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Tweets / Dents
- Impressive [Uruguay, Miguel Brechner] Public PowerPoint converted to PDF and posted to the bottom of: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ClassActs/Resources
- Nepal sets example with school laptops http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=11644
- http://www.rtl.nl/components/financien/rtlz/miMedia/2009/week41/wo_nieman_interviewt_negroponte.avi_plain.xml
- "OLPC South Carolina expands with donation" [TRY TO INVESTIGATE] http://columbia.news.sc/2009/11/06/one-laptop-per-child-south-carolina-expands-with-a-generous-donation-from-bluecross-blueshield-of-sc/
- http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/02/negroponte-outlines-the-future-of-olpc-hints-at-paperlike-design-for-third-generation-laptop/
needs work / research
- OLPC's write application http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/0032254/AbiCollab-Takes-On-Google-Docs-and-Zoho-Writer
- Peru Information Technology Report Q4 2009 - new report released http://www.pr-inside.com/peru-information-technology-report-q-r1563379.htm
interviews
- Interview with #OLPC volunteer Tim McNarama http://laptop.org.nz/tim-clicks SENT Shiny 03:41, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
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Upper Canada College, Toronto took laptops and solar panels to Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya, now collaborate shared curriculum http://tinyurl.com/yhqpsv4
- [ARTICLE UNNECESSARILY NEGATIVE, see response below article and also http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/oct-17-letters-to-the-%20editor/article1327548/]
East African Community Secretariat 10 Yr Anniversary Involves OLPC #OLPC (QUESTIONABLE ASPECTS, FACT CHECK FIRST) http://www.eac.int/component/content/320.html?task=view- All of the detail about OLPC is wrong here. We will be participating in those events; speaking on the 20th; but we haven't received details about the campaign, and the quote about the laptop cost and donation matching were apparently extrapolated from G1G1 2007 text?? without contacting us.
XO Laptop (picture of Walter) as one of 7 inventions that are changing the world.
- Already sent http://twitter.com/OLPC/status/5268033720
Sent
- New York USA: Statue of Liberty joins in prep for Nov #OLPC NYC http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3975565671/
- Walter Bender's update on the #sugar project at Open Edge (Education Conference) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaquec_sugar-presentation-for-open-edge-20
- Can a laptop change the world? (BBC - 22 Sept) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html #OLPC Shiny 22:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
- XO 1.5: Create, Collaborate, Contribute: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/09/28/xo-1-5-create-collaborate-contribute/ #OLPC Shiny 04:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- Technology & One Laptop Per Child movement key factors in Rwanda's economic growth (UK Telegraph): http://ur1.ca/csit #olpc Shiny 21:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC in Uruguay - 380,000 laptops delivered for children and their teachers http://youtube.com/watch?v=glz2I84JafA Shiny 23:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ Shiny 01:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC will be at "Teaching Open Source Summit" Oct 29-30 in Toronto. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09 Shiny 04:24, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- Kenyan Children Receive Their #OLPC Laptops http://olpc.tv/2009/09/23/kenyan-children-receive-their-olpc-laptops/ !olpc Shiny 08:37, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC XO 1.5 Beta 2 Version Available For Contributors: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 20:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- Aussie Northern Territory: Computer dream sees light of day (1 Oct) http://ur1.ca/cswx #OLPC Shiny 22:42, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
- NYC OLPC/Sugar Event, Sun Oct 18! Details forthcoming @ http://bit.ly/olpcny Shiny 00:30, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
- Rwanda forges ahead with IT goals (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8285496.stm (video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8286918.stm ) Shiny 04:20, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
- Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy! German Master Thesis on the Sugar Learning Environment: http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/content/view/567/188/ Shiny 09:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
- New Zealand #OLPC volunteers will be at #kiwipycon (Python programmers conference) in Christchurch November 7th & 8th http://nz.pycon.org/ Shiny 21:31, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC Pilot in Sri Lanka (Sunday Times lk) http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091004/Plus/plus_01.html Shiny 01:05, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- San Diego is giving a laptop to every 3rd Grader: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-articles/index.cfm?i=60608&page=1 (subscription required) Shiny 04:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- Laptops for all (Economist, 1st October) #Uruguay http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609 Shiny 09:16, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- NYC event (Sun Oct 18) will be announced here: http://meetup.com/One-Laptop-per-Child-Meetup/ Shiny 19:39, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- Bold Rwanda takes broadband leap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8266290.stm Shiny 22:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC.Asia making inroads into #Bhutan. Photo by Jacky Tsoi. Thx! #olpc !olpc http://ur1.ca/czwz (via @sameerverma) Shiny 01:11, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
- Big smiles as Bhutan student recieves her XO laptop http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2617150&id=699418120&l=283985ac81 #OLPC Shiny 02:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
- One Laptop Per Child pilot in #bhutan http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13608 #olpc Shiny 23:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
