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

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

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

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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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

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

  7. 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)

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

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

  10. $50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents $50 complex RF impedance analyzer for assaying material composition

  11. 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

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

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

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

  15. LINCOS Village Centers www.lincos.net

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

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

  18. Computer Clubhouses www.computerclubhouse.org

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