that’s nice
I had to put a bio in for a grant yesterday that a group in the States is going for. I’m always kind of weirded out by it (my bio/cv) because up until a year ago I thought it was garbage. Since then I’ve realized that what I thought were random events were actually connected and even made sense from a employer point-of-view.
Anyways, this guy said “they are going to _love_ your bio” and it kind of made my day. I think it makes a big difference that “they” is a large ICT-focused NGO. I’m not sure how many other companies would love it.
This really isn’t supposed to sound like bragging. It’s something that I’m pretty nervous about (my CV and my work experience) and I’m still getting used to the idea that 1)it’s not weak and 2) that it’s not just the ISF experience that saves it.
Also - I’m posting it because I don’t have an “about me” section and I don’t really want to make one.
Michael Lenczner has been working in community informatics for the last eight years. This includes separate projects working with seniors, immigrants, and teen-age mothers. He spent 2 years working in health informatics at the Montreal General Hospital in their radiology department. He was partnered on-site for six months with a NGO in Burkina Faso working on training IT staff and users as well as improving their network. He stayed for an extra month to bring together the local university, national dep. of telecommunications, and the main ISP to educate them about WiFi and consult with them regarding a wireless connectivity project linking the 4 hospitals in the capital - Ougadougou.
In the last two years Michael has co-founded IleSansFil - a wireless community group in Montreal which has 7000 users and is growing at the rate of 800 per month. The open-source project they started (WiFiDog) has been picked up by groups world-wide including NYCwireless, LondonWireless, PlaceSite, TorontoWireless and CUWIN. He has spoken at conferences in Vancouver, Banff (the Banff New Media Institute), Toronto, and New York, as well as being invited to conferences in Ottawa and Winnipeg. Additionally he has consulted for private WiFi companies as well as for International Development Research Center (Canada) for their strategy on wireless connectivity in the developing world.
July 15th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
That is impressive! Your bio for bodies in play was much shorter. next time you come to banff you should include this long one.
Is the “personal” section you posted this in about you? why don’t you want an “about me” section?
July 16th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Free Montreal WiFi Google mapped
Michael barked at me that “it’s in WifiDOG CVS now!” the other night and I guess it’s cause I haven’t sparked my aggregator in a week that I missed it but… Here’s a standalone GoogleMap of all Ile Sans Fil…
July 18th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
sorry for not responding. I took a week off my blog.
1) thanks.
2)Yeah, the personal section is either about me or about the issue of public vs. private.
3)I really don’t know why I don’t want an about me section. Something about refusing to provide false (too-easy) contexts. If people don’t know right away that I am male, 27, see the picture, etc then they have to make their own assumptions. I just have a real problem with getting pigeon-holed.