Out of context--what a very useful idea.
Solar home lighting, foot-driven water pumps for crop irrigation, bicycles
for transport of products to market: all these seem to fit comfortably into
the context of village life in Ghana.
OLPC, not so much. Here are schoolchildren whose mothers can't
I think quite frankly in the developing world where I was brought up and come
from
an OLPC is not the first need,
it is not the second,
it is not the third,
nor the fourth
need nor the 10th most important need!
Business people want to sell and still have their heads in the sand that a
parent
Hello Joel,
I think you misunderstood me. I was only asking for clarifications of the
differences between the term 'community computers' vs. telecenters. If you read
any of my previous posts you would understand that I am not supporter of OLPC.
To my understanding 'community computers' is no
Can someone inform me whether this OLPC has been abandoned by MIT or
what's the current progress now.
Terimakasih dan Salam Sejahtera,
--
Md Rusli Haji Ahmad
Director
Universal Service Provision Div.
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Mark writes,
The role of ICTs in education is
thus much more natural and compelling than that of radio, television,
and film. I would suggest that attempts to generalize a ceiling
effect for the long-term role of ICTs in schools based on prior
educational technology research on the
This is the ultimate 'digital divide'---
Teletruth News: New Report and Survey. September 23, 2008 (Contact info
below)
New Study and Real-World Testing of Over-the-Air Television (OTA) viewers:
To read the report: http://www.newnetworks.com/dtvreport.htm
DTV Digital Tornado to Hit
Hi Steve
You are right, there are transitions and there are different models. What might
be appropriate today in Ghana might be different, today in the US. The approach
of education planners is to want to eventually find the one global model. Yet
with technology, as you suggest, there are
Dear Colleagues,
The Information and Communication Technologies Association of Malawi (ICTAM) in
collaboration with The Royal Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH) and The Open
Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) will host the 6th International
Conference on Open Access at
Charbonneau, Deborah H. (Ed.). (2008). Global information inequalities:
Bridging the information gap. Oxford: Chandos Publishing (Oxford)
Limited.
The disparity in access to information is a worldwide phenomenon. Global
Information Inequalities offers a captivating look into problems of
As everyone on this list knows, online collaboration is transforming the way
we work together, motivating researchers to look at emerging practices. The
forthcoming IGI publication, a Handbook of Research on Electronic
Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, presents a diverse collection of
Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote:
The problem of context has dogged Western-driven development since the
1950s, and brought the demise of many expensive projects. I guess that's why
the World Bank finally started hiring anthropologists in the 1980s--to get
some folks with the ability to see and
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