Met several nice people (each of them extremely capable) all focusing their skills on poverty alleviation. The place is full of hope. I sensed several opportunities for us to engage with their work. Our 2 hour meeting was focused upon the use of portable media players.
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Had a great visit at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Friday, August 6th, 2010Portable video screen
Monday, June 21st, 2010We are working on an inexpensive portable screen with a built in speaker.
Perhaps the post will be 75% less than the others on the market. http://www.mitsubishi-presentations.com/pdf/nuvu.pdf
Trapped in England by an Icelandic volcano
Friday, April 16th, 2010Seems like a title for a Kurt Vonnegut novel but none the less, it has indeed happened to me.
Skoll World Forum update
Thursday, April 15th, 2010It is a real privilege to be among so many people who are full of hope. 800 of the world’s most impactful and influential social entrepreneurs and key partners are here in Oxford at #swf10. We are perhaps the most hopeful people in the world, seeing not problems but opportunity. People promoting good and fighting wickedness. At times I am fully aware that this is one of the most pleasant places in the world to be. Extremely satisfying.
smallest DLP pico projection engines
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Texas Instruments (TI) announced its nHD chipset, an addition to TI’s DLP Pico suite that will enable the thinnest, smallest DLP pico projection engines to date. The chip will permit projector technology to be embedded into smaller devices in a wide range of product categories.
Cal Berkeley ICT4D
Friday, January 29th, 2010Had several great meetings at Berkeley with Eric Brewer, George Scharffenberger, Kentaro Toyama and Tapan Parikh. We look forward to collaborating with them in the coming months in field trails, research and funding.
What we do
Monday, November 16th, 2009OMPT is advocating, adapting, providing and teaching NGOs how to use low cost technologies to extend the reach of capable teachers
first post from the Droid
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Working on articulating
Thursday, November 5th, 2009the “New Idea” succinctly; a clear vision of the needs we’ve identified, our goals, methodology and evaluation method.
Android OS for PMP?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Playing with a Motorola Droid. Seems like a great PMP.