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“Phone First” in Boston
24 January 09 06:41 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   

Last month I had the opportunity to attend NextLab 2008: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users . It was a one-day conference at the MIT Media Lab involving projects from an interdisciplinary class there focused on how to apply cell Read More...

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Paul Polak and the Art of Listening
19 November 08 02:56 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   

Paul Polak is a hero of mine. He created a nonprofit organization called International Development Enterprises (IDE) and spent 25 years there developing creative ways to make poor people in Asia and Africa less poor. His specialty is developing sustainable Read More...

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ICT4D Explained
12 August 08 07:38 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   

ICT4D, or "Information and Communication Technologies for Development" is the name for the multidisciplinary academic approach involving the application of high tech to address international development problems. Kentaro Toyama - who leads Microsoft Read More...

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