Matt Berg is a technology practitioner with over 10 years experience living and working in Africa. Matt currently serves as the ICT Coordinator for the Millennium Villages Project based out of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is responsible for overseeing the design and implementation of ICT activities across the fourteen Millennium Villages sites in Africa.

Prior to joining MVP, Matthew was the Director of the Geekcorps’ Mali Program, a USAID funded project aimed at improving access to information to rural areas of Mali. With his local Malian staff and international volunteers, Matt oversaw programs that involved bringing innovative ICT services to rural villages, via the Last Mile Initiative, supporting community radio stations and developing innovative appropriate technologies ranging from low cost wifi networking systems to an offline version of Wikipedia. Matt also served as a Geekcorps’ Volunteer in Senegal after getting his MBA from Thunderbird.

A recovering web developer, Matt is actively engaged in the development of RapidSMS platform, which MVP is currently piloting to monitor for malnutrition and malaria in children in Kenya.