- The Innovator's Opportunity - Interview with Mary Lou Jepsen on Screen technologies, including #OLPC XOs http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/screen/the_innovators_opportunity.html Shiny 02:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC XO laptop controlling a @reprap home made 3D printer, to "print" spare parts for the laptop http://laptop.org.nz/olpc-xo-and-3d-printing-reprap Shiny 04:59, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC.Asia team's work is taking off in Bhutan. Photo album (courtesy Jacky Tsoi) at http://bit.ly/rFi0n #bhutan #olpc !bhutan !olpc (via @sameerverma) Shiny 19:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
- Walter Bender visits 150 5th grade kids with XO's. Video-mation: http://animoto.com/play/2hVwpobfxD4cs1OMSBlDVg Shiny 01:04, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
- XO laptop launch in community school #bhutan #olpc http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13631 Shiny 08:38, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
- XO 1.5 pre-release review: http://www.siliconmadness.com/2009/10/olpc-xo-15-beta-2-version-available-for.html Shiny 22:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
- Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies? http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/videos/uruguays-plan-ceibal-the-worlds-most-ambitious-roll-out-of-educational-technologies Shiny 09:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
- Manipur state government (Indian) readying for OLPC school deployments http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09 Shiny 09:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
- View finders for OLPC XO laptops - made from plastic, cardboard or even lego: http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4604.msg30679#msg30679 Shiny 20:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
- Works created by #Bhutan students with their #OLPC (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsX_KaNH0w0 Shiny 00:19, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC hiring Linux devs! http://laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml Shiny 06:39, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC kicks off from Kabjisa (Kuensel) 11 Oct #bhutan The One Laptop Per Child training project .. http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13674 Shiny 19:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
- Integrating open source into high school curriculum in New Zealand: http://theopensourceschool.blogspot.com (CHECK BEFORE POSTING, THX) Shiny 19:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
- RT @olpcindia: Its official! India's Manipur state votes for OLPC. http://ur1.ca/dg4h Please pass it along, spread the message! Shiny 19:42, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
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 Shiny 03:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
- 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 Shiny 08:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
- More OLPC Bhutan pics, courtesy Ryanne Hiu-Yeung Lai of OLPC.Asia http://bit.ly/hjQWq #olpc !olpc Shiny 23:42, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
- School Server v0.6 released http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/07/school-server-v0-6-released/ Shiny 23:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
- The 'youngest headmaster in the world' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8299780.stm Shiny 19:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
- One Broadband Per Finn: 1mb/s a legal right in Finland by July. 100mb Per Finn by 2015? [Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html] User:holt ~4:28, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
- Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay! 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers (BBC) #OLPC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm User:holt ~13:46, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
- Uruguay's 396,727th "final" XO Laptop presentation (youtube video) #OLPC http://youtube.com/watch?v=5DztzQEqRyc User:holt 01:24, 19 October (UTC)
- One Laptop Per Pacific Child http://laptop.org.nz/one-laptop-pacific-child #olpc Shiny 19:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
- Rural school in canada with One Macbook Per Child - it's about education, not the laptop http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/canada/technology_in_education_integr.html #OLPC Shiny 02:45, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC in School Library Journal - http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6357106&articleid=CA6357106 Shiny 03:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC) [By Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief -- School Library Journal, 08/01/2006]
- En Uruguay, des ordinateurs gratuits à l'école pour intégrer les enfants pauvres (Le Monde) http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2009/10/17/en-uruguay-des-ordinateurs-gratuits-a-l-ecole-pour-integrer-les-enfants-pauvres_1255217_0.html Shiny 08:03, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
- Bastien Guerry presents to Paris' ENS Création Industrielle: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/10/histoires-do-robots-lego-logo-xo/ Podcast: http://www.ensci.com/lecole/evenements/conferences/conference/article/984/473/
- BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bookserver_a_plan_to_build_an_open_web_of_books.php Shiny 02:31, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
- Interview with Boston Book Festival Participant Nicholas Negroponte http://bostonist.com/2009/10/20/boston_book_festival_technology_nicholas_negroponte.php Shiny 05:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
- Photos from OLPC in Sri Lanka http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2009/10/mahapola-moe-olpc-foss.html Shiny 08:23, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
- "[India] State govt earmarks Rs 155 lakh for one laptop per child" http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=15..071009.oct09 Shiny 20:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
