http://www.metafilter.com/tags/creativecapitalism Posts tagged with 'creativecapitalism' at MetaFilter. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:24:54 -0800 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:24:54 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74428/If%2Dinformation%2Dis%2Dpower%2Dthen%2Daccess%2Dis%2Dempowering In a recent <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1828415,00.html">Roundtable on Creative Capitalism</a> hosted <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1828069,00.html">by TIME</a>, CK Prahalad, author of "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+fortune+at+the+bottom+of+the+pyramid&aq=1&oq=the+fortune+at+">The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid</a>" brings to <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/01-24WEFDavos.mspx">our attention the insight</a> that "the <a href="http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2004/webArticles/043004_Nairobi.asp">essence of poverty</a> is the assymetry of information" and that this asymmetry <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43645">was now changing </a>due to the <a href="http://globaltechforum.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=rich_story&channelid=5&categoryid=18&title=To+do+with+the+price+of+fish&doc_id=10748">availability</a> and affordability of mobile <a href="http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Mobile_Phone_Adoption_in_Developing_Countries">phones in developing</a> nations. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jeffery+sachs&btnG=Search">Jeffery Sachs</a> supports him by <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/21/digitalmedia.mobilephones">pointing out</a> that the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/149075/mobile_phones_and_the_digital_divide.html">digital divide </a>was being closed by <a href="http://www.intelchallenge.com/">market forces</a> not civic efforts. Global <a href="http://www.chinacsr.com/en/2008/08/08/2760-nokia-china-focuses-on-rural-childrens-education/">leader Nokia</a> has <a href="http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=51926">already</a> leapt into the breach by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080608-nokia-to-open-research-unit.html">opening</a> a <a href="http://research.nokia.com/research/labs/teams/nokia_research_africa">Research Center</a> in Nairobi, <a href="http://blog.futurelab.net/2008/01/mobile_phone_credits_as_curren.html">Kenya</a> in order<a href="http://dailyguideghana.com/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6327"> to develop</a> concepts and<a href="http://www.undp.org/gimlaunch/"> products that are of value</a> and <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/06/barcamp-nairobi-took-place-thi.html">relevance </a>for those at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_of_the_pyramid">Base of the Pyarmid</a>. The ubiquitious<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/20/opera-mobile-web-usage-continues-to-rise-worldwide-and-especially-in-latin-america/"> little cellphone</a> has now <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/149679/delivering_aid_in_a_digital_world.html">been spotlighted</a> as a key <a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/08/26/reviewing-a-new-bop-critique-published-in-innovations-journal">tool for poverty </a>alleviation, although the <a href="http://ictlogy.net/20080824-the-digital-war-on-poverty-is-not-won-a-comment-to-jeffrey-sachs/">debate</a> continues. [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/58788/Is-there-anybody-out-there">previously</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74428 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:24:54 -0800 baseofthepyramid bop bottomofthepyramid cell creativecapitalism global mobile phone poverty prahalad sachs infini