The other network to note is

Global Health Solutions — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:07:43 -0400

The other network to note is their "Medical Technology for the Next Billion" -- or the Institute for Innovation in Health. They have more granular details on their website: http://iih.mit.edu/

MIT Launches Next Billion Network for Innovative Mobile Technologies

Manuel Bueno — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:08:53 -0400

Our regular NextBillion readers will already know that the MIT is one of the most important universities in the base of the pyramid arena. Some of their most important initiatives are the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, stimulating bottom-up entrepreneurship fueled by innovations, and the Lemelson-MIT Awards, recognizing the impact that inventors can have on economic and social well-being.

In these and other cases, MIT's strategy has been to apply its engineering prowess to try to solve BoP problems in the shape of technologically-adapted inventions.

Now, MIT has launched a Next Billion Network to deploy innovative mobile technologies that can help people reduce friction in their local markets from the bottom up. This approach is based upon the belief (which I share) that mobile phones, by enabling increased connectivity, can offer new opportunities for low-cost, sustainable solutions in the BoP.

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The other network to note is

MIT Launches Next Billion Network for Innovative Mobile Technologies