Thursday, November 23, 2006

Motorola's Ed Zander prognosticates

Motophone: Motorola's big India bet
"The next generation networks allow you to put an amazing amount of video data, music and other things we talked about over the years, and if you couple that with what we are able to do on the handsets, everything that you did from PCs will now be done on handsets. Now, what form that takes and what;s the experience like, we are working on it."

I sure hope someone from Motorola is reading our research site :-)

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Education vs. bandwidth

: "President Kalam said it was critical to make bandwidth available for inclusion, because “..the less educated you are, the more bandwidth you need to communicate!

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This is an interesting insight, and very true.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Hippo Water Roller

Hippo Water Roller

Another really clever idea. I am impressed. The use of the hippo roller for land-mine protection is, unfortunately, a gruesome reality in many countries.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Low-cost rural communication

Milp - Www.india-gii.org

This is one of the most off-the-wall ideas I have seen in a long while. But it might just work! Imagine: modulating a hand-held laser pointer for low-cost voice communications. Amazing.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

DNA - Speak Up - Garbage mismanagement: Zero tolerance levels tested - Daily News & Analysis

This really is democracy in action - Indian style! A photo of a garbage dump - with a lame reply by the local environment officer. Multiply this by a billion, and you get systemic change!