• Adam Smith Institute Blog
  laptops olpc
  with olpc
  Note: a few interesting remarks of problems involved
• E-readiness assessment: Who is doing what and where? (updated) | bridges.org
  E-readiness assessment: Who is doing what and where? (updated)
  with networks olpc
  Note: useful resources
• Group Puts Laptops in Poor Countries
  laptop olpc summary
  Group Puts Laptops in Poor Countries
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• Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Bridging the digital divide
  Thursday February 17, 2005 The Guardian The British charity Citizens Online has an ambitious goal - they would like all schoolchildren in the UK to have their own laptop by 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) boffins Nicholas Negroponte, Seymour Papert and Joseph Jacobson also share the mantra "one laptop per child", but they have a much more ambitious plan: to provide 100m to 200m laptops to schoolchildren in the developing world by the end of 2006.
  with olpc
  Note: Goog overview from the Guardian
• Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Ethiopia's digital dream
  Ethiopia's digital dream Twenty years ago, Ethiopia was in turmoil. Now there's a new kind of revolution sweeping the land, reports Michael Cross
  with networks olpc
  Note: Ethiopia digital network development
• if:book: hundred dollar laptops may make good table lamps
  olpc laptops
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  Note: snide, but good short commentary
• Laptop
  Building the $100 Laptop A Project to Revolutionize How We Educate the World's Children
  The MIT School of Architecture + Planning is comprised of five main divisions – The Department of Architecture, The Department of Urban Studies and Planning, The Media Laboratory, The Center for Real Estate, The Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
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  Note: Brief but useful summary
• Melissa's Stuff: Digital Divide Projects
  What are we doing? The goals of the research projects and deployments here are to produce appropriate (i.e. useful in daily life) technology at low cost in a way that is both socially and financially sustainable.
  with networks olpc
  Note: Useful summary of projects addressing divide issues
• OLPC $100 laptop shown in final form? - Engadget
  OLPC
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  Note: SOme of the posts are worth reading.
• Phil Windley's Technometria | Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas
  Computer companies in the 1960s thought Moore’s law meant that they’d get higher margins. Web presses are amazing pieces of technology, but when you look at it, you don’t see anything that tells you about how it changes things.
  Organizations Get the IT They Deserve
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  with olpc technology
• PushSamba » Seymour Papert’s Speech at the PUC in Rio (Part I)
  Seymour Papert’s Speech at the PUC in Rio (Part I) Posted on Monday 4 July 2005
  with olpc
  Note: Comments on a Seymour speech
• Technology and development | The real digital divide | Economist.com
  The real digital divide Mar 10th 2005 From The Economist print edition Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective response to the digital divide
  with networks
  Note: cell phones
• Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
  A Hundred-Dollar Laptop for Hungry Minds The MIT Media Lab is working with corporations and governments to turn their vision of a computer for every child into a reality.
  The MIT Media Lab is working with corporations and governments to turn their vision of a computer for every child into a reality.
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  Note: Technology Review article
• The Fonly Institute: Problems with the $100 laptop
  Problems with the $100 laptop Problems with the OLPC approach Lee Felsenstein
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  with olpc
  Note: Good short analysis of the challenges.
• Wired News: Casting a Wider Net in Brazil
  RECIFE, Brazil -- Efforts to connect Brazil to the 21st century continue in earnest as governments and non-governmental organizations endeavor to provide Internet access to poor and rural areas.
  Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com.
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  with networks olpc
  Note: Notes on Brazil

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