Silicon Valley Musings

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In a surprise announcement at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett informed a keynote audience that the world’s biggest chipmaker would work together with Grameen Bank. The financial institution was started […]

I found this article from the 3GSM World Congress interesting.
“The “Phones-for-Health” project will use software loaded on to a standard Motorola handset to allow care workers in the field to enter critical health information into a central database in real time.”
It is very similar to a pilot project we were designing during my tenure at […]

Page Yunus, Brin, and Doerr
Most Silicon Valley technocrats will recognize three of the four people in this picture. They are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and John Doerr from Kliener Perkins Caufield & Byers.
But you might not recognize the recipient of this years Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus. I had […]

I just came across this podcast by Dr. Paul Farmer. He does amazing work in the area of Tuberculosis and AIDS treatment thought his organization, Partners in Health.

Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative and educational materials free to share and re-use, unveiled today its Developing Nations copyright license. Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig and Developing Nations license architect Jamie Love announced the new license at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue’s workshop on “The Future of WIPO,” in […]

During my Digital Vision fellowship at Stanford, one of the things I noticed is that many emerging economies are seeking to attract manufacturing or impersonal service jobs (e.g. call centers). The problem with this approach is it creates low paying jobs that are easily moved to the next lowest bidder.
As an alternative, I suggest emerging […]

Silicon Rally ? April 19, 2004
Terse due to low laptop battery
The most interesting person (aside from Dr. Engelbart) was Mora Mclean, Africa America Institute http://www.aaionline.org.
Gapminder, Ola Rosling
Open source data series visualization
Uses to visual two variables. Examples: Money vs Heath
Animated. Using Director, moving to Flash
Using the WHO and UN’s data sets. Currently for sale, but is […]