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Informaticopia (Free subscription) | yesterday
I woke up at 4 a.m. thinking how great it one be to apply the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop (http://laptopgiving.org/en/explore.php) to several ideas. Educating children on health: It already has education as a mission, but I wonder how much of that is devoted to evidence-based health education practices? It uses gaming too, so it could also be adopted by groups such as Games for Health (
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our regular roundup of sci-tech stories from across the web includes: Can One Laptop per Child (OLPC) survive? What does cellphone heaven look like? And who’s watching over American innovation? Let’s kick it off: Space invaders – Computer viruses make it to orbit “A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ahead of the forthcoming distribution of the 5000 laptop computers to primary schools, authorities from the Ministry of Education evaluated the one laptop per child pilot project where 106 laptop computers were given to the Primary Five class of Rwamagana B Primary School in October 2007.
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Bill Kerr (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
I'm hoping for some discussion of Walter's question 22 and the non universals at OLPC News and/or the learning evolves wiki page . Thanks, Christoph
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
This screen-related gem was spotted by the sharp-eyed Michael Harris in the blog of Mary Lou Jepsen, formerly OLPC’s CTO and now running her own tech company, Pixel Qi: "We’ve been a bit quiet in the blog, but have found manufacturers and kicked off development of some new screens that will be ready next year. These [...]
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Tuttle SVC (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Daniel Drake : The most amazing figure is the amount of traffic that comes from Uruguay, a country where we have now delivered 100,000 XO laptops (a recent milestone which hit national media in UY in a big way). Approximately 60% of the wiki traffic originates from Uruguay, 10,000+ visits per day, almost all of which is going to the Activities page. A contact at LATU has confirmed that these visits...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The number of models of "Liliputer" - low-cost ultraportable PCs running Windows or Linux - has exploded to more than 100 in less than a year, according to Liliputing.com , a site put together by the freelance journalist Brad Linder. Since the introduction of the OLPC XO laptop last year, more than a dozen manufacturers have leapt into the space, spotting the potential for sales to children and schools...
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One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
I received an invitation to a cool event the other day and thought this might be of interest to some of you since it looks like a fun way to spend a weekend: "Partly because we're starting to see the fruits of Box2D (an open source 2D physics engine) running on the XO and partly because we just-haven't-had-a-good-one-in-a-while, the OLPC Physics Game Jam competition is being held August 29th-31st,...
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cyrusfarivar.com (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on One Laptop Per Child is/was on Morning Edition today (August 27). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York - 5 am to 9 am Eastern - WNYC - 820 AM - www.wnyc.org Washington, DC - 5 am to 10 am Eastern - [...]
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Serge notes that the OLPC can run with Squeak NOS: Technorati Tags: olpc , squeak , smalltalk
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LAPTOP Magazine Blog (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
When we decided to send 30 XO laptops to the village of Quessoborgo in Mali we were confident that the children would love the laptops, but the teachers were another story. While we worked with the principal of the Primary School Of Ntentou in our plan to donate the laptops, we were aware of the [...]
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
From the moment Nicholas Negroponte showed off his $100 laptop concept at the Davos world economic summit in January 2005, it was as if the tech world's supermoguls were glowering down on him in...
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One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
In August 2008 a small OLPC XO deployment project was started in Russia. A group of Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogic University professors has taught 32 students from Nizhny Novgorod how to use XOs in a summer camp environment. The project was launched in a field facility of Nizhny Novgorod State University in Staraya Pustyn village in Nizhny Novgorod region. XO summer camp... The XOs were used in...
