Boston Book Festival

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Digital Inclusion

 

Be inspired by Nicholas Negroponte, whose One Laptop per Child aims to give a laptop to the world's poorest children, and by Iqbal Quadir, who connected millions of the rural poor in Bangladesh through Grameenphone cellphones. This Boston Book Festival 2009 session on digital inclusion was hosted by Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Sponsored by Verizon.