The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy

Mr. Ramsey's talk "Business and Technology: a 21st Century Approach to the Fight Against Poverty" was held on April 8th, 2009 at the National Press Club. Video of the speech is now available here. 

Rey Ramsey is chief executive officer of One Economy Corporation. Co-founded by Mr. Ramsey in 2000, One Economy Corporation leverages the power of technology and information to connect low-income people to the economic mainstream by bringing broadband into their homes, producing public-purpose media, and training and employing youth to enhance communities' technological capacity. Learn more at www.one-economy.com.

  Mr. Ramsey led the organization’s growth from four employees working in a basement to a global organization that has taken root on four continents. Since 2000, One Economy has helped bring broadband access into the homes of over 300,000 low-income Americans. More than 15 million people have visited One Economy’s multilingual web properties and hundreds of youth have delivered nearly 50,000 hours of service to their communities.