Amir Alexander Hasson is a

social entrepreneur Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of o ...

and the founder of United Villages, an organization specializing in the deployment and usage of wireless networks, including cell phone networks, to rural areas of India through local shop owners. These networks have been used to provide supply management and general e-commerce to areas previously isolated. He was honored with the MIT Technology Review's TR35 award in 2010. In 1998 Hasson graduated with honors from the College of Social Studies at

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...

and in 2002 received his master's degree from the

Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, a ...

at MIT. "During his studies at MIT, Amir co-conceived and patented DakNet, a novel low-cost wireless networking technology for rural connectivity."First Movers Fellowship Program, Amir Alexander Hasson
, Aspen Institute. Retrieved 26 October 2012.

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amirhasson.com
— Hasson's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasson, Amir Alexander Living people MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Wesleyan University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Social entrepreneurs