Open source package passes personal learning test

In the world of education, technology plays an ever-increasing role in student management and other administrative tasks. Teachers all over the world are using an open source GPL-licensed course management system called LON-CAPA, and the result are "revitalizing," "unique," and "creative," according to some of its users.

Hacking the Roomba

Two MIT grads and a professor took simple materials and rules and came up with the first autonomous robot to become a household phenomenon in the United States, the Roomba.

The poor need empowerment

"What do the poor in India need most? Not subsidies that they never benefit from anyway, not hand-outs which rarely reach them or more government schemes when the existing ones have fallen by the wayside.

They need to be empowered to be economically self-reliant.

Players who get into microfinance without a social vision may well bring in unethical practices. To ensure that rogue practices are spotlighted and curbed, SKS Microfinance has worked with the industry network to develop a Microfinance Code of Conduct."