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The Technology Salon is an intimate, informal, and in person, discussion between information and communication technology experts and international development professionals, with a focus on both:

• technology's impact on donor-sponsored technical assistance delivery, and
• private enterprise driven economic development, facilitated by technology.

Our meetings are lively conversations, not boring presentations - PowerPoint is banned and attendance is capped at 15 people - and frank participation with ideas, opinions, and predictions is actively encouraged through our key attributes.

The Technology Salon is sponsored by the UN Foundation's Technology Partnership with the Vodafone Foundation as a way to increase the discussion and dissemination of information and communication technology's role in expanding solutions to long-standing international development challenges.

Recent Activity

• A New ICT4D Paradigm: Women + Mobile Phones + mServices = Economic Development
  While everyone is amazed at the quick proliferation of mobile phones in the developing world, here's a startling statistic which should check our unbridled enthusiasm for m-everything: 73% of women… By Wayan Vota | Comments (0)

• mServices for Women: the Social and Economic Impact of Closing Mobile Phone Gender Gap
  Over 300 million women are being left out of the benefits of mobile phone ownership as it becomes the most ubiquitous technology in the developing world, which has major implications… By Wayan Vota | Comments (0)

• Sorting the Future of SMS4Dev at San Francisco Salon
  Short Message Service (SMS) text messages, which started as a way for Nokia engineers to test mobile phone network operations, has grown into a killer app - for everyone. At… By Wayan Vota | Comments (0)

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