In a time when technology is rapidly changing, the MIT App Inventor provides an excellent example of how to democratize the process of creation.

Google and MIT have released App Inventor for Android today on an open source basis.

The entire setup is controlled using a smartphone application developed in MIT App Inventor, a super-easy way to prototype Android applications.

Back in July 2010, Google announced a nifty educational project called App Inventor. The goal? Give non-programmers a relatively easy way to build their own applications for the Android platform ...

App Inventor — a Google cast-out that is now maintained by MIT — is a graphical tool that unlocks the power of an Android handset to those with the most basic of programming understanding.

MIT has placed its revival of the recently open-sourced App Inventor software from Google into public beta.