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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My current business trip started by heading for Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was easier to say yes than usual: I'd never been to Dubai or the region, and the government of Dubai and Emirates airline offered to fly me there business class! Flying down the Persian Gulf, alongside Iran's coast, we arrived in Dubai.

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Seeing the United Arab Emirates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Summit pulled together experts on roughly seventy different topics to discuss the current and future state of major issue areas: areas as varied as water, mining, nanotechnology, governance, economic development, economic meltdown (kidding) and so on.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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