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School laptops in Nigeria – Microsoft or Linux?
The Nigerian government has finalised a plan to make 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs available to school children. The project then took some strange twists and turns regarding the operating system for the laptops to run on. A strange series of … Continue reading
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ITU and Microsoft announce data visualisation project
At the recently concluded “Connect Africa” the ITU announced a partnership with Microsoft to produce ITU Global View, an online platform for tracking ICT development. It will be based on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and will allow for visual representation of … Continue reading
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Knowledge? Which knowledge?
I’ve just come across a paper written by Marcus Foth, Nancy Odendaal and Greg Hearn, titled “The View from Everywhere: Towards an Epistemology for Urbanites.” I found it a fascinating read because it echoes so many of my own thoughts … Continue reading
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Googling the MDGs – some interesting trends
I recently conducted a very simple experiment. It is by no means a model of academic rigor, but interesting nonetheless. I conducted a search on Google Scholar of “Millennium Development Goals” for a few specific years. The results hint at … Continue reading
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The OLPC laptop – educational tool, technical revolution or both?
As distribution of the OLPC project’s XO laptop nears, has the shift of attention from the educational aspects of the project to the technical aspects injured the project? When Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab started talking about their plans … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Leapfrogging development
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What does Bono know about “aid” – and what is “aid” anyway?
Several weeks ago I had planned to post about a two year old interview that I came across with Kenyan economist James Shikwati that apeared in Der Spiegel. I don’t remember how I came across that interview, but apparently others … Continue reading
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