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One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?

Isn’t it ironic that we’re trying to reduce the digital inequality and poverty with ICT, while it is the ICT that caused and augments this digital divide? We’re using technology to solve the problems it has caused…
By ellen sluis on 10/13/09 Comments Off on One Laptop Per Child; Is That Enough?
Negroponte’s OLPC, a Star in Rwanda

Negroponte’s OLPC, a Star in Rwanda

His mother, Jael paid for the laptop in February 2009, but Collin received it in April this year. Collins claims the whole student community at the school right from kindergarten to secondary school got each a laptop. Each pupil...
By Ali Balunywa on 07/30/09 Comments Off on Negroponte’s OLPC, a Star in Rwanda
Gun vs. OLPC Computer

Gun vs. OLPC Computer

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has once again put itself into the eye of the storm. The organization recently released a commercial where we see a child polishing a shoe, a little girl standing on a street corner and...
By Ben White on 12/13/08 Comments Off on Gun vs. OLPC Computer

One Laptop Per Child in the Netherlands

On saturday the 15th of December, the first meeting of the Dutch OLPC grassroots group took place. There were lots of interesting ideas and plans. One of them is trying to get XO’s to the Netherlands in order to...
By Carolien van der Vorst on 12/19/07 2