Joy Tang
Type of Fellow: Change Fellow
Description: Joy Tang is dedicated to the unity and transformation of the global village. An active participant to build sustainable model for global growth, she creates framework and strategies to involve the global resources to form 'dignified digital communities' - a community empowered by a platform where knowledge could be shared to uphold and reflect the highest version of each individual's growth via ICT (Information Communication Technology).
She is a global community builder: connecting initiatives in the areas of agricultural development, telecommunication reform, healthcare innovation and solutions for AIDS, human capacity building, new business creation via eCommerce and ecoTourism, rural village economy revitalization, and Youth for ICT development. Her work is extended across the continents from Africa to Asia. Her digital development effort also reached out to China, India, Russia and Latin/South America.
Coming from a diverse cultural background, she combines her knowledge and experiences in both private and not-for-profit sectors to serve humanity and to build community prosperity. She has held positions in the areas of Government Alliances, Emerging Market Development, Sales Development, Executive Business Briefing and Marketing in Cisco Systems. She led the design of the AIDS Initiative with an angle of using IT as the baseline to build a holistic approach (Word document outining this approach) to strengthen the socio-economic development from the bottom up level. Her recent role as a Cisco Fellow for international community services further strengthened her knowledge on low-income housing development in the United States, ICT development in the ITU's Least Developed Countries Initiative, micro financing, social network tools building, VSAT, computing recycling, and global trend of knowledge sharing.
She is a member of Internet Society and is an active participant in global forums such as ICT development for developing countries and World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Women Caucus. She holds a BA in Political Science and English Literature and a MA in International Marketing Communication.