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* "When people tell you that something is impossible, they usually have a vested interest in it not coming true" - Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
* "When people tell you that something is impossible, they usually have a vested interest in it not coming true" - Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
* It's an Education Project - Negroponte talk on OLPC in #Colombia (TED talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_takes_olpc_to_colombia.html
* It's an Education Project - Negroponte talk on OLPC in #Colombia (TED talk) http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_takes_olpc_to_colombia.html
* View finders for OLPC XO laptops - made from plastic, cardboard or even lego: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4604.msg30679#msg30679



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* http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2008/03/bringing-an-olp.html
* http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/2008/03/bringing-an-olp.html
* William Kamkwamba on the DailyShow - his mission to overcome famine and poverty in his village by building a windmill from a picture in a library book. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba
* William Kamkwamba on the DailyShow - his mission to overcome famine and poverty in his village by building a windmill from a picture in a library book. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba

* View finders for OLPC XO laptops - made from plastic, cardboard or even lego: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4604.msg30679#msg30679
Rural school in canada with One Macbook Per Child - it's about education, not the latop http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/canada/technology_in_education_integr.html #OLPC


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