Just Getting Warmed Up!
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Dear Colleague,

 This newsletter is all about what we've been up to this quarter, and it all boils down to acronyms and events. WEF, TED, SXSW oh my! Indulge me...

WEF (World Economic Forum)

50x15 was first announced in 2004 in Davos at the World Economic Forum, and we've been increasingly involved with WEF ever since. For 2007, we had an amazing experience, bringing together our industry partners with key government leaders in a number of dynamic settings. The validations of our methodology and technology portfolio continue to grow in all of these communities, and we're just getting warmed up!

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Dan Shine
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50x15 Partner Program Serves as a Crossroads for Digital Inclusion Initiatives

 by Steve Howard, 50x15 Partner Program Manager

By working with strategic partners throughout the world, the 50x15 Initiative has helped provide Internet access and computing capability to millions of people in high-growth markets since the program’s inception in 2004.
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Inveneo Certified ICT Partner Program Creates Local Expertise and Economic Opportunity

 by Kristin Peterson, Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer, Inveneo

Tim Kreutter is not easily discouraged. During the past 15 years, he has overcome innumerable obstacles to build the Cornerstone Leadership Academy (CLA) in order to give some of Uganda’s poorest children a chance for a brighter future.
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AMD and Architecture for Humanity Announce World's Largest Architecture Prize at TED 2007

 In Monterey, California each year, more than 1,000 thought-leaders from the Technology, Entertainment, and Design industries come together at the TED Conference to learn, dream, and find new ways to improve the world in which we live.
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George Bush Visits Local Projects in Brazil, Underlining the Importance of AMD's 50x15 Partnership

 During their recent five-nation Latin American trip, President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visited Meninos do Morumbi, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) composed of over 4,000 underprivileged children and teenagers in the city of São Paulo.
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High-Growth Markets are Hotbeds of Entrepreneurialism
by Henri Richard, AMD Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

One of the greatest success stories to come out of AMD’s 50x15 Initiative is what we and our industry partners have accomplished in Greater China this year — connecting literally millions of citizens, students, and teachers across the country to the Internet.
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