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Pop!Tech – On Cell Phones, Entrepreneurship, and African Governance
Last night, I wrote a post about Camden, Maine - where I am attending Pop!Tech 2007.? At the very end, I mentioned that I was heading out to meet up with Nathan Eagle, a MIT entrepreneur-engineer who runs the Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles project. Well, I did run into...
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Pop!Tech – Innovation From the Bottom Up
Pop!Tech session two is about to start, and I’m pumped. As you’ll see from the schedule, the speakers in session two (Jessica Flannery, Paul Polak, and Adrian Bowyer) are probably the most apropos for our “base of the pyramid” audience here at NextBillion.net. Not only that,...
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Pop!Tech – Art and Data Driving Change
Want to get someone to change the way they live?? To change their habits, lifestyles, mores, opinions?? Lectures don’t work - almost anyone will zone out.? Data help - but numbers can be soporific, too. It may be obvious to anyone who has ever attended a PowerPoint presentation, but...
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