Group items tagged olpc news - World Systems @ KSU

shared by Lynn Dee on 28 May 07 - Cached

OLPC is funded by a number of sponsor organizations, including AMD, Brightstar Corporation, eBay, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, SES Global, Nortel Networks, and Red Hat. Each company has donated two million dollars.[6]
- Lynn Dee on 28 May 07
  
  If more companies were generous like this, think of what we could accomplish without the restraint of money.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If more companies were generous like this, think of what we could accomplish without the restraint of money.</div>
  
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The laptops will be sold to governments, to be distributed through the ministries of education willing to adopt the policy of “one laptop per child”
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ndia has rejected the initiative
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Human power is planned, allowing operation far from commercial sources of power.
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All of the software on the laptop will be free and open source.[30]
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shared by Seiji Ikeda on 28 May 07 - Cached

shared by Brandon Fox on 28 May 07 - Cached

shared by Lynn Dee on 28 May 07 - Cached

Despite the fact that neither the children, their schools nor their parents will have anything to say in the creation of the design, large orders of multi-million units are planned.
- Lynn Dee on 28 May 07
  
  Have they asked the people who are getting these computers what they want, maybe they would have some new ideas that woudl make the computer keyed more to what they want and need rather than to match them to the upper middles class.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Have they asked the people who are getting these computers what they want, maybe they would have some new ideas that woudl make the computer keyed more to what they want and need rather than to match them to the upper middles class.</div>
  
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It would seem apparent that serious social research must be done to determine family, village and societal attitudes before proceeding with a program like OLPC.
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shared by Justin Heldenbrand on 29 May 07 - Cached

shared by Brandon Fox on 28 May 07 - Cached

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