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How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems

YoungUpstarts

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Louise Miller graduated from LSE in 2011 with an MA in engineering and is currently setting up her own web design business. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 In fact, 92.5

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. I remember we were trying to translate those documents onto the web as fast as we could, and teach our volunteers how to use them. Weren't you an intern at PARC?

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. Cloud computing or a hosted plan is cost effective for a startup but the dynamics change when a service scales. Technology got better, Im not sure if the buzz words have. Wordpress.com is run from data centers in Chicago and San Antonio.

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. Cloud computing or a hosted plan is cost effective for a startup but the dynamics change when a service scales. Technology got better, Im not sure if the buzz words have. Wordpress.com is run from data centers in Chicago and San Antonio.

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