John Davies of Intel talks of the four pillars of development intervention at Baramati Conference

John Davies, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group and General Manager of the World Ahead Program, Intel Corporation, spoke passionately at the 8th Baramati Conference. Showing two video films, one of the Baramati school children learning computers, and another of the World Ahead programme across developing countries.

He mentioned about the Telecentre Project at Vietnam's Lao Cai where wimax connectivity has enabled the communities to access education, health care, livelihoods opportunities.

Emphasising the four development focus areas of the Intel's World Ahead Programme, being Accessibility, Connectivity, Education, and Content. The initiatives had inspired and improved the opportunities of the people who benefited from the programme, and thinking of an entrepreneural model to combine free services with paid for services, it was possible to make impactful interventions.

Calling for a need to do a lot more, John congratulated the work done by Baramati's VIIT, and other partners around the world.