Microsoft offers downloads of its seven page white paper Microsoft Unlimited Potential: Enabling Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next Five Billion People.

Through a combination of advanced technologies and strong partnerships with governments, partners, NGOs, educators and academics, Microsoft Unlimited Potential takes an innovative approach to help enable new avenues of social and economic empowerment for the majority of the world’s population.

Built on principles of relevance, access and affordability, the initiative is focused on delivering solutions in three key, interrelated areas that are foundational drivers of economic opportunity: transforming education, fostering local innovation, and creating jobs and opportunities.

Wow! These ideas could influence all of us sooner than we think. Maybe it already is influencing us. At the very least, this paper outlines what may be the grandest social policy and practice planning ever. What do you think comes next?

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