__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 23 April 2007 05:28 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Debate widens over over deploying computers in the developing world
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
>> | Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
>> | the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
>> | nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child, which is focusing
>> | on the 1.2 billion children in the developing world.
>> `---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/28/business/cheap.php
>
> Well naturally Intel and Microsoft want to monopolise the third-world
> market, but at their prices, they don't stand a chance. Game over.
Let the children vote (lots of photos).
Kids In Jiri Love XO [One Laptop per Child]!
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| All in all, the day was a huge success and another significant step
| in raising awareness of XO and just how valuable it can and will
| be to the children of Nepal!
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http://olpcnepal.blogspot.com/2007/04/kids-in-jiri-love-xo.html
The XO in the Real World
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| Some of the children were able to make it to the congress, walking
| around the showroom with their XO's and showing attendees what they
| liked best about the laptop.
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http://www.j5live.com/?p=357
Nigerian students power up their laptops
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| Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per
| Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the
| last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school
| 10 miles outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to deploy the company's
| first child-friendly laptops in the region.
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http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6175025-1.html?part=rss&tag=6175025&subj=news
Here is what happens when you do this the wrong way (funny article):
Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software
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| Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
| power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
| all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
| my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
| the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
| screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254
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