Here is the promised title and abstract - hope to see you there: Technology, The Cloud, and Developing Regions Eric Brewer UC Berkeley & Google Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have become an fundamental tool to improve the quality of life for the majority of the world's population, a major change from a decade ago. The role for universities it to create new technology options for developing regions and to help apply technology in the places where market forces are insufficient to create solutions. After covering some of the technologies that we have deployed in developing regions, I shift to the great remaining potential impact from energy, connectivity solutions, and the cloud. This is in some ways a follow-up to Eric's "The Case for Technology for Developing Regions" talk at UW in 2004. Monday, June 6 at 10:30 in Gates Commons On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Gaetano Borriello < gaetano@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

Eric Brewer <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/>, of UC Berkeley's CS Division <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/> and leader of the TIER group<http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/>, will give a talk on ICTD (title/abstract will be sent out soon) in the Gates Commons on the 6th floor of the Allen Center on Monday, June 6 at 10:30.

Eric is one of the pioneers on the technology side of ICTD research, founder of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov (now USA.gov)<http://www.usa.gov/>, the portal for the US government, and he was founder and Chief Scientist of Inktomi Corporation, now part of Yahoo!

I hope you'll be able to join us.

Thanks, Gaetano