Knowledge@Wharton expands to rural India, Australia; Penn opens African hospital

Knowledge@Wharton, the bi-weekly web-based business publication of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, has expanded to Australia and rural India.
According to a press release, K@W has published in India since 2006 but will enlist the help of the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal to help cover the country’s rural areas. Despite India’s designation as an “emerging market,” 70 percent of its residents still reside in poorer, rural towns and have become the target market for much of the country’s new commerce.
In Australia, K@W will be partnering with The Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. The new publication will also cover business news in Southeast Asia.
The rural Indian edition is available now, while the Australian edition is due to be released early next year. And all of this expansion news comes on the heels of the University’s recent opening of a hospital in Botswana.

Claiming 1.3 million subscribers, Knowledge@Wharton aims to share the learning of America’s first business school through text articles, podcasts and videos while offering free access to research papers and articles. The publication is currently available in seven editions.
Penn was also in the international spotlight when it was featured in an article in last Sunday’s Inquirer that examined the University’s role in preventing AIDS in Botswana. The University is launching the nation’s first medical school there while sending a rotating batch of 250 medical students, undergrads, doctors and other staff to help the country manage the AIDS epidemic.
As a result, the nation’s rate of mother-to-infant infection has dropped from 40 percent down to six.
With the recently opened hospital in Africa and new Knowledge@Wharton editions, it seems Penn has made recent news on every continent with the exception of Antarctica.
Wait, scratch that.