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After the Egyptian government cracked down on citizens using the Internet in 2011, Huslage was again inspired, and he started Tethr, a company that makes shoe-box-size open-source hardware and software to get people on the phone and online from anywhere in the world.

Tethr has the hardware necessary to connect to the net via satellite modem, Wi-Fi, 3G, ethernet, and even dial-up.

CoinLab, co-founded by Seattle entrepreneurs Peter Vessenes and Mike Koss, normally works with game developers.

Excellent post on Innovation and Development by Heather

"I realize that innovation is a sticky wicket for institutions like the UN who have a high bar of accountability. At the very heart of innovation is failure. Failure is something that isn’t tolerated but how can there be a space where failure is safe and accepted. Innovation isn’t a linear thing.

""The background of this is that the technology industry makes tools or toys for rich people. By rich people, I don’t necessarily mean rich in the U.S. context, but in the global context, absolutely. If you make software or computers or smartphones, you are going for people in the developed world, especially on a global scale, who are tremendously wealthy.