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Technology for developing regions: Moore's law is not enough

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 45, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1735971.1736021

Published: 13 March 2010 Publication History

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The historic focus of development has rightfully been on macroeconomics and good governance, but technology has an increasingly large role to play. In this talk, I review several novel technologies that we have deployed in India and Africa, and discuss the challenges and opportunities of this new subfield of EECS research. Working with the Aravind Eye Hospital, we are currently supporting doctor / patient videoconferencing in 30+ rural villages; more than 25,000 people have had their blindness cured due to these exams.

Although Moore's Law has led to great cost reductions and thus enabled new technologies, we have reached essentially the low point for cost: the computing is essentially free compared to the rest of the system. The premium is thus on a combination of 1) deeper integration (fewer compo-nents), 2) shared usage models (even phones are shared), and 3) lower operating costs in terms of power and connectivity.

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Technology for developing regions: Moore's law is not enough
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
        Web conferencing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 45, Issue 3

ASPLOS '10

March 2010

399 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/1735971

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ASPLOS XV: Proceedings of the fifteenth International Conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
March 2010
422 pages
ISBN:9781605588391
DOI:10.1145/1736020
General Chair:
James C. Hoe
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Program Chair:
Vikram S. Adve
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 13 March 2010

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