...The argument for olpc is simple: many children—especially those in rural parts of developing countries—have so little access to school—i
...d Thailand. A modest allocation of machines will be used to seed developer communities in a number of other countries in early 2007. A commercial version of the m
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...h to solving a problem that is relevant to the urgent needs of underserved communities. The organization I work for oneVillage Foundation envisions schools as int
• The Western approach to education may not be a priority for developing communities where issues of sustainability are of fundamental importance.
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- Can you build in WiMAX? In the rural area's there are great distances to cover. Alternatively leave out any wifi
...and escape from dire circumstances is self-help and forming local helping communities based on a strong sense of kinship. If these are missing there is no real h
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...tion resides is almost zero in this area. We have been trying to create a rural digital initiative that will be focused on 1 million villages in India with
...he monitor, keyboard & such stuff jutting out of it. It was found that the rural children out of curiousity, not only started fiddling with it but in a matt
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...wledge. I can't help thinking that it is unlikely that these "third-world" communities have had much genuine say in the OLPC project's design and planning... Once
...in American schools, towns and cities are almost non-existent in the poor rural areas where the XO laptop is intended to go.
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...rying and failing to bring computer training to schools in underprivileged communities.
...ans' daily reality of poverty and hopelessness, and rural America has many communities where poverty is not uncommon.
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=== For local communities ===
...LPC, started September 2008 an educational eTwinning project in El Rama, a rural city in Nicaragua with 54.000 inhabitants. The project was funded by the lo
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...ies: the OLPC initiative, the "Kyoto Protocol" and a technique to dynamise communities by reaching out to the community, via the parents and to the parents via th
...w to install 1.000.000 Rural Developement kits in schools and houses ... a Rural Development kit = a PhotoVoltaic Panel+invertor/plug system+batteries proba
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...bodia. http://www.parish-without-borders.net/cditt/cambodia/dailylife/2004/rural-internet.htm
...network across a town. This would very much needed in order to connect a communities of laptops together.
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...ld be fairly straightforward in theory: train technicians who either visit communities where laptops were distributed on a regular basis or have "service depots"
2. lack of postal system in rural areas - how would a child in a village package and mail a laptop? How coul
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* [[Wizzy Digital Courier]]: Internet access for rural schools via USB stick
...r ability to one day become a new financial support for their families and communities.
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...e would be more effective and stronger if kids in Brazil and the Congo and rural China could communicate together from the start and learn from each other;
...Esperanto is "for NATO countries". Already there are very active Esperanto communities in countries such as Brazil, Benin, Kongo, Iran, China, Japan and all of th
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...nications infrastructure, thereby preventing connectivity, particularly in rural areas. The issue of infrastructure is a major issue as this requires long-t
...trend in Internet content and e-commerce is to target national and global communities that are wealthier and have more disposable income... the people who are ac
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...finitely need food and shelter, there are multitudes of people who live in rural or sub-urban areas and have plenty to eat and reasonable accommodations. Wh
...education so that they can learn skills to end poverty and hunger in their communities in future.
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Rema: The rural village of Rema is the first African village equipped by solar energy. On S
Two rural schools:
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...n one of the African countries. Preference will be given to deployments in rural areas.
less priviledged children in Makoko rural area of Lagos, Nigeria. The project we
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...ests that the impact of empowering children, their teachers, families, and communities with computers and communication has a net positive impact on learning, soc
..."in other country" production shop in a slum ('favela' in Brazil) or poor rural community? This would provide jobs, which are as immediately important as (
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...s 1st through 12th grade in the same school. They exist primarily in small communities and thus enable 1:1 in entire schools, for all grades, and for the entire c
...ft. That said, we've seen no theft in our pilot projects in places such as rural Cambodia.
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...to respond to local situations, particularly with regards to disadvantaged communities is the OLPCorps recurring network-learning program for kids.
...help them to be in a better position to make a future difference in their communities and the world. It is expected that by providing such information to young m
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...ovided by the OLPC project would help to make recordings accessible to the communities as well as empower the youngest generations to use modern technologies to e
...achers will assist students in gaining an understanding of how their rural communities are interconnected with others as they investigate the natural world and sc
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