[Ecommerce] CPTech Brownbag on A2K next Tuesday with famous DC bookseller

[Malini Aisola]

Dear colleagues,

The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is hosting a brown bag lunch
seminar by Bill Kramer: "Knowledge & Economic Development: Perspectives
from a Bookseller Turned NGO Guy=94

Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Time: 12:15 - 2:00pm
Venue: 1621 Connecticut Avenue Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009


William J. Kramer is Deputy Director of the Development Through
Enterprise program, and a Senior Fellow, at World Resources Institute.
He is involved in all aspects of the Institute=92s work on pro-poor
business strategies.

Prior to joining WRI, he founded The Knowledge Initiative, Inc., a
non-profit organization which explored the relationship of new knowledge
creation and economic development. Through the NGO, he did extensive
project field work for three years in South Africa, Cote d=92Ivoire,
Kenya, and Central Europe.

Mr. Kramer=92s work in the non-profit arena follows a 30-year career as an
entrepreneur, principally in the book industry. He owned and managed
Sidney Kramer Books, the world=92s leading bookstore for politics,
economics, and area studies for over 50 years. He established Daedalus
Books, a leading distributor of remainders and sale books. He founded,
and remains president of, Kramerbooks & afterwords, the original
bookstore/caf=E9, in Washington, D.C. His multiple enterprises in
retailing, wholesaling, and publishing have served professionals and
general readers worldwide. He was more recently a principal in several
companies that served colleges and universities with web-based
applications for campuses, including portal development, e-procurement,
digital printing and publishing, and course management tools.

As a consultant on development issues, Mr. Kramer has worked with global
companies, NGOs, and think tanks. He has served on numerous boards for
local, regional, and national organizations. He is the author, with his
wife, of a guidebook to Washington, D.C., published by Random House,
which went through six editions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a
principal author on the forthcoming book, Tomorrow=92s Markets: Poverty
Profit and Unmet Human Needs, to be published in February, 2007 as a
joint publication of World Resources Institute and the International
Finance Corporation. Mr. Kramer served as co-director of the seminal
conference on business engagement in low-income markets, =93Eradicating
Poverty Through Profit: Making Business Work for the Poor,=94 held in San
Francisco in December, 2004.


If you would like to attend this seminar, please RSVP your name, title,
organization and contact information to malini.aisola@cptech.org or 202
332 2670.


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Malini Aisola

malini.aisola@cptech.org

www.cptech.org


Consumer Project on Technology

1621 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20009 USA

Tel.: +1.202.332.2670 Fax: +1.202.332.2673