International Development Design Summit IDDS is dedicated to using technology to design simple yet efficient solutions for problems in the developing world. The application for IDDS 2008 is now available. Deadline Feb 10

Low Technologies, High Aims -- Andrew C. Revkin. 11 September 2007, NYTimes

Beneath the bustling “infinite corridor” linking buildings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just past a boiler room, an assemblage of tinkerers from 16 countries welded, stitched and hammered, working on rough-hewn inventions aimed at saving the world, one village at a time.

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Hi all, I'm looking for information about scientists, engineers and inventors who are social entrepreneurs and from developing countries.

Luis G. Lira
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Big-business, technology, and a little Bangladeshi village all came together to form a multi-million dollar company that improves the lives of the poor. Learn about this Nobel Peace Prize-winning project in YOU CAN HEAR ME NOW video introduction (youtube).

This is the first paper from the DIRSI Mobile Opportunities research project. The project is investigating strategies employed by the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean to access and use mobile telephony services, and working to identify the major market and regulatory barriers to increased penetration and usage as well as business opportunities for the "bottom of the pyramid" users. Overall, the project also is working towards a clearer understanding of how mobile telephony access contributes to social and economic development.

To do with the price of fish

May 10th 2007 From The Economist print edition

How do mobile phones promote economic growth? A new paper provides a vivid example.

"Grameen Bank has an impact on the poor, Grameen Phone on the entire economy", says Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Prize).

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The project "Community Microtelcos: Telecommunications and Microfinances for The Poor and The Poorest" will provide rural families in the Andes of Peru with access to telecommunications and microfinancial services in their communities for the first time.

Financial Assumptions of the System