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January 01 2009
Phone vs. Laptop: Which Is a More Effective Tool for Development? Open Access
Iqbal Quadir,
Iqbal Quadir
Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder of GrameenPhone, Emergence BioEnergy, and the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With Professor Philip Auerswald, he is the co-founder and coeditor of Innovations.
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Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child nonprofit organization. He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was co-founder and director of the Media Lab and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.
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Iqbal Quadir
Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder of GrameenPhone, Emergence BioEnergy, and the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With Professor Philip Auerswald, he is the co-founder and coeditor of Innovations.
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child nonprofit organization. He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was co-founder and director of the Media Lab and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology.
This debate originally appeared in the January 2009 issue of Good Magazine <www.good.is>. Innovations thanks the editors of Good for permission to reprint this debate.
Online ISSN: 1558-2485
Print ISSN: 1558-2477
© 2009 Tagore LLC.
2009
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2009) 4 (1): 25–31.
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Iqbal Quadir, Nicholas Negroponte; Phone vs. Laptop: Which Is a More Effective Tool for Development?. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2009; 4 (1): 25–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2009.4.1.25
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