Dr Solomon, University of California, Berkeley writes:
Dear Indian Students,
It was fun working with you earlier this year. Here is another challenge for this summer with real seriousness surrounding Prototying a Smart Village in India. This was a personal request from the Hon. Chief Minister of Andhra and will provide you with much visiablity of your hard work. We have over 12 firms partnering with us to make this project a success they include: Trianz, Google, IBM, Cisco, Tyco, Paradigm Mtuity, Qualcomm, Sahaj, EVx, Ericsson, Tech Mahindra, Potential.com
Please go through the attached summary and email Mr. David Maracine in case you are interested, dmaracine@university.edu. Also copy Manav Subodh at UC Berkeley who is the Project Director administering this challenge, manav.subodh@berkeley.edu. Dr. Valli is the Director of the Open Innovation Center at Andhra Univesity will be our host once again, please contact her for logistical questions , smartvillagechallenge@gmail.com as we get closer to the June 20, 2016, the date of your presentations.
Please do not write to me or contact me as I will be travelling in the summer and will not be in a position to respond to your emails.
Letter of Invitation from UC Berkeley – Smart Village Challenge to Deans (1)
Blessings,
Solomon Darwin
Executive Director
Center for Corporate Innovation
UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Office 510-643-4133 Cell 510-316-8286