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Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Founding Director Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory Global Partnerships

The Opportunity: The next generation of new technologies…: 

The Opportunity: The next generation of new technologies… ….will be shaped by the needs of six billion people

Developing Nations Opportunity:: 

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

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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: 

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

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OLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Research Area #1: BITS FOR ALL

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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) Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Networks Human-Scale Paintable Computers

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Internet at $0.01/user www.media.mit.edu/~amir/daknet: 

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Internet at $0.01/user www.media.mit.edu/~amir/daknet

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OLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Area #2: TOMMORROWS TOOLS

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$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents $50 complex RF impedance analyzer for assaying material composition

BIOSENSOR DESIGN: 

OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY DESIGN BIOSENSOR DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER  CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH

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OLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Area #3: WORLD COMPUTER

Nanotectics: 

Nanotectics Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999

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OLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE

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LINCOS Village Centers www.lincos.net

More Information: 

More Information http://www.medialabasia.org http://www.media.mit.edu/dn http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland

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Baatchit Village Centers www.jiva.org/outreach/baatchit

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Computer Clubhouses www.computerclubhouse.org