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Video Contest: 7 Ways to Change the World, enter today
09 November 09 11:23 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Good morning, I wanted to give you all a quick update on the 7 Ways to Change the World video contest. As a little background, we asked folks how they would use Windows to help their local community and so far we’ve received some great videos. ProjectExplorer.org Read More...
The EU-Africa Business Forum: ICT for Regional Economic Growth
15 October 09 10:01 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
The current moment is a particularly challenging one for the continent of Africa. Following in line with the global economic crisis, growth in Africa is now expected to be only 2.8 percent in 2009, following five years of consecutive growth above 5.5 Read More...
In Rwanda, Technology is Helping Education be a Catalyst for Peace
08 October 09 01:47 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda devastated the country’s economy and its education sector – the backbone of economic and social development. Since overcoming the tragedy, the government has focused on education as a means of reducing poverty and restarting Read More...
World Teachers' Day 2009
05 October 09 01:26 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
UNESCO celebrates World Teachers’ Day today on the anniversary of the 1966 signing of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers which addresses teacher policies, rights and responsibilities. There are over 59 million teachers around Read More...
Bringing the Benefits of Technology to Refugees; Improving Education and Enhancing their Long-term Livelihood
24 September 09 10:25 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Bangladesh, Rwanda and New York City may not seem to have a lot in common but they are all currently showcasing an innovative program to help refugees in remote camps with limited electricity supply to gain access for the first time to information and Read More...
Global Give Back Circle featured at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
24 September 09 08:20 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
This week the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting is taking place in New York. The CGI website describes this event as a meeting that “brings together a diverse group of the world’s most distinguished leaders from government, business, and Read More...
One day with OneApp
16 September 09 03:42 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
We’ve blogged a fair bit on the launch of OneApp , but I wanted to give some insight into how I’m actually using the local service, called mibli , here in South Africa, where we signed up our first partner, Blue Label Telecoms. My day goes something like Read More...
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Welcome to mibli powered by OneApp
10 September 09 04:21 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Today in Johannesburg, our first OneApp partner, Blue Label Telecoms, officially launched its mibli powered by OneApp service. This new service provides customers with basic feature phones in South Africa with over a dozen new mobile apps, including a Read More...
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...
OneApp – just the beginning!
27 August 09 02:24 PM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Wow. The interest in OneApp has been phenomenal – thank you! A great start to a very busy week. The most interesting part of releasing a new product is the valuable feedback that follows. With OneApp, we’ve seen such a positive and constructive response Read More...
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Introducing OneApp – Fun and Function
24 August 09 11:55 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Of all of the work we do on the Unlimited Potential team, our efforts in the mobile space probably excite me the most. Why? Well, the last decade has seen mobile phone adoption skyrocket – over 50% of the world’s population owns a mobile device – and Read More...
No Summer Holiday for Partners in Learning!
11 August 09 07:07 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
On the Unlimited Potential team we work with the common understanding that education is the cornerstone of economic opportunity and I am always amazed at how far my team will go to make sure that the benefits of technology are extended to communities Read More...
Beyond the PC: Helping governments do more with technology
27 July 09 03:49 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
At the Centre Africain d'Etudes Supérieures en Gestion (CESAG), a prestigious regional school of management for West and Central Africa, Microsoft introduced an ICT training program for government leaders and decision makers. CESAG is located in Senegal, Read More...
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UNESCO & Microsoft join forces to promote greater access and use of ICT for higher education enhancement
13 July 09 08:26 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   
Last week in Paris close to 100 ministers of education, senior education officials and policy advisors attended the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) followed by the Microsoft Education Leaders Forum . The WCHE is focusing on critical 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...
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