For U.S. companies, going global initially meant developing products in the U.S. and localizing them for European and Japanese markets where local consumers have similar purchasing power.
The American giants have arrived with fat checkbooks and are making sympathetic noises about localizing content, while a number of strong Asian players with big backing are giving them a run for their money.
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is working on a few interesting solutions to the problem of localizing pollution data with a trio of devices aimed at making the process accessible and affordable for regular people.