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On The Cover
The phone lady initiative established a decade ago served as inspiration
for EECS professor Eric Brewer as he envisioned one of the College's
most ambitious endeavors—Information and Communication Technology
for Billions, dubbed ICT4B. With Dean Richard Newton and Tom Kalil,
the team is dedicated to building an infrastructure that offers
people in developing regions new access to technology.
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PHOTO BY NICK LAMMERS
Background photo courtesy Grameen Foundation USA
CORRECTION
Last spring, Forefront
and the worldwide media reported that the December 2003 earthquake
in Bam, Iran, killed 41,000 people. Later, the Iranian government
revised the official death toll to 26,000, explaining there had
been significant error in accounting for people in the chaos that
followed the quake.
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