Technology in Third World. $100000
The Intel’s INSPIRE-EMPOWER challenge offers $100000 for innovative projects that can help to better the education, healthcare, economic development, or the environment of people in poor nations.
Morro de Carapina, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
It is worth a thought how can 1st world researchers cooperate with new ideas with these people with less geographic luck. Poverty belongs to certain countries, or regions, or neighbourhoods in some cities. This reality is extremely harsh in a very rich country as Brazil, where hundreds of thousands of people leave in the favelas, with no chance to improve their lives in their heavily conditioned context, spatial enviroment.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
An interested project that uses technology in underdeveloped regions: http://www.ehas.org/proyectos.html
September 26th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
[...] wrote a post about an INTEL initiative for innovative ideas to help poor nations. Now Google has released the 10100 project. They offer $10 million to implement the best 100 ideas [...]