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Charity laptop in Rwandan school
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| Rory Cellan-Jones visits a school in Kigali where children are
| using computers supplied by the One Laptop Per Child project.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8268301.stm
Laptops for all
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| FOR the past year the pupils of Escuela 95, in a poor
| neighbourhood of Montevideo, have had a new learning tool. Each
| has been issued with a laptop computer. This has been of
| particular help to the 30 or so children with severe learning
| difficulties, says Elias Portugal, a special-needs teacher at the
| school. Before, he struggled to give them individual attention.
| Now, the laptops are helping them with basic language skills. âThe
| machines capture the kidsâ attention. They can type a word and the
| computer pronounces it,â he says.
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http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609
Recent:
Can a laptop change the world?
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| Rwanda has now ordered more than 100,000 XO laptops and plans
| to roll them out to as many schools as possible, with part of
| the funding coming from the sale of mobile phone licences.
| Finally, OLPC has found an African country which appears to be
| committed to going beyond a pilot and making the laptops an
| integral part of its education system
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html
OLPC gets microwaved, molded into stunning piece of art
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| Kenny Irwin, known for his post-microwave creations, decided
| to zap one of the low-cost PCs and then mold it into the
| OLPCSlug while things were still gooey, all in the name of
| good publicity and charity. You see, the buyer of this lovely
| piece will see 80 percent of the proceeds head straight to
| OLPC...
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/18/olpc-gets-microwaved-molded-into-stunning-piece-of-art/
A new OLPC deployment in Nigeria
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| Earlier this month, I found myself embarking on a last-minute
| journey to a One Laptop per Child workshop in Port Harcourt,
| Nigeria. They are preparing for a 6000 XO laptop deployment in
| that region of the country. I attended to support the 5-day
| event, which was coordinated by Michael Tempel and Claudia
| Urrea.
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http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2009/09/a-new-olpc-deployment-in-nigeria/
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