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Tuesday was election day here in Portland. It wasn’t a particularly important election unless you were running for Mayor or a supporter of the county library. I fall into the latter category.

MobileActive.org is one of my favorite resources for news about mobile phone as a catalyst for innovation in developing countries. During a recent perusal of the site, I found a blog post on a new study by two Microsoft researchers Nimmi Rangaswamy and Edward Cutrell entitled Anthropology, Development and ICTs:...

Yesterday’s energy around International Women’s Day 2012 was impressive. Twitter was abuzz with videos and factoids demonstrating the importance of investing in women to address cycles of crushing poverty in the developing world.