SIP Can Be Involved: MIT Media Lab's Initiative One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

This MIT Media Lab's Laptop Is Not for Sale but for Progress

If we are talking about the Internet and its influence on our every-day life we can not forget one of the pioneers of the human-computer interface's development Nicholas Negroponte.
At the early stage of the Internet-era in 1995 he published his futuristic hit "Being Digital" , and now we celebrate with him the end of this analog decade demonstrating his new endeavor "One Laptop per Child" and the first prototype of this "digital being".

This is, I think, the only working $100 laptop prototype in existance.
Witness the handcrank.
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By dweekly

Just a rhetorical question: how the Society of Internet Professionals can participate in this outstanding social enterprise?

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One Laptop per Child
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Vol. 5 Num 526
November 19, 2005
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One laptop per child for the developing world
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Third World doesn't need the Internet
It's wrong to push the internet into Africa and elsewhere. The people (by that I mean citizens) need Western knowledge ...
Do you agree the internet is not the best way to educate, to democratize or to lift from poverty the mass of people in the developing countries? ... more »
Posted by Sarunas at October 23, 2005
sarunas :: Knowledge technologies for the Third World

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Video of Negroponte's talk re the $100 laptop
As doubts about the feasability of Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop are being raised, he gives a speech (video) at MIT. from Slashdot.
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Saturday, December 31, 2005

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