Eric Woods is the CEO and founder of Switchboard, which uses mobile phones to create nationwide networks of health workers in developing countries. “Health workers across Africa are practicing alone and in the dark, but they don’t have to be.”
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Nithya Ramanathan: Nexleaf Analytics
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Nathan Eagle: Global mobile workforce
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Patrick Meier & Josh Nesbit: The Haiti 4636 story
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