GPS from Cars to Mobile Phones

Design and Development:

• Design that Solves Problems for the World's Poor, New York Times
• Low Technologies, High Aims, New York Times
• Fast, Cheap and in Control, The Boston Globe
• Design for Extreme Affordability, Stanford Business School Magazine
• 7 inventions for developing nations, Fortune
• The Case for Technology in Developing Regions, IEEE
  

Economics

• Bill Gates Issues Call for Kinder Capitalism, Wall Street Journal
  • Text of Bill Gates' speech at Davos
  • Rebuttal by William Easterly, Wall Street Journal
• Wealth and Happiness don't neccessarily go hand in hand, Wall Street Journal
  
• The Intractability of South Asian Poverty, The Economist
• Will Charity or Profit Bridge the Digital Divide, The Economist
• Why India needs to reform its labor laws, The Economist
• With Development, Commodity Prices Surge, NYT
• Aids Charity Blames Bono for Aggravating Africa's Plight, Thaindian
• The Economic Lives of the Poor, MIT Press
• You are what you spend, New York Times (good for showing patterns of consumption)
• Charity vs. Capitalism in Africa, Businessweek
• The in-betweeners: middle class in developing countries, The Economist
• Another day, another $1.08, The Economist

Energy and Environment

• Paying in Pollution for Energy Hunger, New York Times
• Renewable Energy Technologies for Developing Countries, Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
  
• Cutting Pollution and Growing the Economy: The American Experience, Speech by US Consul to Hong Kong
• Biofuels Business in Developing Countries, SaveEnergyNow
• Energy Gap in Africa, New York Times
  

Education

• Tata Indicom Launches Mobile Phone Education Program, e-India

Health

• Stove for the Developing World's Health, New York Times
  
• Telemedicine in Rural India, PLOS
• Poor Haitians Eat Dirt to Survive, Yahoo News

Transportation

• Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 Car, New York Times
• Nano Step: Making India the small car hub
• China Developing Cars, Autoblog
• Ford Investing Money to Build Plant in India, Autoblog
• Delhi's Fearless Cycle Enthusiasts, BBC News
• China carmakers eye US market, BBC News

ICT4D

• 23,000 Linux PCs spark Education Revolution in the Philippines, Computerworld
  
• One Clunky Laptop Per Child, The Economist
• Politics 'stifling $100 laptop', BBC News
• Rice and Laptop, An opinion, BBC News
• Intel Unveils $400 Laptop for Developing Countries
• Conference features technology for Third World countries
• Digital Divide in Third World Countries
• ghana: technology reduces poverty
• 3GSM World Coverage Map 2007
• Measuring What you Spend, Slate

Mobile Phones

• Mobile Phones Empower the Base of the Pyramid, NextBillion
  
• How mobile phones are improving the economy in developing countries, The Economist
  
• The Mobile Web is NOT helping the developing world, and what we can do about it, Mobile Active
  • See Also: http://www.blogspot.kiwanja.net/2007/09/digital-divider.html
  • and: Making the Mobile Web Relevant for Rural Communities in the Developing World, W3C
  • and: The Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, W3C
    
• Smartphones are the PCs of the Developing World
• Mobile Payments in a Developing World, The Economist
• Nokia Making World Less "Foreign": Menu Translator,Engadget
• India's Mobile Market Development, Engadget
• India looks to a new telecom generation, Asia Times
• Apple pulls China iPhone release, BBC News
• Emerging giants spur telecom boom, BBC News
• Designing mobile device apps for illiterate to semi-literate microfinance users in India,Tapan Parikh
• Designing collaborative user interfaces for computing in rural India, Tapan Parikh
  

Politics

• Mobile Phones and Mass Organizing: a White Paper, Mobile Active
• SMS as Information Channel in Post Election Kenya, Mobile Active

Media

• In India, the Golden Age of Television is Now, New York Times --- WOW, half of all Indian households have a television!
  
• How TV is empowering the women of India, Slate
• Vietnam makes a start on media reform, The Communist government in Vietnam is tackling on media reform by investing in media equipment and educating the people in western form of journalism.

Urban Poverty

• A Flourishing Slum: Dharavi, The Economist

Agriculture

• Software and Seeds: Lessons in Community Sharing. Article argues for the free information of farmers sharing seeds and makes interesting parrallels with the computer industry
• Oil Nothing As Big a Concern As...Food..? National Post

Legal

• Scheme to 'share environmentally-friendly patents', Moving towards open-source tech..

Malaysian Focus

• Technology Development in Malaysia and the Newly Industrializing Economies: A Comparative Analysis, Asia Pacific Development Journal
• Malaysia Focused on 2020 Vision, BBC News
• Malaysia Hopes to find Place in Space, BBC News

Broadband speeds around the world, BBC News



Cameron Esfahani

MicroPlace, and eBay Company
Mira Groupware
- This is an open-source project for business or personal collaberation. It is very interesting, as it seems to emphasize its ability to do easy international communication.


Sneha Borikar

engineering world health





Garrett Smith
International Humanitarian Foundation

Engineering World Health


Alice Chu
Third World first , The Boston Globe
AMD Project Brings Web Access to Third World
Orange to Launch Wind-Powered Mobile Phone Charger , CIO

Pauline Poysophon

LA Times Investigates: Unintended Victims; the Gates Foundation's generous gifts to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa have inadvertently put many of those with other healthcare needs at risk. (12/06/07)
-I only have the hardcopy of this article and for whatever reason cannot find the online version. Ask me for the hardcopy!

The Village Voice: Agony in Africa (Part 3)

ShingYin Wang
GPS from cars to mobile phone
Silicon Valley Starts to Turn Its Face to the Sun

John Elberson
Mind the technology gap, World Bank warns
The report is linked to at the bottom of the article, and is pretty interesting itself.

DIY Lab Scanner made from Standard CD Drive
More homebrew solutions..


http://www.leakeycollection.com/mission-statement.php
The Leakey Collection - Founded by Phillip and Katy Leakey which provides economic opportunites for the Maasai women of Kenya

“The goal in creating an urban Biosphere Reserve is to reunite the city’s built environment with its long-divorced natural home,” Rosenzweig said. “As we go forward as a city, we want to bring a consciousness about the environment to our designs and plans.”
"I don't know why the people who give this Nobel Prize in economics have not discovered yet that the best economists in the world are the poor women of the world," Toledo said. "They repay their loans more promptly than big corporations."




Jan Wongchuking
ENVIROFIT ENGINE SOLUTION NAMED ONE OF WORLD’S TOP 10 INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY FIRST DEVELOPED AT COLORADO STATE
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=868472342