Former Amazon exec wants to give free e-books ‘to every child on the planet’

Worldreader launches a new mobile program that makes thousands of books available to people in the developing world through their low-end feature phones.

Tech companies could make billions by serving the ‘next billion’

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a public-private partnership to expand internet access in the developing world, during her final press conference.

This $5 lamp is powered by gravity (and just destroyed its funding target on Indiegogo)

It may sound like an impossible dream, but two designers in London have built functioning prototypes of GravityLight, a cheap way for people in developing countries t0 light homes, recharge batteries, or power a radio.

eCommerce: 16,000 interviews in 16 countries show developing nations are more digital than us

Secure in our digital enclaves with high-speed WIFI powering smart TVs, smartphones, smart appliances, and even smart toilets, we tend to think we’re pretty technologically sophisticated in the Western world. Which just goes to show how easily we are being …