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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). That's easier said than done in a world where most product innovations are geared toward the rich. They're often experts at jugaad, the Hindi word for "frugal innovation."

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Can Technology End Poverty?

Harvard Business Review

Berkeley researcher Kentaro Toyama has a blog dedicated to calling out naïve or inappropriate uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). That's easier said than done in a world where most product innovations are geared toward the rich. They're often experts at jugaad, the Hindi word for "frugal innovation."