As our press release today was parallel to OLPC's and many journalists consulted both, I am including links to articles which cite OLPC but not Sugar by name. Also, yesterday's announcement by OLPC concerning the Memorandum of Understanding with the East African Community was often folded into the Palestine Territories coverage, so I will link to some of those too.
Some errors occurred (the Boston Globe found an extra 10 million XOs, IDG said Activities are Windows-compatible) but most coverage has been positive. An encouraging step: OLPC has agreed to cite Sugar in their communications going forward, which will be helpful. BBC (1): One Laptop per Child targets Middle East and E Africa http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10091177.stm BBC (2): One Laptop Per Child reaches Gaza Strip http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8651580.stm AFP (via YNet): UN to distribute 200,000 laptops to Gaza refugees http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3882775,00.html IDG: UN to Buy 500,000 OLPC Laptops for Palestinian Children; the laptops will run Sugar, not Windows, marking a return to OLPC's roots http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/195240/un_to_buy_500000_olpc_laptops_for_palestinian_children.html http://www.itworld.com/hardware/106222/un-buy-500000-olpc-laptops-palestinian-children eGov Monitor: 500,000 Palestinian Children To Receive Laptops - A Collaboration Between UN And One Laptop per Child (OLPC) http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/36068 Crunchgear: OLPC gets a boost: 500,000 units ordered by U.N. for Palestinian children http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/29/olpc-gets-a-boost-500000-units-ordered-by-u-n-for-palestinian-children/ Boston Globe: OLPC aims to send 30m laptops to African students http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/04/one_laptop_per_12.html Heise (DE): OLPC-Laptops für ostafrikanische und palästinensische Kinder http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/OLPC-Laptops-fuer-ostafrikanische-und-palaestinensische-Kinder-990195.html DigitalTrends: OLPC Inks Deals in Africa, Middle East http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/olpc-inks-deals-in-africa-middle-east/ People's Daily (CN): UNRWA distributes laptops to Palestinian school children http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90783/91321/6968177.html UNIC Rio (BR): Crianças palestinas recebem computadores de parceiro da ONU http://unicrio.org.br/?p=579 Daily Monitor (UG): EAC adopts one laptop per child initiative http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/909080/-/wy23nk/-/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