- BookServer can deliver 1.6 m ebooks to OLPC (One Laptop per Child) XO laptops, wirelessly. http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-day-it-all-changed/ (via @glecharles) Shiny 01:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
- Every Elementary Student in Uruguay Now Has an OLPC Laptop http://www.dailytech.com/Every+Elementary+Student+in+Uruguay+Now+Has+an+OLPC+Laptop/article16542.htm Shiny 08:43, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC Afghanistan builds pedal power system for XO Laptop http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/olpc-afghanistan-builds-pedal-power-system-for-xo-laptop.html Shiny 21:25, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
- One Laptop Per Child scheme finds its feet in South American schools - http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/olpc-in-hands-of-all-uruguay-s-primary-kids-643136 Shiny 05:14, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
- Caryl Bigenho's Los Angeles microdeployment photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2019550&id=1413015665&l=25d1c0f81f and Map: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects Shiny 19:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
- Netbook (mini laptop) sales increasing - Notebook (traditional laptop) sales falling http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10371015-1.html Shiny 21:35, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
- Pixel Qi's lower power screen shipping soon - http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/pixel-qi-displays-shipping-to-oems-soon.html Shiny 22:32, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC laptops in Africa http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Hardware/10191.html Shiny 08:30, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
- How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rothman/how-e-books-could-smarten_b_329227.html Shiny 19:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
- Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ Shiny 05:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included--Book publishers looking to embrace the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube are creating “vooks,” which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html Shiny 20:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- Slashdot / Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books On OLPC Laptops http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/24/2049231 Shiny 02:27, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
- Oh Canada! Join r Toronto/YorkU Thu conf dinner & UWaterloo Sat lunch http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/toronto-dev/2009-October/000053.html Holt 3:31, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC View finder made from "Shrinkydink" http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4041206404/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/4040458719/ Shiny 19:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
- Toronto OLPC-Sugar-Teaching Open Source Dinner Thurs: Moved to YorkU! http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2009-October/000629.html Holt 0:37, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC named one of the "7 Inventions That Are Changing the world" by the @huffingtonpost : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/7-inventions-that-are-cha_n_337877.html?slidenumber=Yz0ixx9YXBg%3D#slide_image Shiny 20:18, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
- Improving internet access in #Rwanda http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14064&article=21833 #olpc [who posted? "10:52 AM Oct 30th from identica"]
- CBCradioCanada Interviews Uruguay http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/thisseason/ MP3 @3:35 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/dispatches_20090910_20048.mp3 6:44, Holt 1 November 2009 (UTC)
- #OLPC Au "Window of Opportunity Initiative" invites corporate Australia to fund the deployment of XOs to children attending remote schools http://www.olpc.org.au/v2/events/ Shiny 01:35, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Rwanda Connectivity Planning? Compares OLPC Uruguay: http://allafrica.com/stories/200910300100.html Shiny 19:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Young Canadians deploy #OLPC XO Laptops, Solar Power, & Cellular Wifi Internet in Kenya-youtube 3m41s http://youtube.com/watch?v=V5uAPxiJ7dc Holt ~4:07, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
- IDB report indicates that 1:2 computing doesn't work as well as 1:1 http://bit.ly/45IM7H 202.78.240.7 23:32, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
- Chuck Kane and Paul Commons visit UC Berkeley, Thu Nov 5, 3-4:30 pm and Stanford, Fri Nov 6, 12-1 pm. Details at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco_Bay_Area#Events 202.78.240.7 23:53, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
- "When people tell you that something is impossible, they usually have a vested interest in it not coming true" - Nicholas 202.78.240.7 19:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPC—Hints at Paperlike Design for Third Generation Laptop http://tinyurl.com/ygltc3z Shiny 23:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
- Open education and an IT-enabled economic growth in Ghana: Musings of a dutiful citizen: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=171387 Shiny 04:09, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC XO-3 - tablet form factor http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/04/olpc-negroponte-tablet-ebook Shiny 03:23, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- OLPC: The Best ROI for Indian Children http://ictdev.org/pulse/20091105/ict4d/olpc-best-roi-indian-children Shiny 19:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
- New York Times #OLPC article 9th-November-2009 "Nonprofit Laptops: A Dream Not Yet Over" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/arts/09iht-design9.html Shiny 05:42, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Maths is not hard: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/math-is-not-hard-a-simple_b_331878.html Shiny 20:41, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
- Amping up OLPC New York Saturday November 21; 1-4PM - http://olpclearningclub.org/meetings/november-amping-up-olpc-ny-dc-meeting-date-change/ Shiny 06:27, 10 November 2009 (UTC)