Leo Burd, from Microsoft, is newly graduated from the MIT Media Lab. Before entering MIT, he ran a community computer center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A critical question for him was how a small room with twenty computers could ever impact one of the largest cities in the world with thousands of slums. He carried this interest of community empowerment into action-based research for his thesis work. This afternoon, he shared his projects with us. (more…)
