In order to maximize the return beyond good will, my suggestion is to leverage that captive audience of top business people and investors with a full program of economic development opportunities.
And building a very basic development tool might encourage more people to eventually learn how to program Objective-C, or whatever iPhone apps are coded with in the future, giving the iPhone platform a stronger farm system.
Jonathan Pincus, a senior country economist for the United Nations DevelopmentProgram in Vietnam, says that the real estate boom is largely speculation from people with excess cash.
Aspiritech, a nonprofit Chicago-based company, launched a program to train high-functioning people on the autism spectrum to test software for tech development companies.
Let us ask our allies to join us in a practical program of trade and assistance that fosters economic development through personal incentives to help these people climb from poverty on their own.
In May, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced that it had a new research program under way, aimed at developing an operating system and software development tools for robots.