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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

An idea whose time had come

The Economist's special report on entrepreneurship highlights Iqbal Quadir.

Categories: Entrepreneurship

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

Legatum Fellow, Nada Hashmi, speaking about entrepreneurship in developing nations at the KAUST Global Event in Saudi Arabia, Jan. 2009.

Legatum Fellow, Nada Hashmi, speaking about entrepreneurship in developing nations at the KAUST Global Event in Saudi Arabia, Jan. 2009.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Fellows

Legatum Center announces seed grants for MIT students

MIT undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for up to $2,000 in funding to support projects investigating the development of for-profit businesses in low-income countries during the 2008-2009 IAP session.

Categories: Entrepreneurship, News

Nobel economists support different development path

Entrepreneurship can be powerful tool against poverty: MIT News Office article on the Progress Through Innovation Conference.

Categories: Economics , Entrepreneurship

$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

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