Please see the documents linked below for the information regarding the Owen project Pyramid class to take place in the spring of 2009 that will focus on the design of specific projects in the areas of Economic Development, Education, Health, Energey, and Water. You’ll als find a link to the application to go on […]

Ebenezer Aryee, a current Owen MBA candidate, is also a member of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Sudan. Eben has served in many other locations with the UN, including Rwanda when all other countries pulled their troops out of the country. Sudan has become a humanitarian crisis of great magnitude, with over 2.5 […]

Thanks to Dana Bushell for sending along this link to a story on Kiva, an online clearinghouse for matching individual lenders/donors with budding entrepreneurs around the world. Kiva dispells the myth that you have to have a lot of money to make a difference- all they solicit is $25 toward the entrepreneur/project of your […]

(hat tip - Bart Victor)
In a front page article for the Wall Street Journal, the author describes the the process and the problems (subscription required) of building out the mobile phone network in rural India. The promise: a template that can be applied to other regions.
India, with most of its people living in villages in […]

(hat tip - Ryan)
When Nicholas Negroponte announced the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative in early 2005, everyone thought it was wonderful. However, according to articles in the Boston Globe and New York Times (which should work if the Times’s no subscription policy has taken affect), orders for the XO Laptop have been falling below […]