This week, the One Laptop Per Child project, whose mission is to provide basic PCs for students in developing countries, announced a sad incentive for donations: if you donate $400 to the project, they'll send one laptop overseas to ...READ MORE›
One of the neatest features is the wireless technology that’s built into the OLPC laptop. It works even where there isn’t a wifi cloud available and builds its own mesh, along with some unique features. Here Michail Blestas, VP of ...READ MORE›
[video_twistage 1]It’s been a while since we’ve heard what is happening inside the One Laptop Per Child project. Here we meet Chuck Kane, president of OLPC, and he tells us about why they went with Microsoft and gives us an update ...READ MORE›
The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child has designed a laptop that would cost only $150. It is meant explicitly for the world's poorest children, so they can take their learning in their own hands. Not only is the laptop ...READ MORE›
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As you know GLOCAL influence is the best, bit of Global effect and a bit of
Local impact. Here is a great and useful example: PECHA KUCHA & ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY JOIN IN THE REBUILDING
OF HAITI. ...READ MORE›
Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC scheme never made it below the magic $100 barrier that it was originally touted at and now it looks like the march of technology, and the netbook phenomenon has caught up to it in the US. ...READ MORE›
Teaching a child with autism can be an exercise in frustration--for both teacher and child. But designers at the Boston office of the design firm Continuum have developed a teaching aid--still in the concept stage--that could go a ...READ MORE›
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“Technology for Social Good” It is the theme of this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. So many people,
especially women, would love to find a job where their work contributes to the ...READ MORE›
Intel's first Classmate PC followed in the footsteps of Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC by being a similarly cheap, robust portable PC intended for educational use. Last year Intel upgraded the specification to the ...READ MORE›
As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity -- and transform the role of the teacher.READ MORE›
Mobile Messenger and Poll Everywhere are rolling out a new initiative to reach students where they spend a large chunk of their time anyway--on cell phones.READ MORE›
The news that the XO Laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child foundation is launching a buy-one-get-one sale to encourage first world consumers to help fund laptops for children in developing countries has spawned an eager chorus ...READ MORE›
My grandmother turned 92 a couple of months ago. While her short-term memory isn't great, she can describe in detail growing up in the 1920s. It is amazing how much has changed in her lifetime. Commercial air travel. Computers. ...READ MORE›
You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Design.READ MORE›
Hey, kids! Worried that you'll be blown up by landmines left over from past wars? Landmine Lookout can help. The video game, designed by researchers at Michigan State University, is designed to teach Cambodian children how to avoid ...READ MORE›
The tech world has been abuzz about reports that India is developing it's own ultra low-cost PC, peaking with its supposed "unveiling" yesterday. But the Sakshat laptop turned out to be nothing at all like the official hype had ...READ MORE›
Ever tried to read an email on your smartphone in direct sunlight? Well, if you haven't, don't--because it's pretty much impossible. That's because the screens on most computers and cell phones are backlit, especially now that both ...READ MORE›
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