InfoCompanions » transformational http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The power to connect the world http://www.infocompanions.com/the-power-to-connect-the-world/ http://www.infocompanions.com/the-power-to-connect-the-world/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=90 talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the . Ruiz is the CEO of , and through ’s 50×15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50 percent of the world to the by 2015. Sharing his own extraordinary life story, Ruiz makes the case that access to education is life-changing.

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About Hector Ruiz:
Hector Ruiz is chairman and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Born in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Dr. Ruiz is passionate about the role of technology in education and empowering the underprivileged. At the 2004 in Davos, he announced AMD’s 50×15 Initiative, a commitment to provide 50 percent of the world’s population with basic Internet access by the year 2015.

Ruiz contends that his company’s 50×15 initiative is “not only possible; it is perhaps the most important event we will experience in our lifetime.”

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