OMPT Blog

We enjoyed our tour of the Hub and we’re happy to be members!

We met with Tapan Parikh and some of his students. We shard our vision and demonstrated our latest gear.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO, Nokia, will deliver a keynote address at the 2010 International CES as part of the third annual Technology and Emerging Countries (TEC) program, which focuses on technology’s role in furthering economic and sustainable development.

OMPT is making nice progress thanks to several students. Paul, Kyle, Olivia, Evan, Eli, Pradeep and Prasheen.

OMPT has a new intern!

Olivia Borrows is working with us.

She is from CSUC.

I have good news to share. Our attorney spoke with the IRS yesterday afternoon, and cleared up some confusion with regard to the for-profit subsidiary. For some reason, they got the idea that Polder was claiming that any for-profit subsidiary it may form in the future would be tax-exempt by virtue of the fact that the subsidiary would be controlled by Polder and would pay over its profits to Polder. Our attorney explained that this was not the case, and that any for-profit subsidiary Polder may form would be a separate, for-profit, taxable corporation. With this understanding, our IRS contact is recommending that Polder’s application for exemption be approved. We could expect to receive our determination letter within 4 to 8 weeks.

The we can start rasing funds!

This is big news.

Going back to the moon could cost $187 billion. Doubling the income of the world’s poorest billion cost just $1 billion.

using something like an iPhone, it would be possible to share a movie with a room full of people.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10284209-52.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

 TRAINING videos shown communally may be the most effective way to pass on new technologies and techniques to women farmers, a programme in west Africa suggests.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227134.300-video-roadshows-transform-african-agriculture.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news