Kevin, an MBA student at Columbia Business School, worked for the Earth Institute's Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Bonsaaso, Ghana to develop sustainable business models that could leverage a 3G network. He advised entrepreneurs managing 3G kiosks and supported community efforts to deliver health and education services over the network.

About Me: I'm a 28-year-old MBA student at Columbia Business School in New York City, concentrating in Finance and International Business. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in from 2003 to 2005 giving HIV/AIDS education in the Tororo District in eastern Uganda. I'm interested in returning to a country in Africa to work in diplomacy or the private sector. While in the Peace Corps, I wrote and published a book in Dhopadhola, a language spoken by the Jopadhola in Uganda. The fifth book ever in the language and the first to address reproductive health, I sold it as a textbook to schools and local healthworkers as a teaching aid for HIV/AIDS prevention. Running this project as a business instead of a charity effort convinced me that entrepreneurship has been an underutilized tool in development.

Cool stuff I'm doing now: I'm working on a business plan with a Sri Lanka-based NGO working in Kumasi, Ghana on an innovative way to simultaneously raise fish for food while treating waste water. Writing a plan to finance and run a venture in an urban area is new ground for me to cover since I've previously worked exclusively in rural settings. This has also been a great opportunity of what it takes to navigate the legal framework of setting up a registered business in Ghana.

What I did last summer: I worked with the Millenium Villages committee on Information Technology to set up nine computer labs in Bonsaaso, Ghana.