Development Gateway Foundation

from its website:

The Development Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. We help improve people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships and information systems that provide access to knowledge for development.

We exploit powerful and affordable information and communication technologies (ICT) that were previously unavailable to:

• Increase knowledge sharing;
• Enable aid effectiveness;
• Improve public sector transparency; and
• Build local capacity to empower communities.

The Development Gateway is an independent not-for-profit organization. It was conceived by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and initially developed in the World Bank. Operations began in July 2001.

9:06:33 PM    

Sun Co-founder inspires Google to incorporate:

here us an interesting quote from the following article:

'Bechtolsheim also has made some savvy investments of his own. He was an early investor in Google, where he wrote out a check for $100,000 to the two founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page in 1998 at an investor meeting. He made the check out to Google, and since no entity yet existed, it forced Brin and Page to set up the company in order to cash his check. '

Sun co-founder to leave Cisco post (SiliconValley.com). SiliconValley.com - Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems who ended up at Cisco Systems when it bought his second company, is leaving the networking giant today to start another firm. [Yahoo! News - Technology]

10:34:42 AM    

Java card support will be built into the desktop that we offer. It is the fundamental way we will help people to understand that if there were a menu item in your mail app that said, 'Show only mail from people that have been strongly authenticated,' then spam would disappear. 'Show me only content that has been strongly authenticated,' viruses would disappear.

10:31:58 AM