• Adam Smith Institute Blog
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  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)
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  Note: useful resources
• Group Puts Laptops in Poor Countries
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  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.
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  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
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  Note: Ethiopia digital network development
• if:book: hundred dollar laptops may make good table lamps
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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
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• 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.
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  Note: Useful summary of projects addressing divide issues
• OLPC $100 laptop shown in final form? - Engadget
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  Note: SOme of the posts are worth reading.
• One Laptop per Child
  One Laptop per Child One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a new, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. This initiative was first announced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005.
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• 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.
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• 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
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  Note: Comments on a Seymour speech
• 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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  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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  Note: Notes on Brazil

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