Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Recommendations from whom?
Last summer, Craig R. Barrett, chairman of UN GAID and chairman of the board of Intel Corp., issued a list of “Recommendations from the UN GAID Chairman”. A couple of the recommendations are worthy of a slightly raised eyebrow, and … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Internet, Leapfrogging development
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BBC World Service Poll on Globalisation
The BBC has published the results of a poll on attitudes toward, and experiences of, globalisation that they conducted in cooperation with GlobeScan Inc. and The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). (See the story on the poll on BBC … Continue reading
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The OLPC is child’s play
The BBC News website has a great story about a child’s first experience with the OLPC laptop. Reminds me of my family’s first home computer when I was at the tender age of 11-12. That was almost 30 years ago … Continue reading
Internet Bill of Rights – it’s still not making sense
At the Internet Governance Forum held Brazil, the issue of an “Internet Bill of Rights” has once again been brought up, as it was at last year’s forum. I said then that I thought it was a waste of time … Continue reading
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SimCity on the OLPC laptop
Update: I didn’t dig deep enough to see what was really meant concerning constructionism and SimCity – see here – makes more sense now. Game producer Electronic Arts has donated the original SimCity to the OLPC project (read more here). … Continue reading
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School laptops in Nigeria – Microsoft or Linux?
The Nigerian government has finalised a plan to make 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs available to school children. The project then took some strange twists and turns regarding the operating system for the laptops to run on. A strange series of … Continue reading
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