Wired co-founder Jane Metcalfe profiled in WSJ

The Wall Street Journal has a nice look at what Jane Metcalfe is up to these days.

Jane Metcalfe
Today she and Mr. Rossetto are co-partners in Força da Imaginaçao, a Berkeley, Calif.-based investment firm focusing on technology, media, and real estate. (Its name is Portuguese for "the force of imagination.") She's working on plans for a new facility that will house the University of California-Berkeley art museum and the Pacific Film Archive, which she expects will have a substantial impact on the community. "Our plan is for visitors to be not just a cultural consumer, but a cultural participant," (For example, she says the museum will have a Web site offering podcasts and blogging.)

Ms. Metcalfe also serves on the board of One Economy, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit aimed at helping the poor through the spread of technology. One Economy has recently turned its focus to Africa, but for six years it worked to get Americans online, helping bring broadband connections into the homes of 200,000 low-income people. It is now building virtual communities that provide information and resources for schools, jobs, housing and more in Jordan and South Africa.

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