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Subject: Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Apology for not able to write perfect and coherentEnglish. Sorry, but here
is what I wrote again:
NO ... 1st world
NO ... 1st world tools can solve 3rd world problems ...
Cindy
I guess that rules out your idea of using TVs! :-)
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Sabi ni Cindy noong Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:58:25 + (GMT):
In my opinion, if anyone wishes to, they can turn the TV termnal into a
very useful interactive tool. IF one can use TV monitor to play games,
why can it not use the same TV monitor and turn it into a computer
screen? What
Hi Cindy,
Just to make the point that the TV and cell phone have the highest
penetration level of them all --- that's where the highest access rate can
be had it seems to me
Errol Hewitt
At 03:23 22/11/2005 +, you wrote:
Hello Dave,
Incidentally, the technology to use a
TV for
Apology for not able to write perfect and coherentEnglish. Sorry, but here is
what I wrote again:
NO ... 1st world tools can solve 3rd world
problems ... IF and ONLY they apply appropriately.
... Sending a Yale professor to teach
first year primary school English would not be the
right
Hello Dave,
Incidentally, the technology to use a
TV for two-way communication has been around for years...no MIT
development needed
PRECISELY !! It is available for the longest time (I just thought I play safe!)
so why reinventing the wheel? Why spend money on another 'screen' where
There are many gaps. There are many populations at different stages of
development with differerent needs. Thus, different solutions need to
be developed. I do have a problem with the requirement for 1 million
laptops of the same design (which I don't really like, ut will wait to
see) - but that
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Adite Chatterjee
Date: dim. 11/20/2005 11:36
À: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks
discussion group
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks... No Keyboard.
In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY
would
an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in India- where
electricity
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks... No Keyboard.
In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY would
an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in India- where
electricity, water, housing, food is a problem, need FLASH?
Bang on target Taran -- yet again
Errol Hewitt
At 18:11 20/11/2005 -0600, you wrote:
Terry King wrote:
At 12:00 PM 11/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
I suppose by buying a US$100 laptop an illiterate becomes literate and
exploring the Internet fulfills the curriculum of all thirty plus
students
group
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks... No Keyboard.
In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY
would
an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in India- where
electricity
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Adite Chatterjee
Date: dim. 11/20/2005 11:36
À: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room
The reference to Flash, in this case, is dealing with RAM. Not the
multimedia software, which as Andy points out could be useful (but begs
the question, How can people run it without being able to read. -
solutions needed).
Adite Chatterjee wrote:
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of
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De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Adite Chatterjee
Date: dim. 11/20/2005 11:36
À: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks
Agreed Adite. The point still is that the talent and localized knowledge
of people in 'developing' countries must be supported in these areas to
develop and maintain the required 'tools'. Its crucial!!!
Errol Hewitt
At 10:06 21/11/2005 +0530, you wrote:
Simputer has some good ideas, but only
Hi Adite,
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:06 +0530, Adite Chatterjee wrote:
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks... No Keyboard.
In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY would
an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in
The $100 laptop is a marketing exercise, no doubt...but isn't
everything? Linspire is currently moving to sell boxed versions of
Open Office, simply because marketing will let them reach a greater
number of people than the open source machine has currently
reached...greater market penetration
Objet : Re: [DDN] Re: $100 laptop
Simputer has some good ideas, but only 32M of Flash. No room for
textbooks... No Keyboard.
In response to the above comment, just one tiny observation: pray, WHY
would
an illiterate person sitting in remote Rajasthan in India- where
electricity, water, housing
Dave A. Chakrabarti wrote:
Lastly, in response to the poster who said she wouldn't give her
hard-earned dollars to an organization that focuses on the hardware
without considering the support / training issues, I disagree. Though
I think the Simputer is a more appropriate solution than the
Emmanuel James Mjimapemba wrote:
How can one purchase these 'simputers'? That can really be a good facility
for underdeveloped countries.
I dealt with Amida directly - http://www.amidasimputer.com
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Taran Rampersad
Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad
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Reading some of the discussions on this list, somehow they give me the
impression some of the members on this list is still using FIRST world tools
to solve 3rd world problems. (Sorry to use the terms first and 3rd worlds).
Not that long ago I wrote about children in some African
Hi Cindy, Taran, others,
Why do you feel there is an inherent problem with using first-world
technologies to address third-world problems? India owes its status as a
booming IT market entirely to this phenomenon.
I'll give you a more grassroots example, however. I know of a nonprofit
based
At 12:00 PM 11/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
I suppose by buying a US$100 laptop an illiterate becomes literate and
exploring the Internet fulfills the curriculum of all thirty plus students
in each class.!!
I am of course, not under- valuing the phenomenal wealth of knowledge
accessible by the same
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