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Africa can teach development experts

Writing in the Financial Times: This is Africa, Iqbal Quadir cites African examples of dispersion of power leading to accountability and economic progress.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Aid , Governance, Mobile Technologies

No point reinventing the wheel

Article in African Business discusses Legatum Center and its inaugural conference.

Categories: Africa, Cambridge, Information and Communication Technology, Innovation Investment

$50 million MIT Biz Innovation Center Opens To Africans

Africa Link

October 2008

Psychiatrist and Health Economics specialist Dr. Oladapo Tomori of Nigeria and Environmental Civil Engineer, Jean-Pierre Mshimyimana of Rwanda are among the first class of 12 Legatum Fellows admitted to the prestigious Center for Development and Entrepreneurship hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge USA. They have since commenced their studies.

Categories: Africa, Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Technologies, News

Will Money Solve Africa’s Development Problems?

Iqbal Quadir shares his views on, and recommendations for Africa’s development challenges.

Categories: Africa, Entrepreneurship

Creating Empowerment

The best way to help a people is to help them help themselves.  To this end, Iqbal Quadir is developing a new, portable technology that will enable rural Bangladeshi to generate electricity from cow dung.

Categories: Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, Energy, Mobile Technologies

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