Prof. Alex (Sandy) PentlandFounding Director

Media Lab Asia MIT Media Laboratory

Global Partnerships

The Opportunity:

The next generation of new technologies…

….will be shaped by the needs of six billion people

Developing Nations Opportunity:

New products for the billions entering the world markets

Leadership in these new, emerging IT and biotech industries

Making `IT for the Masses’ a reality

Digital Nations

India (Government of India)Mexico (TelMex) Brazil (Banco Bradesco)Central American States (INCAE)Panama (Government of Panama)(Honduras, Bolivia, Columbia)USA (NSF)Denmark (Government of Denmark)Ireland (Government of Ireland)

The Media Lab Asia What: A network of national laboratories dedicated

to bringing the benefits of emerging technologies to the masses

Goal: Enable US$1B investment in innovative rural infrastructure and services leveraging $200M Government of India seed funding

Founder / Director: Alex (Sandy) Pentland

TOMORROWS

TOOLS

WORLD COMPUTER

BITS FOR ALL

….

DIGITALVILLAGE

Research Area #1: BITS FOR ALL

Mobile wireless network for rural communities that provides information and communication services to an entire community

HousesSchools

City Hall

Rural Clinic

Small business

INTERNET LINCOS Container

City

Hall

11 Mbps 11 Mbps256 Kbps

(M.L. Best, L. Burnes, M. Escobedo & H. Shakeel, forthcoming)

Ad Hoc Wi-Fi NetworksHuman-Scale Paintable Computers

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Internet at $0.01/user www.media.mit.edu/~amir/daknet

TOMORROWS

TOOLS

WORLD COMPUTER

BITS FOR ALL

….

DIGITALVILLAGE

Area #2: TOMMORROWS TOOLS

$50 UV-VIS spectrometer for measuring contaminents

$50 complex RF impedanceanalyzer for assayingmaterial composition

OPTICAL SENSING USING A POROUS SILICON MICROCAVITY DESIGN

BIOSENSOR DESIGN

PSi Multilayer Mirror

PSi Multilayer Mirror

PSi Central Layer

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CENTER FOR FUTURE HEALTH

TOMORROWS

TOOLS

WORLD COMPUTER

BITS FOR ALL

….

DIGITALVILLAGE

Area #3: WORLD COMPUTER

NanotecticsBrent Ridley, Babak Nivi, and Joseph Jacobson,

All-Inorganic Field Effect Transistors Fabricated by Printing,Science (286) 746, 1999

TOMORROWS

TOOLS

WORLD COMPUTER

BITS FOR ALL

….

DIGITALVILLAGE

Research Area #4: DIGITAL VILLAGE

LINCOS Village Centerswww.lincos.net

More Information

http://www.medialabasia.org

http://www.media.mit.edu/dn

http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland

Baatchit Village Centerswww.jiva.org/outreach/baatchit

Computer Clubhouseswww.computerclubhouse.org