Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: ICTs
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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ITU and Microsoft announce data visualisation project
At the recently concluded “Connect Africa” the ITU announced a partnership with Microsoft to produce ITU Global View, an online platform for tracking ICT development. It will be based on Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and will allow for visual representation of … Continue reading
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The OLPC laptop – educational tool, technical revolution or both?
As distribution of the OLPC project’s XO laptop nears, has the shift of attention from the educational aspects of the project to the technical aspects injured the project? When Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab started talking about their plans … Continue reading
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The document reality of an ICT4D program: missed opportunities
I have a lot of stuff on this blog on my analysis of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and ICTs for development, but I never got around to posting anything about the research that came from … Continue reading
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Neat stuff for XO (formerly known as “$100 laptop”)
The folks at the MIT Media Lab stay true to their constructionist/constructivist roots with SCRATCH, a nifty application to introduce the rudimentary concepts of programming and have fun while doing it! An interesting approach. It’ll be exciting to see what … Continue reading
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Interesting examples of resourceful networking in South Africa
The BBC news website has a collection of brief reports about ways that ICT use is being spread and used in poverty stricken areas in South Africa. Everything from mesh networking with tin cans to free open source software. While … Continue reading
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