Biographical Statement

John Dada, Programs Director, Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria. Background in academic research, nursing and rural community development, a trained nurse. Fantsuam Foundation is sharing and building information for rural development, facilitating the achieving of MDGs in rural Nigeria through ICT-enabled community development. He has served as Chair of the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, member of PICTA, membership committee of the Global Knowledge Partnership and Executive Board of the Association for Progressive Communications. Fantsuam Foundation’s efforts has been profiled on CNN’s Global Challenges and BBC World

Vision of their contribution to the GA Strategy Council

Providing a reality check of what ICTs are doing, can do and cannot do, to facilitate grassroots development.