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Book review: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier

Ethan Zuckerman

I’ve got a hip-high pile of books by my bedside, including several manuscripts written by good friends. But after Paul Collier’s talk at TED, his book moved to the top of the pile, and I spent a rainy Saturday diving into his new book, “The Bottom Billion”. It was time well spent. Collier has dedicated the last thirty years of his life to the study of African economics, as director of the development research group of the World Bank and now as Director of the Center...

Free Energy

Alex Steffen

Here's a cute little bit of solutions porn: Free Energy

Kenya, M-PESA and Independent Media

WorldChanging Team

by Nancy Scola The stories coming out of Kenya since last month's disputed presidential election have been upsetting ones, pitting the young and ignored against both an aging political class and an establishment press that kowtows to the urban elite. One bright spot? In the midst of the turmoil, Kenya's media activists are using cutting-edge mobile technologies to give voice to the voiceless. They're aiming to prove to their compatriots that an "alternative press" can challenge the politics...

Tata Nano: The Paradox of Global Innovation

WorldChanging Team

By Sanjay Khanna The launch on January 10, 2008, of the US$2,500.00 Tata Nano “People’s Car” is a watershed moment in Indian industrial achievement, no less significant from India’s perspective than the 2004 launch of the EDUSAT educational services satellite. It is the culmination of the efforts of India’s most powerful industrialists to compete for market opportunities on their home turf, opportunities that Western multinationals rushed to take advantage of as soon as India’s...

Mainstreaming Clean Energy in Rizhao, China

WorldChanging Team

On June 15, the city of Rizhao, China, received a 2007 World Clean Energy Award (WCEA) in the category of “Policy and Lawmaking” for its popularization of clean energy. The award’s presenters noted that in a nation known for its heavy dependence on coal, Rizhao represents an inspiring example of the mainstreaming of renewable energy sources. Large-scale solar power and marsh gas applications in the city directly benefit more than 1.5 million residents, dramatically reducing their yearly...

Principle 8: Leapfrogging

WorldChanging Team

In the industrialized world, we've gone through many phases and iterations of innovation to reach the level of technological advancement we currently enjoy. It took well over a century, for example, to get from Alexander Graham Bell's historic first telephone call to ubiquitous mobile phones and VoIP. And, indeed, in our societies, the old and the new are everywhere intertwined: we may use Blackberries and take genetically-targeted medications, but many of us still drink water delivered...

Ory Interviews Mama Mike's Founder

Alex Steffen

Worldchanging book contributor Ory Okolloh has posted a short, casual but informative interview with Mama Mike's founder Segeni Ng’ethe. It's really worth a read: There’s been an interesting debate going on in the Kenyan blogosphere about the dearth of investment opportunities in Kenya (esp. for Diaspora-based Kenyans aka KT’s) beyond the overdone real estate market and the stock exchange - what’s your view on this? Where else could guys be putting their money? I can’t comment on...

Thumb Drive Drive

Micki Krimmel

'Tis the season for giving, so Inveneo's giving us a way to offer up something useful to people in need. If you have some old dusty USB thumb drives lying around in drawers, dig them out. Inveneo is a non-profit we've written about quite a few times, which helps bring communication technology to remote and rural areas in the developing world. Recently, they provided some schools in rural Uganda with computers, and now they are looking to provide a means of transferring and storing data by...

Village Phone Direct

Robert Katz

What do cows and cell phones have in common? Until the advent of microfinance, the answer was not much. Over the past twenty or so years, small loans have enabled thousands of low-income clients to purchase a cow – a story we've all heard before. The client sells milk, making money to re-pay the loan and maintain a steady income. In recent years, microfinance clients in Bangladesh, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Philippines have used their loans to purchase cell phones and service through...

Unwrapping the One Laptop Per Child Machine

Alex Steffen

The One Laptop Per Child machine, the cute, kid-sized and rugged laptop designed to revolutionize access to educational resources in the Global South has arrived. We've published several sneak peeks at earlier models, but now you can see the real thing. Last week, the first of the new machines arrived at the OLPC offices. Here you can view some fun unboxing pix It may well prove that other approaches to creating cheap laptops and providing distant places with connectivity will prove more...

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