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From: Keith Snodgrass <snodgras@u.washington.edu> Date: November 10, 2010 3:02:27 PM EST To: snodgras@uw.edu Subject: [Soasiastudents] Bulletin 11.10.10

Akhtar Badshah introduces "Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets the Needs of Emerging Markets"

Thursday December 2, 2010 3:30 PM Burke Museum, UW Campus

Akhtar Badshah, senior director of Global Community Affairs at Microsoft Corporation

South Asia Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Global Business Center of the Foster School of Business, UW

snodgras@uw.edu, 206-543-4800

Akhtar Badshah co-edited this volume which discusses information and communication technologies (ICTs) which have revolutionized our lives by changing the way we live, play, work, communicate, learn, manage our finances, and stay healthy—just think of life without Facebook, cell phones, or email! But the majority of the world's people—the four billion at the bottom of the global economic pyramid living on less than $2 a day—remain largely unable to benefit from the ICT revolution, mainly due to its irrelevance to their needs and the high cost of technology in relation to their purchasing power. What if we could change all this? What impact would it have on reducing poverty and improving lives? What barriers need to be overcome before this can happen?

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