Global Partnerships Prof Alex Sandy Pentland Founding Director

Global Partnerships Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Founding Director Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory

The Opportunity: The next generation of new technologies… …. will be shaped by the needs of six billion people

Developing Nations Opportunity: n n n New products for the billions entering the world markets Leadership in these new, emerging IT and biotech industries Making `IT for the Masses’ a reality

Digital Nations India (Government of India) Mexico (Tel. Mex) Brazil (Banco Bradesco) Central American States (INCAE) Panama (Government of Panama) (Honduras, Bolivia, Columbia) USA (NSF) Denmark (Government of Denmark) Ireland (Government of Ireland)

The Media Lab Asia What: A network of national laboratories dedicated to bringing the benefits of emerging technologies to the masses Goal: Enable US$1 B investment in innovative rural infrastructure and services leveraging $200 M Government of India seed funding Founder / Director: Alex (Sandy) Pentland

Research Area #1: BITS FOR ALL …. TOMORROWS TOOLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL

Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Networks Human-Scale Paintable Computers Mobile wireless network for rural communities that provides information and communication services to an entire community Schools INTERNET 256 Kbps LINCOS Container 11 Mbps City 11 Mbps Houses City Hall Rural Clinic (M. L. Best, L. Burnes, M. Escobedo & H. Shakeel, forthcoming) Small business

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Internet at $0. 01/user www. media. mit. edu/~amir/daknet

Area #2: TOMMORROWS TOOLS …. TOMORROWS TOOLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL

$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents $50 complex RF impedance analyzer for assaying material composition

BIOSENSOR DESIGN OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY DESIGN PSi Multilayer Mirror PSi Central Layer PSi Multilayer Mirror UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH

Area #3: …. WORLD COMPUTER TOMORROWS TOOLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL

Nanotectics Brent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson, All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing, Science (286) 746, 1999

Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE …. TOMORROWS TOOLS DIGITAL VILLAGE WORLD COMPUTER BITS FOR ALL

LINCOS Village Centers www. lincos. net

More Information http: //www. medialabasia. org http: //www. media. mit. edu/dn http: //www. media. mit. edu/~pentland

Baatchit Village Centers www. jiva. org/outreach/baatchit

Computer Clubhouses www. computerclubhouse. org