Last to first, real-time tweets from Las Vegas
- On my way home, via Virgin America. An excellent CES, could have stayed longer.
- TEC seminar takeaway: development needs financial, institutional, information & energy infrastructure.
- Chambers’ development keynote devolved into a tacky Cisco sales pitch.
- Cisco CEO John Chambers, standard corporate stump speech, interesting but generic.
- Windmill powers mobile phones & radio, info gained lets farmer grow & sell crops efficiently.
- Mobile phones primary IT platform in developing countries.
- William Kamkwaba from Malawi read library books, built windmill, powers village.
- Technology can help with 2 critical needs in developing world: finance & energy.
- 5 types of capital: financial, institutional, knowledge, human, cultural.
- Barrett finishes, room empties. Development panel will be more interesting but not a big draw.
- Barrett: small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
- Kiva.org: microcredit powered by web, supports low tech entrepreneurs.
- Telemedicine & health education applications, including learning games.
- Technology & Emerging Countries seminar at CES. Intel chair Craig Barrett speaking now.
- Murata Manufacturing showing a robot that rides a miniaturized bicycle. Interesting proof of technology.
- CEATEC breakfast interesting. Nissan car is tricked out with all kinds of detectors, called a “non-collision vehicle.”