Saturday, December 08, 2007

Market Power: Mobile Phones Empower the Base of the Pyramid (by NextBillion Writers Rob Katz and Ana Escalante) | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise

Lot of talk about the role mobile phones play in promoting development around the world, so is there space for OLPC? Is the future of development a mobile device and something as clunky as a laptop (no matter how well designed) will remain a relic of western IT usage?

By pushing PCs on developing countries, are we really just force-feeding them a technology they really don't want/need?


Market Power: Mobile Phones Empower the Base of the Pyramid (by NextBillion Writers Rob Katz and Ana Escalante) | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise

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