Discovery.com highlights Iqbal Quadir and the Legatum Center

The Legatum Center at MIT, Quadir’s latest brainchild, provides a ground-breaking approach to development studies.

Legatum Center Director cultivating a “new generation of bottom-up believers.”
 

This article chronicles the successes of GrameenPhone and its founder Iqbal Quadir.

This article delves into the innovative ways in which light and power are being supplied to previously un-serviced areas.  These approaches represent a shift away from traditional centralized, resource-demanding, “extend the grid” solutions and toward environmentally-friendly, resource-recycling, “off-grid” alternatives.

Iqbal Quadir’s Anwarul Quadir Prize, named after his father, rewards innovators in Bangladesh.

New fuel cell technology may prove to be an ideal low-cost power source.

“Bottom-up” versus “Top-down”: Iqbal Quadir (GrameenPhone and Emergence Bio) and Nicholas Negroponte (One Laptop Per Child) share their views on development.