Microsoft India
Need to spend some time looking at Microsoft’s Research team in India, specifically their Technology for Emerging Markets, even more specifically:
- Financial service delivery to the poor and technology - which is looking into how those who live in poverty access financial services
- Warana unwired - which replaced PCs with phones using an SMS gateway for a rural sugarcane coop
- The use of ICTs by small and informal businesses - which looking into information and communication habits of micro-businesses (businesses with less than 5 people)
- The digital studyhall - which is “Netflix + YouTube + Kazaa”
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