hi DDN community - there's a nice, brief mention of the digital divide network at the end of this article in the los angeles times today. free software enthusiast lou dolinar is the author of the article -- which originally appeared in the newspaper titled newsday.
>From Newsday Lou Dolinar: Portable apps get a thumbs-up March 5, 2006 Way back in 1981, I bought my first computer, an Osborne I "portable" that tipped the scales at 26.2 pounds and had a 3.5-inch-wide monitor, a 4-megahertz processor, and in the absence of a hard drive, a pair of 5 1/4-inch removable floppy drives.... (snip) Meanwhile, about that paradigm thing: Haller points out that outfits such as the Digital Divide network (www.digital divide.net) are trying to spread computer literacy worldwide, even as hoped-for $300 PCs still are out of range of much of the world's population. "Why can't we have one or two computers configured centrally, that everyone can use, and give everyone a thumb drive for $10?" he asks. Full article at http://tinyurl.com/rkh44 -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://digg.com/users/pshapiro/submitted http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
