Education and development
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A biweekly discussion group.
March 15
Speaker series. Who from education, economics, social development, technology?
March 28
Related projects
Updates needed for...
- Tamilnet - what happened to one email per village?
- Motocar/oxcart nets in Cambodia - still in use?
- Similar Indian networks?
- Cell phone sharing entrepreneurs: #, impact?
- Voices from the Plain of Jars - from Laos
Seeds
- Learn about the world; other worlds and cultures. --> arts and culture, wikipedia, digital libraries
- Library interface: pass around catalogs
- Local kid-friendly materials: animals, locales,
- Literacy and numeracy
co-productions
- sesame: al manahil, plazax2, &c
- logo, squeak manuals
- unicef - child storytelling and sharing about their culture
- penpals -- easier for girls? photos make this better
Output
sharing and cultural id
- Media and oral histories
- collab record, by community
- minor languages and cultural preservation
...
- media and arts
empowering
- learning to learn and teach
- creative synthesis
- filling bounties, reputation and awards
Kid worries
- Stealing friends' laptop; breaking one and taking another. How to prove whose machine I am?
- Personalization: physical etching? Bring a laser etcher around school to school?
- How much can repersonalization happen?
Pairings/networks
- district, school to school
- student, teacher to teacher
- city, nation to nation
Ideas
Banks for bandwidth - nights and weekends
Animation, shadow puppet software
Postcards from Buster, as model