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The Rural Innovation Award Finals--Kentaro Toyama, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
08 July 08 09:21 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
This morning, we heard presentations by the five teams in the finals for the Rural Innovation Award at the Imagine Cup 2008 . All five teams did an amazing job, and the enthusiasm and the quality of the work really made me appreciate what the Imagine Read More...
Connecting citizens with government in Indonesia – Team Antarmuka
07 July 08 09:08 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
The following guest post comes from Antarmuka, a team of finalists for the Imagine Cup Rural Innovation Award from Indonesia. Antarmuka developed a reporting system, Butterfly, which allows users to immediately report environmental problems that they Read More...
The Human Impact on Innovation-Kentaro Toyama, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
03 July 08 04:22 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
I do research in an area called ICT4D, short for “information and communication technology for development” – the goal of which is to invent technologies that support socio-economic development of poor communities worldwide ( http://research.microsoft.com/research/tem Read More...
Improving Rural Mass Transit Information in South Africa – Team Smile
03 July 08 11:45 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
The following guest post comes from Team Smile, a team of finalists for the Imagine Cup Rural Innovation Award from South Africa. Team Smile developed WhereIsMyShuttle?, which uses GPS/GPRS tracking devices fitted to buses to provide daily schedules of Read More...
Technology’s Impact to Those in Need—Edward Granger-Happ, CIO, Save the Children; Chairman, NetHope
02 July 08 05:04 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
I’m pleased to be participating in the judging panel of this year’s Rural Innovation Award at Imagine Cup 2008—evaluating the brilliant work of the young students who have created new technology solutions targeted to the needs of the world’s least fortunate Read More...
Designing for the Other 90%- Paul Polak
01 July 08 10:27 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Hello- I’m Paul Polak, one of the judges of this year’s inaugural Rural Innovation Award at the 2008 Imagine Cup. I’m thrilled to be attending this year in Paris to examine the technology innovations that this amazing crop of young minds has created to Read More...
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...
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...
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