From SciDev.Net
Bernadine Dias, a Sri Lankan-born scientist based at Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU), United States, admits she "wears many hats". Her
main focus is robotics, but she also devotes a lot of time promoting
innovative ways of using technology in poor communities.
In 2004, Dias founded an initiative called TechBridgeWorld to forge
collaborations between CMU and developing communities around the
world, including poor neighbourhoods in the United States.
Dias believes this kind of relationship benefits both partners:
university staff and students learn about the real needs of the
world's poor, while communities gain skills and access to technology.
Ongoing TechBridgeWorld projects are using technology to improve
healthcare in Haiti and to teach English in Ghana. And when Dias
moved to Qatar last year to teach in the robotics department of
'CMU-Q', her university's recently launched local branch, she took
TechBridgeWorld with her.
Entire story:
http://www.scidev.net/content/features/eng/learning-to-listen-technology-and-poor-communities.cfm
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