Innovation has always been about people in rich nations getting the latest stuff and the rest of the world getting the castoffs as markets scale and prices come down. So why is Nokia looking to use Kenya to debut a free classifieds service, complete with a first-ever feature that allows people to shop using voice [...]
Filed under: News on December 23rd, 2009 @ 9:00 am
Tagged with: developing nations, economy, emerging markets, global economy, innovation
I’ve written in the past months about solar power’s prospects outside of large-scale solar farms and residential paneling, mostly as it would apply to gadgetry and daily use items. But it’s clear now that cell phones, as I’ve mentioned before, are a new frontier for the budding solar market, especially as they apply to the [...]
Filed under: Technology on October 21st, 2009 @ 9:13 am
Tagged with: Africa, cell phone, developing nations, electricity, gadgets, India, Nokia, Samsung, Solar Power, sustainability, Technology, Uganda
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.