Congratulations to RapidSMS Child Malnutrition, the winners of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge! Thank you to our winners, finalists, and everyone who submitted and participated in the voting process.

From left to right: Mridul Chowdhury of ClickDiagnostics, Inc., USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, Kirsten Bokenkamp of RapidSMS Child Malnutrition Surveillance, and Erik Hersman of Ushahidi.

The winners have a packed day today! 

9:30– 10:30am: Lex Mundi Foundation

The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation is a charitable foundation affiliated with Lex Mundi, the world's leading Association of independent law firms.

David Roll

Managing Director

11:30 – 12:30 DAI Brownbag Lunch

DAI delivers development. We do it in many of the world's most demanding environments, by integrating a broad range of disciplines. DAI's mission is to make a difference in the world by helping societies and economies become more prosperous, fairer and more just, safer, more stable, more efficient, and better governed.

1:30 – 2:30pm: Ashoka, Innovators for the Public

Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
Joseph Sinatra

Changemakers

3:30 – 4:30pm: a Joint Technoserve and Agora Partnerships Session

TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries.

Bruce McNamer

President and CEO

Agora Partnerships is a non profit, social mission organization dedicated to providing talented entrepreneurs in developing countries with the tools, networks, and financing necessary to launch successful, socially responsible businesses

Ben Powell

Co-founder and Managing Partner