Chris Ategeka
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Chris Ategeka (born July 10, 1984) is a Ugandan-American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is an author and the founder of UCOT, a corporate strategy firm, specializing in unintended consequences of technology, future think and scenario planning.
Early life and education[edit]
A native of Fort Portal, Uganda, Ategeka graduated from Kitante Hill School, located in the country's capital Kampala.
Ategeka, the eldest of five children, was orphaned after losing both parents to HIV/AIDS. He became the head of the household and caretaker to his brothers and sisters at an early age.
His siblings were eventually dispersed to live with different relatives. Ategeka went to live with his uncle, whom he helped by acting as a human scarecrow to chase monkeys away from crops.
In his teens, Ategeka escaped to a non-profit orphanage, YES Uganda, and was able to go to school. While he was there, he was sponsored by an American family who enrolled him in a private high school in Fort Portal, Uganda. Upon graduation, Ategeka moved to Oakland, California United States to live with them and attend Laney Community College. He received a scholarship to University of California, Berkeley, where he acquired a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He also completed an intensive executive program on Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Chris' sponsor family eventually formally adopted him as their son. His TED (conference) talk, "How Adoption Worked for Me", has been widely viewed.[1]
Ategeka and his partner currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
Career[edit]
Chris is the author of "The Unintended Consequences of Technology" [2] which focuses on the solutions we have, the breakthroughs and the restart we need. He also founded and serves as CEO of UCOT, a company with a unique model creating solutions to unintended and willfully ignored consequences of technology.
Before that, he was the founder and board chair at Health Access Corps [3], which focuses on strengthening healthcare systems in Africa using local talent to combat the extreme shortage of healthcare services in underserved regions [4] [5]. He has done this by building bicycle and motorcycle ambulances to facilitate the emergency transport of patients to health care facilities. He also built mobile clinics by refurbishing abandoned school buses converting them into "hospitals on wheels" to allow patients access to healthcare services in underserved areas of Africa.
His work has been profiled by YAHOO,[6] San Francisco Chronicle,[7] Fast Company, TED, NPR, Forbes, BBC, and the United Nations.[8]
Ategeka has received many honors and awards for his work including Forbes' 30under30[9] Social Entrepreneurs who are changing the world, Ashoka Fellow, TED Fellow, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and most recently was honored by Chancellor Carol Christ and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees with a 2021 Mark Bingham Award for excellence in achievement by a young alumnus in the last 10 years [10].
He is an active proponent for STEM education, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Affiliations[edit]
- 2014: United Nations Global Accelerator[11]
- 2015: Muhammad Ali Humanitarian[12]
- 2016: World Economic Forum Young Global Leader[13]
- 2019: XPRIZE Expert Judge[14]
Works and Publications[edit]
- Ategeka, Chris (February 5, 2016). "Achieving Balance in Your Career and in Life: 4 Pillars to Cultivate". HuffPost.
- Ategeka, Chris; Gebru, Timnit; Goldberg, Ken (September 26, 2018). "Will AI Diversify Human Thinking or Replace It". TechCrunch.
- Ategeka, Chris; Eric, Berlow; David, Shenk (September 1, 2020). "The other (bigger) privacy problem". The Boston Globe.
Bibliography[edit]
- The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need (Wiley 2021, ISBN 978-1119817598 Search this book on
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References[edit]
- ↑ "How Adoption Worked for Me". TED (conference).
- ↑ Ategeka, Chris (2021). The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need. John Wiley. ISBN 978-1119817598. Search this book on
- ↑ "Brief but Spectacular". PBS Interview. 3 August 2017.
- ↑ "His Parents' Death Gave Him A Mission: Stop The Medical Brain Drain". NPR.
- ↑ "From Ugandan Orphan to Non-Profit Entrepreneur". KQED.
- ↑ "From Homeless Orphan in Uganda to Forbes 30 under 30: The story of Chris Ategeka and his work". Smallbusiness.yahoo.com. 6 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- ↑ Asimov, Nanette (2013-10-21). "Luck, smarts lead from Uganda to UC Berkeley". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- ↑ "Global Accelerator: Interview with Christopher Ategeka". YouTube. 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
- ↑ "Forbes 30 under 30". Forbes.
- ↑ "Berkeley Achievement Awards". Berkeley.
- ↑ "Global Accelerator: Interview with Christopher Ategeka". YouTube. 2014-07-22.
- ↑ "Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Showcases International Humanitarians and Ali's Impact on Global Human Rights". GlobeNewsWire. 20 September 2015.
- ↑ "Meet the 2016 Class of Young Global Leaders". World Economic Forum.
- ↑ "Expert Mentor". XPRIZE.
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