About ICTDev.org

ICTDev.org supports people worldwide who use Information and Communication Technologies to achieve solidarity and international development goals. ICTDev.org provides a toolset of information, community news and networks, largely through the ICTDev Pulse, a simple yet extensive stream of current knowledge from various ICT for Development sources.

ICT4Dev.org recognizes that the best ICT4D projects are not ICT projects, but health projects using mobile phones, education projects using PDAs, and agriculture projects using the web. ICTDev.org recognizes that ICT is not a goal in and of itself, but a powerful toolset to backstop critical global and local issues.

About Jon

ICTDev is a project of Jon Camfield (http://JonCamfield.com , Jon@PathBreaking.net). Jon currently serves as the Director for Information and Communication Technologies at Youth Service America, where he directs the social media, web and mobile outreach strategies for YSA's global grants programs and annual Global Youth Service Day, the largest volunteer event in the world.

Prior to coming to DC, Jon served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica as an IT Advisor for the Media Services Unit of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture. At the Ministry, he trained teachers, promoted the use of ICTs both in and out of the classroom, and worked with the USAID New Horizons program on their ICT4Education projects. Jon also encouraged open source software solutions, and to that end worked with the Jamaica Linux Users Group.

In 2007 Jon received his Masters of Arts in International Science and Technology Policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. His research focused on the role of ICTs in international solidarity and development. In 1999 he received his Bachelors of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in their Plan II multidisciplinary honors program.