Archive for the 'Just Thought You Should Know' Category

Education – Empowering the Poor

Can Meena Build An Indian Google? is a great article posted on TechCrunch.  Roshni helps young girls from the slums in India realize their dreams of an education in technology despite obstacles most of us cannot even imagine if we wanted to.  Some of you may remember that in my book I spoke about how […]

Windmill Prodigy

Thanks to Wired Science, I learned of a 14 year old boy in a remote African village who should be an inspiration for all of us. William Kamkwamba noted the wind in Malawi and thought he could rig something up to power a light to read by. This boy, who had been forced to drop […]