Despite the U.S. State Department essentially saying that the Google chairman’s North Korean jaunt would be a horrible idea of which they want absolutely no part, this morning, Eric Schmidt landed in North Korea with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in tow. More »
The office of Bill Richardson confirmed the former New Mexico governor’s planned trip to North Korea with Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt today via press release. The trip, planned for next week, is being billed as a humanitarian initiative. The duo’s team also includes Google employee Jared Cohen, the director of the software giant’s Google Ideas initiative, a think tank tasked with “tackling some of the toughest human challenges.” Ideas’ mission statement also highlights the program’s search for “challenges that affect multiple regions and demographics, so that the technological developments our insights fuel will scale to help as many people as possible.”
Via: Yahoo
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