Activity Description: ISI has identified a unique niche market that it believes will translate into a promising business opportunity. In both the U.S. and in Mexico ISI is formalizing agreements with organizations that currently cater to or want to offer products and services to the Latino market. These include hometown community organizations, local and national money transfer, check-cashing and pay-day loan organizations, and local and national convenience store and pharmacy chains. Mexican companies such as Gigante, Elektra and Novamedic are already part of the program.

Activity Description: Adobeterra builds homes and construction blocks for building homes out of adobe, a tradional Mexican clay paste. This building material is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and naturally insulating, but is not usually resistant to weight and humidity.

Now, however, with assistance from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional's Incubation Center for Base Technology Companies (CIEBT), Adobeterra has developed compressed adobe blocks that have the same resistance to weight and humidity as bricks and even concrete, but at 50% of the price and with none of the environmental impact.

Activity Description: The Immunosensor project at the Sustainable Science Insitute (SSI) tailors diagnostic nanotechnology to address the health needs of underserved communities worldwide.

Working at the University of California, Berkeley, SSI is developing its first ImmunoSensor technology which uses a tiny computer chip that can be produced for pennies to detect nano-scale magnetic beads. Such technology will permit the creation of low-cost, rapid, portable and automated diagnostic devices ideal for use in remote and developing regions.

Activity Description: OSS.net, the leading teacher and practitioner of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) - an intelligence gathering discipline based on aggregating information from open sources - is engaged in a new global campaign to deliver tailored open source information to the poor, as a means of empowering them to rise from poverty.

Activity Description: Inveneo designs its systems using off-the-shelf products and technologies. Inveneo integrates and customizes these technologies to match the needs of the users. Inveneo's focus is on system ruggedization, reduction of power consumption, language localization and maintenance simplification. The systems are designed so that many components can be produced or assembled regionally thereby reducing the costs, encouraging the creation of expertise, and supporting regional economic development.

Activity Description: Developed by PEOPLink, CatGen enables a worldwide network of enterprises, handicraft producers, artists, exporters, designers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, and other experts to interact via the Internet. The CatGen platform is an end-to-end e-commerce solution reaching from buyers and consumers in Europe and North America to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and all the way down to the "poorest of the poor," artisan groups and farmer co-operatives in the developing world.

Activity Description: e-Inclusion focuses on creating new technology solutions that will increase HP's revenues and foster economic development in emerging markets and in marginalized communities.