Welcome to CraigWarrenSmith.com
Formerly a professor at Harvard University Kennedy
School of Government, Craig Warren Smith, PhD, is
now Senior Advisor to the University of Washington
Human Interface Technology Laboratory. Outside of
academia, he has advised multinational corporations
(Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Oracle), philanthropic
institutions (Ford, Rockefeller and Kellogg Foundations),
ministers of emerging markets (India, Indonesia, Thailand),
and intergovernmental institutions (UN, UNESCO, World
Bank, OECD), and leading universities (Harvard, MIT.)
His career-long
focus has been to explore the themes of philanthropy,
corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship and
public/private partnership acting as activist, speaker,
writer, strategy advisor, businessman and publisher.
Since the mid-90s his core theme has been technology.
He was a founder and became leader of the global movement
to close the "digital divide." Today he
formulates strategies for enhancing human impacts
of the mobile revolution in both advanced countries
and emerging markets. In 2007, he founded the Investor
Group Against Digital Divide.
For
25 years he has also been also a Buddhist instructor
and teacher of a method of mind/body training derived
from Tibetan monastic dance called Mudra Training,
which he taught at Julliard School in New York Ciry
in 2007.