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Category Archives: Leapfrogging development
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
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 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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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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