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Category Archives: ICTs
Recommendations from whom?
Last summer, Craig R. Barrett, chairman of UN GAID and chairman of the board of Intel Corp., issued a list of “Recommendations from the UN GAID Chairman”. A couple of the recommendations are worthy of a slightly raised eyebrow, and … Continue reading
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The OLPC is child’s play
The BBC News website has a great story about a child’s first experience with the OLPC laptop. Reminds me of my family’s first home computer when I was at the tender age of 11-12. That was almost 30 years ago … Continue reading
SimCity on the OLPC laptop
Update: I didn’t dig deep enough to see what was really meant concerning constructionism and SimCity – see here – makes more sense now. Game producer Electronic Arts has donated the original SimCity to the OLPC project (read more here). … Continue reading
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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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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
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