Reminder..... On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Gaetano Borriello <gaetano at cs.washington.edu > wrote:
> Here is the promised title and abstract - hope to see you there: > > Technology, The Cloud, and Developing Regions > > Eric Brewer > UC Berkeley & Google > > Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have become an > fundamental tool to improve the quality of life for the majority of the > world's population, a major change from a decade ago. The role for > universities it to create new technology options for developing regions and > to help apply technology in the places where market forces are insufficient > to create solutions. After covering some of the technologies that we have > deployed in developing regions, I shift to the great remaining potential > impact from energy, connectivity solutions, and the cloud. > > This is in some ways a follow-up to Eric's "The Case for Technology for > Developing Regions" talk at UW in 2004. > > Monday, June 6 at 10:30 in Gates Commons > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Gaetano Borriello < > gaetano at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > >> Eric Brewer <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/>, of UC Berkeley's CS >> Division <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/> and leader of the TIER >> group<http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/>, >> will give a talk on ICTD (title/abstract will be sent out soon) in the Gates >> Commons on the 6th floor of the Allen Center on Monday, June 6 at 10:30. >> >> Eric is one of the pioneers on the technology side of ICTD research, founder >> of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov (now >> USA.gov)<http://www.usa.gov/>, >> the portal for the US government, and he was founder and Chief Scientist >> of Inktomi Corporation, now part of Yahoo! >> >> I hope you'll be able to join us. >> >> Thanks, >> Gaetano >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110606/481bde3f/attachment.html>
