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In the hands of the people

Fortune, Brainstorm Tech: Iqbal Quadir discusses how hand-held computers - also known as cell phones - are changing the world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Mobile Technologies

The Debate Zone: Will Asia become the center of innovation for the 21st century?

In McKinsey: What Matters, Iqbal Quadir debates Asia's potential to become the center for innovation in the 21st century.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Entrepreneurship, Governance, Mobile Technologies

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

Communication Breakdown

Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, debate the merits of technology in the developing world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Education, Entrepreneurship, Information and Communication Technology

$50 million MIT Biz Innovation Center Opens To Africans

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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

GSMA MobileWorld Congress, February 2008

Iqbal Quadir addresses the GSMA MobileWorld Congress and uses the story of GrameenPhone to illustrate the unique potential of cell-phones and communication technologies to alleviate poverty in the developing world.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Mobile Technologies

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 2008: Bangladesh Calling

A video profile of Iqbal Quadir: how one man’s unique vision for Bangladesh is changing the way we think about development.

Categories: Bangladesh, Bottom-up Development, Innovation Investment, Mobile Technologies

“Technology Empowers the Poorest” Long Now Foundation Seminar, May 21, 2008

Iqbal Quadir joins the Long Now Foundation as part of their Seminar on Long Term Thinking series.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Economics

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