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Designing for Illiteracy

Post author By David
Post date October 6, 2010

The use of technology, especially mobile phones, in poor and developing countries presents huge opportunities for designers. Mobile banking and microfinancing, as just two examples, can help the poor and unbanked with financial services and business support. But it was only after seeing the work by Indrani Medhi that it I grasped one of the […]

Tags developing countries, illiteracy, Indrani Medhi, literacy, microfinancing, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, OLPC, research, Technology Review

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Nicholas Negroponte: Jedi?

Post author By David
Post date March 25, 2010

Nicholas Negroponte, Engadget interview with Joshua Topolsky

Check out this recent interview with Nicholas Negroponte on The Engadget Show. A little background: Nicholas founded the Architecture Machine Group (or ArcMac) at MIT in 1967. His aim, partly inspired by Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad was to create an “architecture machine” — an active partner to help architects design buildings. The group also was responsible […]

Tags Architecture Machine Group, Engadget, interview, Joshua Topolsky, MIT Media Lab, Nichaolas Negroponte, OLPC