Technology for Developing Communities
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Another health article (published at the start of the year) of a similar vein and this time in China:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/
12diabetes.html?ex=1158292800&en=84898a8ed5d6e059&ei=5070
A relevant talk on evaluation of developing world projects on fighting poverty:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/375/
On Botswana, and how it did well, despite colonialism:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/09/08/botswana/index.html
Loka Institute:
http://www.loka.org/index.htm
Human Development Trends 2005:
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/
Gap minder:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder
The Tennessee Valley Authority: Electricity for All
http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/
Nathan Eagle: Kenya and the future of mobile phones
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/11/nathan_eagle_kenya_a.html
A new ("beta") site on Pittsburgh's development
www.pittsburghtoday.org