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Nicholas Negroponte

NComputing gets large low-cost PC deal in India

A Silicon Valley company is claiming a major victory in its efforts to sell computers to schools that might otherwise be enticed by low-cost laptops such as the green-and-white XO from One Laptop Per Child or Intel Corp.'s...

One Virtual PC Per Child

Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, have something in common: Both want to bring affordable computing to the developing world. But ask Chowdhury, the director of...

California firm undercuts $100 laptop scheme

A Californian company has landed a deal to supply computers for 1.8 million schoolchildren in India. Its touting the sale as proof there’s a viable commercial alternative to the much-publicised $100 laptop program for the...

Readings, Research & Links

This page has many links with resources and ideas, research and readings for integrating ICT in your schools. There are also readings attached at the bottom of the page (PDF) for your use...... Bloom's Digital Taxonomy: A...

Africa: Guide to Technologies

Posted to the web 8 October 2008 Technologies that may have an impact on lowering prices and widening access in developing countries: VoIP: In its most immediate form (through services such as Skype) it offers cheap...

100-Dollar-Laptop on the way!

The U. S. American MIT will bing a laptop computer for the whole world on the market. The 100-Dollar-Laptop-Computer is still in process. The idea is to minimize the technological gab between the the poor and rich states. The...

NY School Provides Laptops, Free Home Internet

Some local schools are going high tech with a special device that'll let them access school work 24/7, from the classroom or from home. A school in the South Bronx is going hi-tech, with special low-cost computers and free...

Simplified Displays

Mary Lou Jepsen is developing technology originally created for the $100 laptop project. On display: The liquid-crystal display technology used by the One Laptop per Child project is the foundation for Mary Lou Jepsen’s new...

Jonney Shih

Jonney Shih, CEO of PC and graphics card maker Asus, earns an Agenda Setters nod for transforming the laptop market and making hardware more affordable and more mobile. Asus' Eee PC - a very small, very cheap laptop - arguably...

Rwanda: Laptops for 2.5 Million Children By 2012

Rwanda recently officially launched the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative that the government in Kigali committed to last year. The ambitious programme is targeting 80 per cent or 2.5 million children in five years' time.

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