Emergence in Innovations

[Jan Herder]

This is an excellent example of an emergent use of technology and attitude waiting for the BoP to get on board:

From Inventor Shawn Frayne

from :http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010063.html

"The opinion I have, and the opinion of the others that I work with, is that there’s a huge untapped brain resource in developing countries. When designers or inventors have a different set of constraints, and they’re clever, there’s going to be great inventions and innovations that come out of those people. We’re just looking to link the risk that is required to do sort of revolutionary invention and design with some sort of reward. Some people do invent altruistically, but they're not free to do that if their family’s starving. You need some way to link that risk with reward. That’s part of what we’re trying to prove through Humdinger; we’re trying to create a billion-dollar business that will give this whole idea some chops, and then go from there."

Make sure you read the article and see some of what is going on. My question to this forum is: how do you create the "preferred state" that nurtures innovation? Telecenters can do it. But how? Curious for your input--many thanks!

Jan