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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...

Filed under: India, Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, Software Design, MultiPoint Education, Egypt, student

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...

Filed under: Education, India, Imagine Cup, technology, Design for Development, student, first-time PC users, eLearning

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...

Filed under: India, Imagine Cup, UN Millennium Development Goals, technology, Design for Development

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...

Filed under: Education, India, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, schools