May 2009 - Posts

Text-Free Interfaces for the Illiterate
26 May 09 09:51 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Most computer applications are difficult to understand for those who are unable to read fluently. The heavy use of text in everything from menus to document content means that those who are illiterate are not able to access functions and services implemented Read More...

Filed under: India, Imagine Cup, Design for Development, Text-Free Interfaces

Steve Ballmer witnesses how young Indonesian innovators are working to prevent the spread of Malaria
19 May 09 10:17 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

By Bonnie Mamanua, Unlimited Potential Group Business Manager, Microsoft Indonesia Last week we welcomed our CEO, Steve Ballmer, to Indonesia. Steve was here to hold meetings with Microsoft staff as well as political and business leaders, but while he Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, Healthcare, Asia, Rural Innovation Award, UN Millennium Development Goals, Microsoft, technology, Egypt, Indonesia, student, developer

Think Beyond Technology!
14 May 09 10:24 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

On my first trip to India, I remember going to visit a rural village near Bhopal, where the Union Carbide chemical disaster happened. The visit was prompted by stories about a large agriculture conglomerate which had placed the first PC in the village Read More...

Filed under: India, Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, technology, Design for Development

Social Entrepreneurs in the Making
12 May 09 09:40 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

It is Imagine Cup season! Known as the “Olympics of Technology,” Microsoft Imagine Cup is the preeminent student technology competition in the world. This year, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, Rural Innovation Award, UN Millennium Development Goals, Egypt, Design for Development

What Schools in Burkina Faso, Senegal & Mali Can Teach UP
08 May 09 03:05 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

A year ago, the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Group in the Middle East & Africa started a series of pilots in Francophone West Africa, to introduce small-notebook PCs into schools in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Mali. Each pilot used Microsoft software Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Shared Access, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso

U.S. Imagine Cup Winners - Team MultiPoint Web
05 May 09 11:34 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   

After three days of intense competition from technology students across the country, the winner of the U.S. software design finalist for this year’s Imagine Cup was announced today. Congratulations to Team MultiPoint Web ! Jimmy, Mark and Luke Dickinson, Read More...

Filed under: Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, MultiPoint, Software Design, MultiPoint Education

Made in India to transform education worldwide
05 May 09 01:52 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Indian concept, global appeal Recently Microsoft India has experienced two very welcome “returns”. The first returnee was Amit Mital, an Indian working at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond as global head of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group. The second Read More...

Filed under: Education, India, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, schools