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Imagine Cup Students Travel to Redmond
15 June 09 07:05 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Last week, students participating in the Imagine Cup traveled to Microsoft’s Redmond campus to meet with various Microsoft teams as they prepare for the 2009 Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt. Team SKAN from India and Team MultiPoint WEB from the U.S. Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Travel Diary: India- Michael Rawding
14 August 08 02:23 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Recently, I spent a little under a week traveling throughout India, visiting some of Unlimited Potential’s programs and partners that are working to bring increased social and economic opportunity to the region through the benefits of technology. It’s 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...
Partnerships for e-Health in India- Michael Aldridge
07 May 08 08:50 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Hello, I’m Michael Aldridge, group manager of the Rural Incubations Team in Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group. Our team is chartered with the development of various emerging market strategies and incubations, primarily focusing new kinds of relevant Read More...
Transforming Education in India - Orlando Ayala
27 June 07 06:59 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 1 Comments   
I am pleased to be joining you again from the road—this week, I am in India to support our ongoing efforts to extend the power of technology to the world’s underserved populations. India’s uneven economic and social balance, with over 98% of the population Read More...
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