Topic: One Laptop Per Child

Ethics: A Bad Day For American Altruism

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»

$150 Laptops for the World's Poorest Children

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»

Lisa Strausfeld, Yves Behar, and Abbott Miller Form Supergroup, Design Litl Netbook

The Litl netbook rethinks interface design, and boasts pitch-perfect design details. Too bad about the price.READ»

Radio Shack's $99 Netbook Beats OLPC To The Bottom

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»

Puzzle Piece: The Laptop for Autistic Kids

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»

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CTL Launches Intel Classmate 2Go Tablet PC

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»

Mary Lou Jepsen - Technology For Social Good By Telle Whitney, CEO Anita Borg Institute

 “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»

No Child Left Offline

The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.READ»

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One Laptop Per Child: Failure is not an Option

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»

The Most Innovative Companies in Design

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»

Why India's $10 Laptop is a Load of Hype

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»

Women in Tech: The Entrepreneurs

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Brazil Greens-up Educational PC Project by Virtualizing

Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»

Good Design Is a Gift That Keeps on Giving

As the holidays grow near, Joe Duffy reminds us that good design--yours or someone else's--can make great gifts for loved ones.READ»

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India's $10 Laptop

On February 3, the Indian government will unveil a $10 educational laptop intended to bring computing to the masses, reports the Times of India. By comparison, a computer-shaped cake pan is $20 plus shipping in the U.S. Will the $10 ...READ»

Famed Industrial Designer Konstantin Grcic Curates Two Design Exhibitions

The 44-year-old German designer selects designs that inspire him and functional designs, in an online gallery and a real-world exhibition.READ»

IBM Introduces Linux-based Netbook Software Aimed at Developing World

The netbook sector is one of the hottest spaces in tech, so it’s no surprise that IBM has thrown its hat into the ring with its new Smart Work package. What is surprising is that the computer giant is angling for market share in ...READ»

WWBGD- What Would Bill Gates Do Part 2

I had asked my readers a few weeks ago, that if they had the opportunity to ask Bill Gate’s any question, what would they ask. I was amazed at not only the amount of responses, but the quality and range of questions offered. ...READ»

Technology Advances Rwanda - Antoine Bigirimana

Rwandan-American Antoine Bigirimana, co-founder and managing director of Thousand Hills Venture Fund (THVF), kicked-off the technology section of PUSH 2008 by discussing how technology has started to advance Rwanda into the 21st ...READ»

A Laptop in Every Pot

Not even a seemingly noble cause can distract Intel from the developing-world marketing efforts we wrote about in "Intel's Amazon Ambitions" (February). After long dismissing the efforts of the One Laptop Per Child foundation to give ...READ»

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Intel Atom: Intel Makes Its Smallest Chip Ever

A completely reimagined computer chip from Intel drinks 10 times less power -- and puts the full Internet in the palm of your hand.READ»

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Social Responsibility: Activist Facebooking and Virtual Gifting

In my latest post on education, I discussed research at the Parsons School of Design on educational games that address social issues. Harnessing technology to promote social awareness is certainly not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...READ»

All About Yves

Not long ago, Yves Béhar was a self-described "slumlord" to cover his rent. Now he's a superstar.READ»

Intel's Amazon Ambitions

How a Brazilian town best known for its Festival of the Ox became a marketing tool for the world's biggest semiconductor company.READ»

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