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Geek heresy : rescuing social change from the cult of technology

Toyama, Kentaro

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Summary: "In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015

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