Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project

It would seem that ProjectEducate could educate us all with the outcome of this (which seems in contradiction to the post below?) >ProjectEducate is the recipient of 400 computers from the Montgomery >County Public School District through Teachers

Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One LaptopPer Child / X0-1

First, I have posted some of the items below on the olpc web site. This is in response to the 15th mtg and Arthur's post on DDN as well as Elizabeth Finn's blog: 1) Apple's iPhone is an indicator where tech is going. One pocket device for folks built around the phone. The cyber immigrants said

Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project

Arthur, I run a tiny non-profit www.project-educate.org and having been born and raised in Africa, I could not agree with you more Arthur. I find it hard to believe that people are pushing for this. In Zambia where I come from, the average family survives on less than a dollar a day. Now

Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project

On the surface it the so-called OLPC has been dressed as beneficial to third world children and families, but have the proponents of the initiative spared a thought for the following: a) that the children being targeted for the initiative are mostly going to be unable to pay school fees an

Re: [DDN] $165 laptop

$100 laptops is a business strategy dressed as charity and help. Having said this, suppose 200 million young (for example, african) children buy each a $100 dollar laptop, where is this $20 billion dollars going to come from and where is it going to? The so-called $100 dollar laptop initiat

[DDN] Summer Events at Kean University of NJ

Center for Innovative Education at Kean University Register Online Now! http://cie.kean.edu/registration.html (Go to site and click on a workshop title to register online) Walk-in Registration is Accepted! NJ Professional Development Provider #405 Location: Kean University, Hennings Hall – Room

[DDN] MP3

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[DDN] IFPI's threats against DJ's are backfiring, according to Tages-Anzeiger. Yet...

Hi All IFPI Switzerland www.ifpi.ch started an intimidation campaign against DJ's, sending registered letters and contracts they were meant to sign lest IFPI sue them. IFPI alleged that DJs' use of copied CDs in their work violated art. 36 of the Swiss copyright law

[DDN] FW: TILC2007 - Call for papers

> TILC2007 > > T2 : Transformations and Technology > 30 November - 1 December 2007 > Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus > Perth, Western Australia > > Call for papers > TILC 2007, T2 : Transformations and Technology addresses the > transformative potential of information and communicat