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Marc van den Homberg is <strong>the</strong> co-founder and leader of <strong>the</strong><br />
ICT4D market team at TNO. Marc initiates and sets up<br />
projects in two domains: ICT in post-conflict reconstruction<br />
and disaster recovery, and inclusive innovation using ICT.<br />
In both domains Marc aims at market- and communitybased<br />
pro-poor innovations to reach social (poverty<br />
reduction) and economic impact (enhanced<br />
entrepreneurship). Marc presents regularly for example on<br />
inclusive innovation using ICT in Vietnam, innovative<br />
business models for mobile services addressing <strong>the</strong> BoP or voice-based<br />
community-centric mobile services for social development.<br />
In relation to his duties at TNO, Marc is a reserve officer of <strong>the</strong> Integrated<br />
Development of Entrepreneurial Activities network in <strong>the</strong> civil-military battalion<br />
that executes economic reconstruction tasks in fragile states, for example by <strong>the</strong><br />
UN/ILO Start and Improve Your Business program. Here his focus is on how<br />
entrepreneurship in (post)-conflict areas can be stimulated in close cooperation<br />
with NGOs and IOs.<br />
Marc holds an MBA degree from Rotterdam School of Management (where he<br />
wrote his <strong>the</strong>sis on <strong>the</strong> fuzzy front end of new product development and<br />
commercialization processes) and a Ph.D. in physics from Delft University of<br />
<strong>Technology</strong>.<br />
2012 GHTC Page 20
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