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Justin Heldenbrand

Controversy: One Laptop Per Child vs Intel | White African - 0 views

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    article on the competition between olpc and intel
Justin Heldenbrand

One Laptop Per Child reaches South America | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle - 0 views

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    Article on olpc in South America
Brandon Fox

One Laptop per Child Foundation - 0 views

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    The OLPC homepage
Amanda Stueve

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Hunger Exacerbating Child Mortality - 0 views

  • after 2000 as health delivery services declined amid growing international isolation.
  • he used to give her older children, who have since finished their primary education, supplements like peanut butter. But now she cannot do the same for her three-year-old son because of escalating prices.
  • Zimbabwe's economic decline has led to the breakdown of the country's health delivery system. Health care is now characterised by acute shortages of drugs and skilled personnel.
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  • he lack of resources to meet service delivery needs will also affect remote rural areas.
  • unavailability of medicine and medical personnel.
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    The economic situation is affecting healthcare in Zimbabwe. Food prices are going up, making it harder for mothers to provide good nutrition for their children. There are not enough funds for supplies and personnel, and doctors and nurses cannot be paid fair wages.
rhanley

Child soldiers - Amnesty International - 0 views

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    similar to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Int'l has statistics and plege forms for sending aid to the areas where children are recruited and used for military.
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    Amnesty internationals fight for the end of children being used as soldiers (much like HRW)
Brandon Fox

What If Every Child Had A Laptop? - 0 views

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    The Potential of the OLPC project
Josh Sparkman

NewsHour Extra : U.N. Fights to Stop Use of Children in Global Armed Conflict -- Februa... - 0 views

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    Good site for explanation of issue and possible solution.
Seiji Ikeda

OLPC - One Laptop per Child - Information and News - 0 views

shared by Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07 - Cached
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    OLPC NEWs.  Although I think it's more of a link gathering site for OLPC rather than anything official.
Kendall

Workplace Prof Blog: Child Labor Laws and High School Drop Out Rates - 0 views

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    Honestly, I really just liked this blog, it's a neat one!
Kendall

Poverty Highlight - 0 views

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    This poses a wonderful question!  Except many children feel that cleaning their room disrupts their childhood.  How far should a definition be allowed to go?
Seiji Ikeda

YouTube - Slightly better demo of the OLPC User Interface - 0 views

shared by Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07 - Cached
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    This video demos the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child, aka "Hundred Dollar Laptop") User Interface (using an emulator). It's pretty unconventional and worth having a look. Check out 90percentofeverything.com for a clearer version of this video.
Seiji Ikeda

Awesome Tech Podcast!!! OLPC $100 Laptop - 0 views

shared by Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07 - Cached
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    One Laptop Per Child video as seen on 60 minutes (1 of 2).
rhanley

LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document - 0 views

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    The UN exhibits its huge problem with child warfare
rhanley

LexisNexis(TM) Academic - Document - 0 views

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    child soldier threatens to go back to the army because he was not being able to reintegrate himself back in his old community
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