development experience necessary. **DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, December 9, 2012 @ 11:59pm** To apply visit: http://aiti.mit.edu/application/ *Info session: Thursday, November 15, 2012 @ 5-7pm, 5-134* MIT's Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (MIT AITI, http://aiti.mit.edu) is a multidisciplinary group which promotes technology entrepreneurship in emerging regions. With support from Google, MIT AITI partners with universities to offer mobile and Internet technology-intense incubator courses. These courses are modeled on courses at MIT Sloan and MIT's Course 6 (Comp. Sci & EE). We offer lessons of real-world, actionable technology and entrepreneurship experience for the techpreneurs selected from a wide and competitive pool of applicants; the goal is for them to found sustainable technology start-ups. To aid our students, MIT AITI builds and maintains networks of mobile operator contacts, local investors, mentors, entrepreneurs, and developers centered on each program location. In the last 2 years, AITI programs have produced technology start-ups in Kenya, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. Julia Reynolds AITI Program Manager aiti.mit.edu 617.324.4285 http://web.mit.edu/misti/africa/<http://mit.edu/misti/>