Kentaro Toyama

Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of “Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology.” He conducts research on digital technology’s impact on society. Kentaro previously taught at Ashesi University in Ghana and co-founded Microsoft Research India, where he did research on the application of information and communication technology to international development.