Freedom for IP
Freedom for IP: Ignite Seattle Video —– this is a good presentation about intellectual freedom, the the freedom to create and innovate.
Read MoreThis note’s for you » One Laptop Per Child?
I am reading more and more about that OLPC thingy. I’m asking myself, who needs this? Who has thought out this crap? In my opinion and experience as father, the last thing that a child needs is a laptop (with my definition of a child beeing <= 10 years old).Sorry folks, I don’t get this. […]
Read MoreOur Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences
The ACLS is pleased to announce that “Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences” was released December 13, 2006. In 2004, ACLS appointed the Commission and charged it to recommend how the humanities and social sciences could develop online research […]
Read MoreAfrican Foldaway House
African Foldaway House: Rajan Harinarain, a South African entrepreneur and inventor has come up with a temporary foldaway house for use in emergency situations complete with electrical wiring and fittings, doors and windows that can be erected by a small team in 5 minutes. The patented structure weighs less than a ton, collapses to under […]
Read MoreHave Laptop, Will Learn?
Have Laptop, Will Learn?: So, if this project is a huge success and actually causes some global reconceptualization of what learning is all about, it could have a positive impact on libraries. On the other hand, having Intel, Microsoft, and the worldwide education establishment poo-poohing your initiative is, as we used to say in Iowa, […]
Read MoreThailand Nixes One Laptop Per Child
Thailand Nixes One Laptop Per Child: A September coup effectively ended the career of Thaksin Shinawatra, the Thai prime minister whose cabinet had pledged to buy 250,000 of Mr. Negroponte’s $100 laptops, according to The Nation, a Bangkok newspaper. Thailand’s new administration now says it has no interest in the project, which would have provided […]
Read MoreDoom on the $100 Laptop
Doom on the $100 Laptop: Who needs textbooks when it’ll run Doom? Engineers from the One Laptop Per Child Project have posted videos of themselves playing the videogame Doom on the new children’s laptop. Up next: the Darfur game? ======== had to see this coming…. from education project to edutainment project to…..
Read MoreOne Laptop per Child category
I made a new category and re-categorized my one laptop per child posts so that people can find them. In general, I am against the principles of OLPC on many grounds, mostly to do with lack of technical support, educational purpose, and the general lack of awareness or outright willful dismissing of prior work in […]
Read MoreA $100 laptop prototype for $150 | CNET News.com
A $100 laptop prototype for $150 | CNET News.com: The One Laptop per Child project on Thursday showed off the latest prototype of what’s widely known as the $100 laptop for school children in developing nations. The only hitch is that the computer costs $150 to make. Walter Bender, president of software for the Massachusetts-based […]
Read MoreThe $100 laptop: What went wrong – MSN Money
The $100 laptop: What went wrong – MSN Money: Anyway, in general a free computer to everyone on the planet it interesting. The tool is cool. And there are many massively problematic issues involved. But that’s interesting is that this article is publishe din MSN Money. MSN isn’t part of this. I’ve read the M$ […]
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