Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.