1. Danny Silver JSOCS, Acadia University
COMP 2903 A25 – China's Tech Generation Finds a New Chairman to Venerate
Danny Silver
JSOCS, Acadia University

2. Kevin Holden Wired, May 24, 2007

3. Do Chinese Youth really look up to Bill GateS?
Chairman Mao Zedong – father of revolutionary China
Gates is now just as popular
Books about him are best sellers
“The Road Ahead” one of the biggest sellers in history
Ultimate role model
Even in most rural China, one of the most influential foreigners
He has been recommended for a Nobel prize

4. Chairman Gates Celebrates free enterprise
Forges partnerships with Asia
Integrates China’s best and brightest into the web-linked world
$30M in computers and health care for rural China
$3 for MS Office for K-12 kids and on XO laptops

5. MS Motivation
To enable the masses .. With MS Windows and related software
Currently 600M Windows users
China could mean a substantial increase
Gates has hosted Chinese President Hu Jintao at his private residence in Seattle (2006)
Promoting the internet as the great equalizer

6. China Rising
Campus of 15,000 students in Zhuhai, 5 years ago did not exist
30 years ago there were few modern highways, now more than in many other countries in the world
60% of people in a US survey feel the next Bill Gates will come from China

7. China Challenges Software piracy – means wealth building is difficult
One child families present new challenges
Pace of development brings uncertainty