*Hapee de Groot* @*hapeeg* <https://twitter.com/hapeeg> 33m<https://twitter.com/hapeeg/status/319389057467703298> New portal to bring African Diaspora ICT...
How strange. Clearly you did not even stop to think about how Olpc was designed and works. If one takes your logic then computers won't be imagined or created...
Gihan, I think your words are wise and timely. We are living in a dangerous time for technology. Rapidly, technology is being advanced for purposes where it is...
Hello, eHCF School of Medical Informatics, promoted by eHealth-Care Foundation invite you to the 2 months distance learning program leading to Certificate in...
Hello, eHCF School of Medical Informatics, promoted by eHealth-Care Foundation invite you to the 3 months distance learning program leading to Certificate in...
A US court reminds us that we don't own anything digital that we may buy paying money. Here is the report: ...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
Apr 10, 2013 7:05 pm
This is one of several reasons why I do not pay money for digital media. If I can't find it in Creative Commons, free on the Net, or in physical form, forget...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
Apr 10, 2013 7:22 pm
Contrary to this Beltway-Bubble-Very-Serious-Person-style fluff, Free Software is not dead, not even in trouble. Not while more than four million children are...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
Apr 10, 2013 8:40 pm
Gihan, what you suppose turns out not to be the case. Sugar education software runs in several kinds of Linux on almost any x86 or ARM-based computer. It will...
Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital Restrictions...
Many years ago, I had heard of Michael S. Hart (see below), but only now begin to better understand the work of this amazing person. -- FN ‘Anyone can create...
Hello, We are looking for submissions on digital technologies in Central Asia. If you wanna share an article or post, please contact kiber@.... Best, ...
... Edward, This is exactly my point. I'm happy that the OLPC initiative is now concentrating on software, rather than a particular piece of hardware. I still...
Sent from my iPad Satish Jha Pinewood Partners LLC ... Who is "our"? This part has been a tough one.. People do not believe so.. In India, XOs landed cost with...
CNN IBN decided to discuss the recent controversy around Aakash on face the nation with Sagarika Ghose. For anyone interested in Aakash, OLPC or education, may...
On 2013/04/01 පෙ.ව. 5:29, S J wrote: Clearly you did not even stop to think about how Olpc was designed and works. Sat ish , I was about to apologise for...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
Apr 22, 2013 11:31 pm
Gihan, We are trying to help schoolchildren and their families and communities where the entire educational eco-system is broken or non-existent. Among other...
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Edward Cherlin
echerlin@...
May 4, 2013 6:35 pm
I did the first Unicode conversions of non-English documents in non-Latin writing systems for Project Gutenberg. There are a number of sites online for...
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Subbiah Arunachalam
subbiah.arunachalam@...
May 6, 2013 6:02 am
Friends: Here is an excerpt from a news story I read recently: *Westborough Public Library received first place in the Community Reading Programs category for...
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Subbiah Arunachalam
subbiah.arunachalam@...
May 13, 2013 5:15 am
Friends: It will be great if all public institutions receiving funds from different sources open up their account books as well as their work to the general ...
ACM DEV-4 4th Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with ICTD December 6-7, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa http://dev4.acmdev.org/ Important Dates: ...
... Edward, Thanks. I think I grasp the rationale, but a brief explanation on this list may be useful. ... This is where our views diverge. If a computer is...
Ed, I don't want to question anyone's learning. I have been doing my bit my way and have got more people using computers at schools in India than Negroponte,...
