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Our goal is to identify
and promote sustainable solutions for bridging the global
digital dividecatalyzing large-scale use of information
and communications technologies (ICTs) to create social and
economic "dividends" in poor communities throughout the developing
world.
We provide information services, including Clearinghouse project
data and analysis, full-length business case studies, news
alerts, and strategy consulting to help:
Companies
provide critical information, tools, and services to poor
communities throughout the developing world--profitably
Development
agencies implement bottom-up strategies for improving
the effectiveness of their services, and for providing services
more sustainably
Grassroots
NGOs and entrepreneurs identify and refine promising
business models as well as locate sources of funding and other
support they need to go to scale
All of our published information and analysis is publicly
available on this Web site. Use the links to the left to get
started, or contact us
for more information.
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[India, China] and other developing nations have the chance to rethink the meaning of being rural. If just a few political leaders were to reexamine their telecommunications agendas for the rural populace, poverty could be redefined in the digital age.
Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Lab
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