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Social entrepreneurship, the aftertaste of village phones and Yunus’ plans for the future
The Grameen village phone ladies are slowly going out of business but Davos discussion still refers on the same model.
Many Are Already at Work on Fulfilling Gatess Vision – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
Last week Mr. Gates called on the executives of the largest corporations to add social entrepreneurship to [...]
Are subsidized data networks the solution?
How will John Gage’s proposal play out in the telecom eco-system of developing countries? Who will operate them? Will they suffer the same fate as ICTA’s VSAT based connectivity for telecenters, where you can do Internet but cannot call the next village?
Can you just drop technology in, without addressing the overall institutional setting? [...]
Microsoft backs mobiles to access Internet
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: January 30, 2006
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 — It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education. But in the year since Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute [...]
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