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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...

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Imagine Cup Design for Development Award - Tonight's the Night!
07 July 09 04:01 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

The Imagine Cup finalists for the Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award competed in Cairo yesterday. Early feedback suggests that the judges were deeply impressed by all of the creative thinking and passion that went in to the projects, designed Read More...

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Design for Development Finalists Announced!
16 June 09 06:28 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Only two weeks to go until the Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt! Our judges have narrowed the field of entrants for the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Design for Development Award and selected five finalist teams. I would like to thank Read More...

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How do people engage with PCs for the first time?
02 June 09 02:53 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Given that most of us have encountered PCs from the time we were in school or college, it may be difficult to think of what it was like to discover the PC for the first time! But most adults in countries like India are new to PCs, and usually view it Read More...

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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

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...

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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