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The media and international-development advocates can’t stop trumpeting information and communications technology for development (“ICT4D”). But, drawing on his field work in India, Kentaro Toyama argues that cell phones and the Web can take us only so far. Human capacity remains the foundation of economic growth. Joining the debate are Nicholas Negroponte, Rachel Glennerster, and José Gómez-Márquez. Archon Fung moderates.

Can Technology Solve Global Poverty?
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December 2, 2010 at 4 p.m.
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Kentaro Toyama is a researcher at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India.