Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Founding Director Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory Global Partnerships
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
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Mobile wireless network for rural communities that provides information and communication services to an entire community Houses Schools City Hall Rural Clinic Small business INTERNET LINCOS Container City Hall 11 Mbps 256 Kbps (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
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$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents $50 complex RF impedance analyzer for assaying material composition
OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY DESIGN B IOSENSOR D ESIGN PSi Multilayer Mirror PSi Central Layer UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH
OLSOLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Area #3: WORLD COMPUTER
Nanotectics Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999
OLSOLS TOMORROWS TOOLS WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL …. DIGITAL VILLAGE Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE
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