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Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founder of Grameenphone Limited in Bangladesh. For nearly twenty years, he has been advocating for the use of mobile phones to empower ordinary people in low-income countries and for commerce-based solutions for their advancement. MaRS - Building Canada’s next generation of global…
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As the debate over Facebook’s privacy settings rages, it's arguable that there are more insidious operators at work—both at the national and international level. On May 18, 2010, CBC reported that our national security agency, CSIS, has warned that our government, university and industry computer systems are increasingly under cyber-attack. Internet filtering, censorship of web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication…
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The Future Lab promised exciting outcomes—and delivered! Three pre-selected teams with intriguing project ideas entered the lab and had less than 48 hours to come up with the game plan for how their ideas would be realized out in the world. The lab teams consisted of experts with a combination of skills: coding, marketing expertise, user experience design, impact analytics, ethics assessment, product development and project management. Their three…
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What is tech for change? Wondering how the world has changed? How can the stalled institutions of society be rebuilt and re-organized for the new age of networked intelligence? This is tech for change in action. This is the provocation of Don Tapscott. In his first-ever presentation of his upcoming book MacroWikinomics, the much anticipated sequel to the bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott will present the concept of mass collaboration as it applies…
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Jon Warnow is an online organizer who uses technology to unite communities around a common mission: solving the climate crisis. After graduating from college in Vermont in 2007, Jon helped coordinate “Step It Up,” a national campaign which connected over 2000 off-line events for a common call to climate action. He’s now working with 350.org, a grassroots initiative to stitch together a truly global climate movement. Jon is currently focused on developing…
Net Change Week 2010
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