Matt Berg

Matt Berg
Berg at the 2010 Time 100 Gala.

Matt Berg is the director of ICT for the Millennium Villages Project at the Columbia University’s Earth Institute and member of its Department of Mechanical Engineering research group in Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the ICT Director of the Millennium Villages Project at Columbia and the technology director for ChildCount+. Matt Berg is one of Time 100 Most Influential People of the World.[1]

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Biography and Work

Berg was born in 1977 in a small village of Cameroon and grew up in Senegal. He graduated with honors from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 2000. He has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Berg is responsible for the development of new mobile phone platform ChildCount+ created under the framework of RapidSMS. The project helps to reduce preventable diseases in the poorest villages of Africa through continuous monitoring, and it is grounded in a network of community health workers that partner to improve health and nutrition in impoverished areas.

As the ICT Director for the Millennium Villages Project at Columbia, Berg oversees the design and implementation of ICT activities in Millennium Village Project sites. He is now scaling up ChildCount+ to monitor over 100,000 pregnant mothers and children under five. Prior to joining ChildCount+, Berg helped to build the Rural Technology Lab in Mali that provides programming training to local students.

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