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...What lurked behind the door has proved shocking. Created in 1999 and managed by 150 volunteers, Channel 2 is the brainchild of an unlikely rebel: soft-spoken, 24-year-old computer consultant Hiroyuki Nishimura. Free to users, the site pulls in a mere $25,000 or so a month in advertising. "I wanted to provide space for people to discuss their interests," he says, adding that he doesn't censor a word. "Helpful or harmful, information is information," he says. "It's not up to us to question the impact or consequences." Nishimura may be forced to tighten up, however...
...traders better get used to it. Although three years of drought have ravished the Dhar countryside and electricity is only a recent phenomenon, the computer project, known as Gyandoot, or Bearer of Knowledge, shows that innovation can thrive among poverty and illiteracy. The $45,000 community-financed project - the brainchild of district collector Rajesh Rajora, who supervises it with Nitesh Vyas, CEO of the local government - strings together villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each...
McKinsey reportedly recommended that HLS refocus its programs on basic educational issues, hire more faculty, revamp its regressive grading system and improve quality of life. The new initiative, the brainchild of HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, addresses the first two of these concerns...
...push for the free distribution of scientific findings is the brainchild of acclaimed researcher at the Sloane-Kettering Institute Harold E. Varmus, who was also a candidate for the Harvard presidency. Helping to organize Varmus' effort are head of Harvard's Department of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner and Stanford Professor Patrick Brown...
...push for the free distribution of scientific findings is the brainchild of acclaimed researcher at the Sloane-Kettering Institute Harold E. Varmus, who was also a candidate for the Harvard presidency. Helping to organize Varmus' effort are head of Harvard's Department of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner and Stanford Professor Patrick Brown...