Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14giridharadas.html?sudsredirect=true
Ushahidi also represents a new frontier of innovation. Silicon Valley has been the reigning paradigm of innovation, with its universities, financiers, mentors, immigrants and robust patents. Ushahidi comes from another world, in which entrepreneurship is born of hardship and innovators focus on doing more with less, rather than on selling you new and improved stuff.
Labels: development, device, handheld, ict, ict4d, information, kenya, local, participatory, social_change, technology, wireless Links to this post
Posted by Kevin Walker at 3/17/2010 10:08:00 PM 1 comments
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