Helping Orphans with Technology

Helping Orphans with Technology

I have been talking with those I know that will be attending the CAFO Summit 2014 and have an interest in how to leverage technology to assist orphan serving organizations build capacity and sustainability. After sending an invite to Greg Buzek at Retail Orphan Initiative (ROI) he let me know that he has 4-6 high level IT industry executive coming to this year’s conference. They include a senior analyst for Gartner and a director from Intel. We have setup one meeting for Thurs, May 1st at 1:15. The actual location is still being determined. For now, the tentative agenda for this meeting is to listen and learn what orphan care providers indicate are there greatest needs and to talk through how technology could assist. The overall goal is to learn and put together a group of people that can move the best ideas forward as is appropriate. I also sent an invite to Jean Gerran from Each, Inc. She has about 10 people she would like to invite that share this same passion. I have about 10 folks I would like to invite, so we are hoping for a couple of meetings from 1-2 hours where at least 10 folks could gather where the majority would be directly involved in orphan care and the balance those professionals that could capture needs and advance solutions that would leverage various technology resources to assist these organizations. Clearly, we are still working through the details, but we are all excited at the group God is pulling together this year and we look forward to seeing what He will do to advance care for the fatherless around the world.