Tryggvi Thayer, Ph.D.
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Category Archives: Internet
Uruguay gives laptops to every public primary school student
Uruguay has completed their plan of equipping every student in the country’s public primary schools with an XO Laptop computer. The final count of the computers was 396,727 laptop computers. The project is not completed because not all of the … Continue reading
Teens and social networking
Social networking researcher danah boyd (yes, she likes to have it without caps) has shared some questions that she has gotten from people on US teenagers and their use of social networking sites and her responses. Her very short and … 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
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Internet, Leapfrogging development
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UNDP-APDIP’s “e-Primers” open-sourced
People over at the UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) have caught on to the brilliance of Wikis. They’ve released a bunch of their “e-Primers” under a GFDL license onto Wikibooks. What this means is that they are free to … Continue reading
Recent news – Internet governance, China-Africa Summit and more
There seem to be so many things going on these days. Maybe it’s just that time of year or maybe I’m finally awaking from semi-hiatus. Either way, I’m probably going to cover a lot of news in this post. Two … Continue reading
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Internet governance and the Internet Bill of Rights
An “Internet Bill of Rights” has been proposed at the inaugural meeting of the Internet Governance Forum. While I can see the rationality behind wanting to ensure some basic rights for Internet users, I just don’t see what sort of … Continue reading
Posted in ICTs, Information Society, Internet
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