Authors: Kentaro Toyama
Geek Heresy (60 page)
Mainstreaming technology,
40
Management,
44–46
,
205
.
See also
Leaders
Mangalyaan
spacecraft,
177
Marini, Nina,
125
Marshmallow study,
173
,
252(n15)
Maslow, Abraham,
162–163
,
181
,
260(n20)
,
261–262(n28)
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,
162–168
,
180–181
,
186
,
261(nn24
,
25)
,
262(n29)
,
262(n35)
,
268(n27)
,
270(n43)
Mass marketing of books,
74–77
Mass media.
See
Radio
;
Television
The Matrix
(film),
54
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS),
113
McFerrin, Bobby,
91
McGonigal, Jane,
115
Measurement, fetish of,
91–95
Memorabilia
(Xenophon),
209
Menon, Geeta,
17
Mentorship
aspirations,
199–201
building the relationship,
197–199
business,
205
corruption,
198
,
202
,
271–272(n12)
difference from other approaches,
198
,
202–203
,
205
hope,
271(n9)
incentives,
272(n15)
intrinsic growth,
201–202
moral responsibility for outcomes,
271(n11)
multilevel application,
208–209
packaged interventions and,
206–208
teaching as,
202–203
time commitment,
203–204
youth development,
272(n16)
See also
Education and training
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
(Thompson),
75–76
Meritocracy,
79
,
93
,
96
,
97–98
,
181
Mexico: for-profit microlending,
58–60
,
66–67
,
236(n7)
Microcredit
alternatives to,
57–60
beneficiary demographics,
61
evaluation of,
59–61
,
236–237(n14)
financial education,
124
global spending on,
72
importance of implementation,
61
,
66–72
packaged intervention,
57–61
,
66–72
India’s failed institutions,
236(n7)
India’s self-help groups,
196
leaders, implementers, and beneficiaries,
66–68
Microfinance Information Exchange,
72
Microsoft Corporation,
xi–xiv
,
4
,
7
,
44
,
114
,
159–160
,
162
,
164
,
166
,
183–184
,
227(n2)
Microsoft Research India,
xiv
,
3–7
,
17–20
,
27–29
,
31–32
,
103–109
,
122–125
,
141–142
,
183–184
,
188–189
,
227(n6)
,
247(n9)
Miguel, Ted,
143–144
Mill, John Stuart,
88
Mischel, Walter,
173
,
251–252(n15)
Mitra, Sugata,
11–12
,
125
,
228(n24)
Mobile phones
Arab Spring,
33
aspirational consumption,
200–201
digital divide,
234(n24)
international development,
ix–xi
,
25
,
28
,
37
,
49
,
69
,
91
,
108
,
110
,
209
,
234(n24)
interpersonal communication,
29
,
40–41
micro-entrepreneurs,
28
saving the world with,
ix–xi
,
91
,
110
,
234(n24)
unintended consequences of technology,
56
See also
M-PESA transfer system
Modernization,
174–188
aspirations and,
178–182
mass values,
179–182
process of,
178
,
266–267(n11)
United States,
177–178
See also
Economics
;
International development
Money transfer systems,
108
,
247(n12)
Moral relativism,
97
,
169
,
263–264(n44)
Moral self-licensing,
86
,
243(n34)
Morozov, Evgeny,
23
,
35–36
,
214
,
236(n1)
Morsi, Mohamed,
62
Motivation,
90
,
126–129
,
162–164
,
259(n6)
.
See also
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
M–PESA transfer system,
108
,
247(n12)
Mubarak, Hosni,
37
MultiPoint,
4–5
,
15–16
,
29–30
,
227(n2)
Mumford, Lewis,
37
Murphy, Tim,
42
Music
advantages of learning,
192–193
,
208
distraction of,
119
,
123
,
231(n25)
Law of Amplification,
38–40
marketing,
233(n1)
Shanti Bhavan curriculum,
141
shrinking middle,
76
Venezuela’s El Sistema,
193–194
,
207–208
,
270(n2)
,
273(n23)
See also
Walkman, Sony
Mycoskie, Blake,
84–87
,
243(n31)
The Myth of the Machine
(Mumford),
37
Nakkalbande, Bangalore, India,
17–19
Narasimha (cab driver),
174–177
,
188
Narcissism,
166
,
262(n34)
,
275(n4)
National development.
See
Development
.
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA),
112–114
National Security Agency (NSA),
52
Negroponte, Nicholas,
5
,
11
,
21
,
64
,
227(n4)
,
238(n26)
.
See also
One Laptop Per Child
Nehru, Jawaharlal,
183
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
(Morozov),
23
,
35–36
The New Argonauts
(Saxenian),
183
The New Digital Age
(Schmidt and Cohen),
21
,
229(n5)
Nigeria: path to democracy,
62–63
1984
(Orwell),
51
Niyizonkiza, Deogratias,
207
.
See also
Village Health Works
Nonprofit organizations
Development Alternatives organization,
199
Innovations for Poverty Action,
212
,
223
Seva Mandir,
77–82
,
223
,
240–241(n14)
,
240(n10)
Stree Jagruti Samiti,
17–18
Technology Access Foundation,
114–119
,
162
,
224
See also
Ashesi University
;
Digital Green
;
Mentorship
;
Pradan organization
;
Shanti Bhavan school
Norris, Pippa,
181
Northwest School, Seattle, Washington,
119–121
Norway
development assistance,
190
resource curse and Dutch disease,
259(n10)
Nuclear plant disaster,
235(n29)
Numeracy,
27–28
Nussbaum, Martha,
274–275(n4)
Olojede, Dele,
63
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program,
5
,
8
,
15
,
48
,
64–65
,
227(n4)
,
227(n10)
,
238(n26)
Opportunity, rhetoric of,
ix–xii
,
71
,
170
,
Opportunity International,
71
Packaged interventions
abstract ideas and institutional structures as,
62–63
alternative terminology,
236(n1)
amplifying human forces,
57
,
66–68
,
273–274(n25)
attempts to bypass curse of,
77–92
critical complement to,
66–68
,
70–73
,
111–112
,
124
,
206–208
cynicism,
247(n14)
defining,
57
elections as,
62–63
excluded actions and programs,
70–73
expenditures,
72
failure to explain global social change,
179
heart, mind, and will qualities,
111–112
