Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan and Debra K. Decker Insure to Assure A New Paradigm for Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Security With large-scale disasters likely to be part of our future, and the potential for nuclear proliferation…
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Danés Stangler
Dane Stangler Creative Discovery Reconsidering the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Innovation The severe recession of 2008–09 has brought to the fore deep concerns regarding the U.S. economy’s ability to continue to grow, let alone to…
Jonathan Doner
Jonathan Donner Blurring Livelihoods and Lives The Social Uses of Mobile Phones and Socioeconomic Development Consider your own mobile phone use over the last 24 horas. Recall the family pho- tos you might have set…
Thomas Kalil
Thomas Kalil Harnessing the Mobile Revolution The premise of this essay is that the explosive growth of mobile communications can be a powerful tool for addressing some of the most critical challenges of the 21st…
David Porteous
David Porteous Mobilizing Money through Enabling Regulation Money will be fully mobile only when everyone has a safe place to store it, and the capability to receive and make payments, quickly and affordably, from and…
Kamal Quadir y Naeem Mohaiemen
Kamal Quadir and Naeem Mohaiemen CellBazaar: A Market in Your Pocket In the late 1990s, there was much prognostication about the sub-computer future. It would put leapfrog theory into action, allowing developing economies to catch…
Karim Khoja
Karim Khoja Connecting a Nation Roshan Brings Communications Services to Afghanistan Just as railroads opened up vast continents to development, commerce, and progress in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mobile technology today is a…
mohamed (Mo) Ibrahim
mohamed (Mo) Ibrahim Prerequisite to Prosperity Why Africa’s Future Depends on Better Governance Once, while flying over Kenya, I looked out over the countryside and asked myself why the inhabitants of a continent filled with…
Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte
Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte Phone vs. Laptop Which Is a More Effective Tool for Development? Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Grameenphone, and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, discuss the role…
William J. Kramer, Beth Jenkins, and Rob Katz
William J. Kramer, Beth Jenkins, and Rob Katz Large Companies, ICTs, and Economic Opportunity The past 50 years have, in many ways, been a revolution in global economic growth. Yet not everyone has participated in…