Josh Nesbit (SD)

Josh Nesbit founded the nonprofit company Medic Mobile, which uses low-cost, mobile technology to create more efficient health care delivery systems in underdeveloped areas of the world. Nesbit also founded Hope Phones, a recycling campaign designed to engage millions of Americans in global health efforts. Nesbit and his team have worked in 16 countries in East and West Africa, South Asia, North America, and South America, using mobile technologies to support a wide range of programs, from infectious disease surveillance and hazardous waste disposal in rural Malawi to emergency response after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. His work has been featured on CNN and the Discovery Channel, as well as in Popular Mechanics, BusinessWeek, The Guardian and The New York Times. He received the Truman Award for Innovation from the Society for International Development and was named by Forbes magazine as one of the world's top 30 social entrepreneurs. A delegate to the 2012 International Achievement Summit, Josh Nesbit described his work in this address to the Academy of Achievement, recorded at the Top of the Hay in Washington D.C.'s Hay-Adams Hotel.