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Digital Inclusion

October 24, 2009

Iqbal Quadir director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT

Nicholas Negroponte founder, One Laptop Per Child

Calestous Juma professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Calestous Juma hosts a talk with Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Iqbar Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones and now supports MIT students whose start-ups will have a positive impact on developing countries.

This event is sponsored by Verizon.

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Topics: Business & Economics | Culture & Identity | Media & Technology | People & Places

Tags: Activism | African | one laptop per child | African American | Computing | Classroom & Community | Community Building | Electronics | Web Media | Asian | Economics | Engineering | Internet | Non-Profit | Lifestyle

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Author: Nicholas Negroponte

Publisher: Vintage (1996)

Binding: Paperback, 272 pages

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Publisher: The MIT Press (1973)

Binding: Paperback, 164 pages

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