June 2008 - Posts

Addressing food shortages in India-- Novices@Work
30 June 08 09:15 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

The following guest post comes from Novices@Work, a team of finalists for the Imagine Cup Rural Innovation Award from India. They developed a site-specific crop-management system for farmers called Kalpvriksha . The system employs Wireless Sensor Networks Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, Rural Innovation Award

Imagine Cup and the Rural Innovation Award — Michael Rawding
26 June 08 05:25 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Those of you that follow Microsoft might be familiar with Imagine Cup – an annual student technology competition that Microsoft sponsors. This year Unlimited Potential has worked with Imagine Cup to add a new category -- the Rural Innovation Award . At Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, India, Latin America, Rural Innovation Award, Education, Africa, Asia

Africa’s Unlimited Potential – Will Poole
19 June 08 06:26 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been in Africa to participate in a variety of activities supporting Microsoft Unlimited Potential’s efforts to bring the benefits of technology to the next 5 billion people. The continent continues to show strong economic Read More...

Filed under: NGOs, Public-Private Partnerships, Refurbished PCs, Africa, African ICT Best Practices Forum, Global Economy

Unveiling the educational side of Internet cafes – Jeremy Gittins
19 June 08 05:53 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

When someone mentions Internet cafés to me, I immediately think of backpackers sitting at banks of tables hammering out emails to their friends and families about their latest trip, catching up with the world and sports news, or more often than not destroying Read More...

Filed under: Europe, Russia, Education, Global Economy

Helping Students and Teachers Learn, Grow and Realize Their Dreams - Orlando Ayala
06 June 08 01:19 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Today I was privileged to attend the opening of the first Microsoft Partners in Learning school here in Kashgar, which will help Chinese authorities transform the country’s education system by leveraging the integration of technology in classrooms. The Read More...

Using the Power of Partnerships to Bring Computing to Rural China - Orlando Ayala
05 June 08 08:45 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

I am in Urumqi where, today, we donated two InfoWagons to the province of Xinjiang, which brings the number of vehicles we have donated to eight across China. In China, this donation is a key component of our focus on rural education and bringing the Read More...