Digital Green: A Rural Video-Based Social Network for Farmer Training (Innovations Case Narrative: Digital Green)

Kerry Harwin is a New Delhi-based development consultant and journalist. His professional background includes agricultural, energy, environmental policymaking in the U.S. Senate, energy and climate policy advocacy with the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, and monitoring and evaluating with Digital Green. His articles have appeared in publications including Foreign Policy, GQ, Times of India, The Hindu, and several Indian periodicals.

Rikin Gandhi is CEO of Digital Green. Rikin is a licensed private pilot, and he holds patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop at Oracle. Born and raised in the U.S., Rikin ventured to rural India to start up a social enterprise to develop biofuels. He then joined Microsoft Research in Bangalore as a researcher on the Technology for Emerging Markets team that incubated Digital Green, a not-for-profit organization supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK's Department for International Development, USAID, Google, and others.