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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Legatum is a group of enterprises whose combined mission is to promote excellence in both global investment and sustainable development

Categories: Cambridge

Banzaert measuring temperature and gasses

Legatum Fellow, Amy Banzaert, measuring the temperature and combustion gasses emanating from an early stage of the carbonization process.

Categories: Energy

Legatum Center Director heads jury for $1,000,000 Fortune Tech. Prize

Iqbal Quadir to serve as chairman on judging panel for newly created global technology award.

The Ringing Revolution

Mobile Phones have a revolutionary effect on the developing markets. Published in the Credit Suisse 'In Focus' Magazine.

Categories: Bottom-up Development, Mobile Technologies

School aims to seed the world with business sense

Legatum’s newly created Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT welcomes its inaugural class of twelve fellows.

Categories: Cambridge, Entrepreneurship, Fellows

Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?

This article details the role that cell-phones can and do play in the developing world.

Categories: Information and Communication Technology, Mobile Technologies

A bottom-up plan to turn Bangladesh's economy upside-down

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

Categories: Bangladesh, Bottom-up Development

Iqbal Quadir fait du mobile une arme contre la pauvrete

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

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

Smaller, smarter. For remote regions, electricity does have to mean extending the grid. There may be a simpler way

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.

Categories: Bangladesh, Energy, Foreign Aid

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