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- Welcome Nicholas, to the world of unintended consequences
- When the IBM PC was introduced to the public, in 1981, it sold for around $2500. By 2000, the cost was down to around $1500, and today, you can get a decent PC for under $500.Several years ago, Steve Balmer hinted at the possibility of a $100 PC geared...
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain't so!
- Yahoo News reported yesterday that the OLPC One Laptop Per Child and at once the darling and the redheaded stepchild of the IT and academic communities, will most likely now cost $175 instead of the $100 originally projected. More significantly, though, Nicholas Negroponte disclosed that the small laptop to...
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department
- Sure, the digital divide still exists here in the states. It took nearly an act of congress to get my high school moved into the 21st century and were busily updating our curriculum to make use of the new technology. However, in reality, about 3 quarters of US...
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Russians bring net to distant regions
- Connecting Russian schools to the Internet cannot be easy in a country as large as Russia, but that is the mandate of the national project simply called "Education", reports the Itar-Tass News Agency Connecting Russan schools, especially in extremely remote areas, has exceeded expectations, according to the Ministry...
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- e-Rate at 10: Irregularities stopped, Digital Divide progress made
- A new report on the efficacy of the federal e-Rate program - the scandal-ridden $2.25 billion program that provides discounts of telecommunications services, Internet access and internal networking to low-income public and private schools and public libraries - has been successful in boosting communications tools to support student achievement, reports...
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Digital collaboration tools for teachers worldwide
- Collecting and disseminating information is often the province of developed countries, but Teachers Without Borders hopes to bridge the Digital Divide by allowing educators worldwide to share information and teaching materials, reports All American Patriots. The organization will offer a software suite, TWB Tools, which covers a lot...
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Stanford sophomore brings tech to Jamaican teens
- Its amazing what bit of youthful zeal and naivete can do. Stanford student Anders Jones has launched a multi-million dollar nonprofit which supplies public schools on the island nation of Jamaica with computers - and hes only a sophomore, reports the Stanford Daily. Anders Jones got the idea for...
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- UK push for universal access to Internet
- The British government all students to have access to the Internet outside of school, schools minister Jim Knight proclaimed recently, reports ZD Net UK. Knight, speaking at the BETT educational technology show in London on Wednesday, said that a taskforce including Dell, Intel and RIM was being...
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Want one of Negroponte's laptops? Buy two and you can have one
- Arent those OLPC laptops so cool? Dont you wish you could get your hands on without having to move to a developing country? Well, now you can buy, not one but two nifty laptops, according to the BBC News. Although the focus of the One Laptop Per Child project...
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- One Laptop project: A key breakthrough or just an 'easy fix'?
- With One Laptop Per Child slated to ship millions of child-friendly computers off to developing countries soon, The Christian Science Monitor questions whether this will be a helping hand out of poverty or another technological boondoggle. The hallowed halls of USAID are filled with new inventions to help developing...
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Soon, children will get one laptop each
- After much ado, the One Laptop per Child project has announced that its $150 laptops in the hands of people in developing countries by July 2007, reports the BBC. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand are the first countries slated to receive the brightly colored laptops, now...
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Intel's World Ahead Initiative making changes in one school
- Poverty and AIDS plague South Africa - but a bold move by chip manufacturer Intel and its World Ahead Initiative is underway to help the next generation of Africans out of poverty and into the digital world, reports AllAfrica.com The $1 billion dollar plan is to train and educate...
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Macedonia announces bold plan for PC access, training
- The government of Macedonia has recently announced a massive four-prong approach to beefing up computer literacy, reports MPT Online. The Macedonian government intends all primary and secondary students to have a computer within the next two years. Through a program of computer purchasing, training, Internet access and scholarships...
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Intel offering Brazil a $400 laptop
- There is a newcomer in the race to bridge the digital divide in Brazil. Intel is donating $400 laptops to Brazils government, directly competing with the One Laptop Per Child project OLPC, reports the Associated Press. Intel will donate 700 to 800 Classmate PCs for a government evaluation...
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- That one laptop is now running $150
- The now infamous $100 laptop of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC has just gotten a dubious promotion to $150, but is slated to ship out in 2007, reports News.com The prototype laptop was shown off this week at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, held...
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Intel to teach tech in rural China
- Intel recently forged an agreement with Chinas Ministry of Education to train teachers in rural areas in how to teach technology in rural schools, reports The Standard. The agreement states that Intel will donate more than 10,000 personal computers to rural schools by 2008 and help train one million...
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
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- Too much hype over Skype?
- Too much hype over Skype?Message has been deleted.well-balanced reportingthis article about skype is a model of well-balanced reporting -- spotlighting all the strengths and drawbacks of a service. i, too, am enamored about skype, but have had my fair share of disappointments. for those who might be interested, here's an...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-11
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