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Empowering Technologies for the Developing World

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Helping the developing world isn’t as easy as sending money and experts. Local values and customs have to be considered, and ultimately, the community has to become able to guide itself. M. Bernardine Dias is the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s TechBridgeWorld, a group that partners with developing communities to create sustainable technological solutions to problems within those communities.

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