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February 2, 2010 by Dave Tait
  • "it’s important to realize that people living in poverty value quality design. Quality design doesn’t mean that goods and services need to cost more."
    (tags: bop_design)
  • Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu, the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007.

    Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials and other educational content, from a variety of content providers, directly to mobile phones.

    (tags: nokia_edu)

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February 1, 2010 by Dave Tait
  • Nearly 20 students from China are working with Stanford students at the d.school this week as part of the Cross-Cultural Design class.

    The class kicks off with a workshop here at Stanford this week, then Stanford students will travel to Peking University in Beijing for a second workshop during spring break. This is the second year the class has been offered, and it has expanded to include students from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, one of the oldest and most respected fine arts schools in China.

  • "I believe it represents a fundamental shift in the metaphors of computing, as significant as the move from text to graphical interfaces."

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