There was a FLOSS Weekly podcast a while ago with some guy describing
the work done in Nepal. That definitely sounded like OLPC had/has some
impact there.
http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/nepal/ole_nepal_on_floss_weekly.html
It's a very interesting episode to listen to. Many of the effects and
problems they face are quite different from what you might expect. Some
things I remember are kids running through the curriculum too fast,
parents borrowing the computer too much and the need for legislative
changes to adjust how curriculae are handled.
Peter
On 13/07/10 21:21, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
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In the past there has been some debate about the OLPC concept, but
I've not heard anything about it. I mean: there hasn't been any
further discussion in technical communities forums etc as in the past.
Looking at the web site (laptop.org) I see there are updates,
including an article on Time
(http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1997940,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular).
But is it really changing the world? A few hours ago, I realized that
in the meantime the scenario has changed in such a way that maybe the
OLPC is already old stuff. In the end (see the Time article) the end
cost raised from $99 to $181, and I wonder whether in one year one
couldn't make a tablet based on Android for a similar price. It would
be much more powerful tool (hw and sw) and stuff such as the Android
Inventor (see my previous post) might be a plus. Of course, there's
all the stuff related to robustness and operability in special
conditions that I can't evaluate - but I presume similar concepts
could be applied to a tablet. I wonder whether Google is thinking of that.
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