Is the Real 100 Dollar Laptop a Cell Phone?
Doug Cantor over at Esquire points to Tapan S. Parikh and writes:
“With more than 80 percent of the global population having access to cell-phone service, the network for a technological revolution in the poorest parts of the world is already in place–it just needs to be harnessed, tweaked, and translated. This is Tapan Parikh’s charge. A computer scientist specializing in interface design at the University of California, Berkeley, Parikh studies communications glitches and other problems that hinder the open market and distribution of private aid and then designs simple, open-source downloadable cell-phone interfaces to fix the bottleneck.”
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