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Global Partnerships. Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Founding Director Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory. The Opportunity: The next generation of new technologies…. ….will be shaped by the needs of six billion people. Developing Nations Opportunity:.
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Global Partnerships Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Founding Director Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory
The Opportunity:The next generation of new technologies… ….will be shaped by the needs of six billion people
Developing Nations Opportunity: • New products for the billions entering the world markets • Leadership in these new, emerging IT and biotech industries • Making `IT for the Masses’ a reality
Digital Nations India (Government of India) Mexico (TelMex) Brazil (Banco Bradesco) Central American States (INCAE) Panama (Government of Panama) (Honduras, Bolivia, Columbia) USA (NSF) Denmark (Government of Denmark) Ireland (Government of Ireland)
The Media Lab Asia What: A network of national laboratories dedicated to bringing the benefits of emerging technologies to the masses Goal: Enable US$1B investment in innovative rural infrastructure and services leveraging $200M Government of India seed funding Founder / Director: Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Research Area #1: BITS FOR ALL …. TOMORROWS TOOLS OLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL
256 Kbps 11 Mbps 11 Mbps LINCOS Container INTERNET Schools Houses City Hall Small business City Hall Rural Clinic Ad Hoc Wi-Fi NetworksHuman-Scale Paintable Computers Mobile wireless network for rural communities that provides information and communication services to an entire community (M.L. Best, L. Burnes, M. Escobedo & H. Shakeel, forthcoming)
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Internet at $0.01/user www.media.mit.edu/~amir/daknet
Area #2: TOMMORROWS TOOLS …. TOMORROWS TOOLS OLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL
$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents $50 complex RF impedance analyzer for assaying material composition
PSi Multilayer Mirror PSi Central Layer PSi Multilayer Mirror BIOSENSOR DESIGN OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH
Area #3: WORLD COMPUTER …. TOMORROWS TOOLS OLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL
Nanotectics Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999
Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE …. TOMORROWS TOOLS OLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL
LINCOS Village Centers www.lincos.net
More Information http://www.medialabasia.org http://www.media.mit.edu/dn http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland
Baatchit Village Centers www.jiva.org/outreach/baatchit
Computer Clubhouses www.computerclubhouse.org