Thursday, December 29, 2011

iPoverty

The New York Times has a nice article by Thomas Friedman, The Last Person about the Indian Institute for Technology in Rajasthan developing an extremely cheap tablet computer that is affordable [with some government subsidy] to the extremely poor.

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