Started 15 years ago by Roy Megarry, 65, the former publisher of Canada's prestigious Globe & Mail newspaper, Tools for Development has a simple but powerful premise: Make secondhand equipment available to poor entrepreneurs at an affordable price.
Then in 2004, he started volunteering as a developer for the Tor Project, the prestigious organisation behind the anonymity tool regarded as one of the crown jewels of the information security community.
Started 15 years ago by Roy Megarry, 65, former publisher of Canada's prestigious Globe & Mail newspaper, Tools for Development has a simple but powerful premise: Make secondhand equipment available to poor entrepreneurs at an affordable price.
As always, there are plenty of ambitious economists with prestigious PhD's eager to use the tools of their trade to justify this charade.
Or the tool could be a four-color display ad in a prestigious publication or inclusion of the home in an opulent catalogue.
Financial aid has long been recognized as the tool that makes it possible for many students to attend prestigious private institutions like Duke.
Off on another busman's holiday in Aaron Elkins's SKELETON DANCE (Morrow, $23), the forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver stumbles on a bundle of bones that has archaeologists at France's prestigious Institut de Prehistoire clobbering one another with whatever Paleolithic hand tools are within reach.
They clarify that technologies are fundamental tools, but management processes have even bigger relevance, as also prestigious international magazines dossier clearly explained recently.
The coiled grass basket, which began as a humble tool of rice production, is now recognized as the oldest and most prestigious emblem of African American culture in the nation.
With a sizable cash endowment, the Draper Prize has come to be considered one of the most prestigious awards for engineering in the world, and its presentation is considered to be a valuable tool for improving the public's understanding of engineering and technology.
