If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there are now new ways of mobilising knowledge that weren't there before. There are real bodies of significant knowledge on the web that are valuable that we haven't done nearly enough with.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

It is really a wonderful thing. And as more people adapt to it, it's going to be a bigger thing.

I don’t create controversies. They’re there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.