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Information and Communications Technology for Development |
YES, Cellphones CAN Help End Global Poverty ICT4D @ MIT As a recent article in the New York Times reports, the rapidly spreading availability and affordability of cell phones in the developing world is transforming local economies and creating new opportunities for development. Come see how MIT students, together with 8 partner organizations in 7 developing countries, are designing and deploying new ways of using mobile and other information technologies to address some of the most pressing problems in the developing world. |
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Clockwise from upper left: Students learning with educational software in Malawi's Beehive School
(photograph: Justin Cannon); Medical practitioners in Pakistan present
portable ICT devices used to track their patients' medical records
during a health clinic organized by IRD (photograph: Rich Fletcher); A women's group in the target community of the CRS India disaster
management project (photograph: Saajan Chana); Potential users in the
Sao Paulo community of Parque Regina in Brazil show off their
cell-phones during a focus group for Assured Labor (photograph: Joseph Bamber). |
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