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

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

7. 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

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

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

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

11. 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

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

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

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

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