Category Archives: ICTs

The end of the OLPC project?

OLPC is making a big mistake by considering including Windows on its laptops. In this BBC News article, Negroponte is quoted as saying, “We are in the learning business and what the operating system is underneath is less germane” Hogwash! … Continue reading

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Leapfrogging and technology diffusion

The focus of the World Bank’s “Global Economic Prospects” this year is “Technology diffusion in the developing world”. Not surprisingly, this has generated a lot of discussion about the “leapfrogging” concept, i.e. accelerating development through the adoption of cheap new … Continue reading

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References for Millennium Declaration Analysis Series

I have received several requests to post references referred to in my so-called “Millennium Declaration Analysis Series” which I link to in the left margin of the main page of this blog. These lengthy articles are drafts that I produced … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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