Editors Note: This article by Alec Ross and Simon Rosenberg, is one of NDN's Series of Modest Proposals to Build 21st Century Skills first published in May 2007. Its introduction is republished here to remind us of an American need for one laptop per child. Read the full article here. USA school kids exploring IT A single global communications network, composed of Internet, mobile, SMS, cable and satellite...
Some friends of mine from college asked the following question about OLPC Afghanistan: Empowering girls' education Greg Mortensen built 200 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan for less than the cost of one cruise missile. In doing so, he has done vastly more to end Islamic fundamentalism than the entire US effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is it enough, C.? No, it isn't enough. Afghanistan needs its...
After the $100 laptop OLPC project, it is the turn of the $80 laptop. You heard me right, this laptop costs only $80 if the video review that follows is to be believed. The $80 laptop branded EasyPC is one of the products rolled out by a Chinese laptop manufacturer - MENQ Group. EasyPC $80 laptop full specifications EasyPC E790 comes with a modest 64MB RAM and 2 GB disk space. While the disk space...
Proper OLPC News meetup style With the OLPC Learning Club DC going to NYC for the Community Summit, its time for us to have an adult-centric XO user group meetup in Washington DC. OLPC News DC Meetup Thursday, November 19, 6:30pm Looking Glass Lounge 3634 Georgia Ave NW One block from the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro [ Map ] Mike Lee and I will be there for sure. We'll have an Xtra Ordinary OS XO's...
Its time for a One Laptop Per Child & Sugar Labs Community Summit in New York City. Key community members from OLPC, Sugar Labs, the OLPC Learning Club are converging in the Big Apple to re-catalyze the NYC-area community and touch off regular meetings again. Time, location and agenda details: Saturday November 21; 1 - 4PM The Church of St Mary the Virgin 3rd Floor Meeting Room, Mission House 133...
Nicholas Negroponte is a living legend in the world of technology. His accomplishments are many, including a co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory and the founder and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child program. Recently, he spoke with Bostonist about a few issues that will be of interest to ResourceShelf readers. Bostonist: Will we [...]
Techvideoblog has a video review of the Menq Easypc E760, an $80 ARM-based laptop that runs Android. From the looks of it, I don't think this is a very good gadget, because it's slow (less powerful than an iPhone 3GS, but of course also a lot cheaper), but I agree with the Techvideo guy: the Easypc is important because it's the vanguard of a likely wave of cheap, ARM-based devices that will very soon...
Google's Chrome OS is launching for download within a week, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports , citing a "reliable" source. Could this be what's been holding back Arrington's still-missing-in-action gadget project , the CrunchPad? If you recall, the CrunchPad project is basically the ideal use for Chrome OS: A very simple Web tablet without the need for old-school desktop apps. If we...
While we may have differencing opinions on OLPC or its benefits, the basic questioning of ICT4E evaluations is compelling. Starting with the simple question of "Do we need assessments?", the November Educational Technology Debate is Assessing ICT4E Evaluations, and we've already started with two compelling positions: Nicholas Negroponte holding electricity ICT in Education Assessments are...
My neighbors and friends on Bainbridge Island remember my active campaigning in December 2007 to get as many people as possible to order a One Laptop Per Child device for their children. Now it's being started up again at Amazon.com but so far you can only buy them for other children in poor countries - not yet for our own children. I hope this changes, but whatever happens am curious to see if folks...
Section: Computers , Mobile Computers , Laptops , Netbooks Despite not hearing much in terms of the OLPC project recently it seems that they are still seeing their fair share of success. According to Walter Bender they have topped one million downloads on Sugar Labs. “I had been meaning to mention that already several weeks ago we exceeded one-million downloads from activities.sugarlabs.org....
One Laptop Per Child has helped another person improve a career. Anne Gentle has used her experience in Book Sprints for OLPC to create Conversation and Community: The Social Web of Documentation. It features last August's pioneering OLPC/Sugar Austin book sprint to create Sugar and XO manuals, that we covered here:OLPC / Sugar - Book Sprint, part I: PreparationsOLPC / Sugar - Book Sprint, Part II:...
The not-for-profit firm says it has ditched ideas for a double-screened netbook e-reader and is focusing attention on a paper-sized, low-voltage, waterproof, indestructible tablet instead
One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its XO netbook while planning to release a & paper-thin& version 3.0 in 2012. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-books, says the nonprofit organization....
BoomingBang, a RPG game, whose release is due till late OCTOBER 09. The BoomingBang project, started by me, Abhishek Indoria, initially, and a friend, was a small deployment. It was started in March 2009, when none of them (us, actually) have heard of OLPC. Back again, in June, 2 XO laptops were requested, and the project was started officially. The basic mission of players is to eliminate all other...
Rwanda - Telecoms Market Overview, Statistics & Forecasts The aftermath of the 1994 genocide and a monopolistic market structure until 2006 have weighed on the Rwandan telecommunications sector, but the country is now rapidly catching up with other markets in Africa. Mobile market penetration is still significantly below the regional average. The country has been slow to liberalise the sector, allowing
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