BBC NEWS | Technology | UN net summit diary: Day three A little late in posting this, it’s been bookmarked for a while! The main reasons for posting this particular post are that as well as a summary of the final day at the World Summit on Information Society, there are links to other related…
Category: Digital Divide – Majority World/Gender/etc.
Internet – Friend or Foe of Learning
Terraviva , an online edition of TerraViva, have a report from the recent World Summit on the Information Society, looking at the reaction of some Chilean schools to the “problems” introduced by allowing children to Word process homework (plagiarism being the main issue). Other teachers are commenting on the fact that while computers have been…
Forums: Emerging Technologies
TechSoup Tech Soup is a site that I used to use quite a lot & haven’t for quite some time now. I found this referenced somewhere (link from a link type thing), and it reminded me of the use of the site. This particular forum is looking at emerging technologies, such as Wel 2.0, Web…
UN debut for $100 laptop for poor
It seems that the $100 laptop is finally in existence – albeit in protoype form. It’s lime green …. Images from MIT site. More information: MIT’s official site – also includes more images & a webcast of the launch (warning: just over 1 hour long) Worldchanging blog – other links etc; including the potential problems….
US heads for internet showdown
The UN World Summit on the Information Society was meant to be concentrating on getting the majority world online … however they’re likely to be looking more at who’s controlling the Internet. “The rest of the world doesn’t want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons,” says Jonathan Zittrain, Chair…
Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop
WorldChanging has a preview of the upcoming low cost Laptop designed for the majority world… looking good….
BBC NEWS | Technology | Volunteer call for the tech-savvy
BBC NEWS | Technology | Volunteer call for the tech-savvy Hmm… I wonder. I spent two and a half years a few years ago in a more “typical” volunteers role – training primary school teacher to work with children with disabilities in Madang, Papua New Guinea. While part of me thinks that it’s a good…
Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations
Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations. I’ve found several blog references to this conference, in particular from Lilia’s Mathemagenic Blog. I’m not sure how many papers there are, but there are quite a few. I’ve looked at several abstracts so far, but unfortunately it seems that it’s just an abstract, only delegates get access to the…
Community PC
The Guardian reports on a “Community PC” – which Intel are developing. Rather than donating old PCs to the majority world, they are developing PCs that are robust enough to cope with high humidity, lots of bugs (the multi -legged sort) – as well as lots of different users. From a maintenance point of view,…
Kenya pilots handheld education
BBC Click Online An overview of a project run by EduVision in Kenya supplying eslates to children in Africa. At present, there is a video accompanying the website, though I’m not sure how long it will last, however, the text of the website is essentially a transcript of the program. It’s hard to tell really…