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Expanding access to medical research for better healthcare - HINARI
09 September 09 10:11 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
At Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, doctors and staff have developed one of the country’s most advanced health facilities with the help of journals and research made available through an innovative online platform – HINARI. Part of the Research4Life Read More...
First Place Imagine Cup Design for Development Award goes to COSMIC!
07 July 09 02:09 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
This just in from Cairo...a big congratulations to team COSMIC from U niversiti Sains Malaysia ! At tonight’s Imagine Cup closing ceremony staged in front of the Pyramids , Jasy Liew Suet Yan, Loo Wan Koe, Mathew Phiong Yoon Kheong, Ooi Keng Siang were Read More...
MultiPoint won’t stop them preferring football to Maths, but it might help develop their learning ability
04 June 09 07:47 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
This article from IDG’s PC World site about some of the challenges to teaching in Thailand, and technologies to help overcome them, was interesting and had a humorous ending. A reporter came to visit one of the schools where we are trialling Microsoft Read More...
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...
The best laid schemes of mice and men, By Camille Mazo, business development manager, Unlimited Potential Group APAC
02 April 09 07:44 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
At first glance a line penned in 1785 by Scotland’s famous poet Robbie Burns and the modern Thai education system have very little in common, but it was this line that kept popping into my head as I watched a Windows MultiPoint demonstration in Bangkok Read More...
The story behind MultiPoint
30 March 09 12:39 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
It’s incredibly exciting for us to see increased momentum with MultiPoint in schools! MultiPoint was conceived during the summer of 2005 at Microsoft Research India , when we visited rural schools in India to understand how they use PCs. We discovered Read More...
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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...
GLF Asia—The Limitless Potential of Education for Lifelong Growth: Anoop Gupta
15 May 08 01:37 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
Last Thursday and Friday in Jakarta, Indonesia, I had the privilege to attend this year’s Government Leaders Forum—Asia. It was my first time attending one of these events in my new capacity leading the Unlimited Potential Group, and offered a thrilling Read More...

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