Brainpower is our most valuable commodity today. Regions that value learning from each other will move quickly. By asking what we can do together, or what I-Open refers to as "strategic doing", we can begin to build entrepreneurial networks, important infrastructure to accelerate open innovation.

Join us this week to learn, connect and build your entrepreneurial opportunity with Africa. Expand your networks and welcome visiting African scholar and celebrated leader Kudzai Shava, Director of the Disability Resource Center at Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe. A prolific writer, Mr. Shava will share his research on education, disability issues, and infant development.

Working since 2002 to teach blind youngsters to be peer educators about HIV/AIDS, Kudzai Shava develops sustainable income-generating projects for the blind so they can continue their education and be mainstreamed into society. What best practices can we share to benefit Cleveland and African communities?

Kudzai Shava received the 2004 Claude Ake Award by the Africa America Institute. As one of eight scholars from all over Africa to win this award, Mr. Shava subsequently traveled to the United States, where he was a guest at UCLA, presented at the Fulbright Academy in Cleveland, the Cleveland Sight Center, and Hiram College. In 2004, his proposal presentation received the annual conference award of the African Studies Association in New Orleans.

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