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Village in Africa .On this image, we can see the life of its people. Gboto est un village à 90 km de Lomé la capitale. Sur ces images, nous pouvons voir le quotidien de ses habitants. une jeune fille et un jeune garcon Togo, Africa on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

Using technology to bridge the learning gap across Africa

Edit The Guardian 04 Apr 2016
The failings of hardware-driven initiatives such as One Laptop Per Child have proven that lofty initiatives don’t always yield results ... While at first glance, Kio Kit may seem like a hardware-driven premise similar to One Laptop Per Child, Hersman explains that the BRCK team comes from a much more holistic and localised mindset ... “One of the biggest ......

Lear Corporation Appoints Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen to Board of Directors (Lear Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
She also co-founded One Laptop per Child, and was the lead architect of the $100 laptop, millions of which were shipped to children in the developing world ... Jepsen is one of the world's foremost display innovators, with an exceptional track record of leadership and inventions, paralleled by years of working with Asia's largest manufacturers....

Lear Corporation Appoints Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen to Board of Directors

Edit PR Newswire 09 Mar 2016
 She also co-founded One Laptop per Child, and was the lead architect of the $100 laptop, millions of which were shipped to children in the developing world ... Jepsen is one of the world's foremost display innovators, with an exceptional track record of leadership and inventions, paralleled by years of working with Asia's largest manufacturers.  Dr....

TV previews, Thursday February 25

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 24 Feb 2016
The One Laptop Per Child program brings computers, and soon the telephone comes too ... One, 11pm ... Still, it’s interesting to see thegraverobbers’ noble trade in research cadavers being squeezed by new legislation on one side and a monster who kills to order on the other ... One, 9.05pm ... an interest in outsiders and a view of the wider world that’s almost child-like....

Govts should make Internet free for citizens

Edit Khaleej Times 10 Feb 2016
A leading American professor has proposed the creation of a World Communication Organisation (WCO) and urged governments to make Internet access free for the public. Speaking on the second day of the World Government Summit, Prof ... Negroponte, who is also the founder of One Laptop per Child Association and younger brother of John Negroponte, who served as Deputy Secretary of State under former US president George W....

Best Linux desktop: which is ideal for you?

Edit TechRadar 01 Feb 2016
One of Unity's strengths is the Dash, a tool for quickly finding just about anything from media and files to programs and web links – it also provides a handy shortcut to recently used items ... When Nicholas Negroponte founded One Laptop Per Child, the project kicked off with extremely limited hardware, so the developers set about creating a desktop environment that was both very light on resources and very child-friendly....

Thinking Beyond Hashtags

Edit Indian Express 31 Jan 2016
While all the technology mediated experiments of knowledge dissemination — distance learning, TV-based education, building open universities, equipping classrooms with digital infrastructure, promoting one laptop per child — have been aimed at creating a diverse and inclusive learning environment, the universities themselves have been told that they are in a state of crisis....

The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar

Edit The Atlantic 21 Jan 2016
We’re seated atop a raised platform in a makeshift shed in the middle of one of his rice fields ... One Samsung, one from a mysterious company called “Honor,” two Huawei ... His one laptop-per-child dream was never fully realized but one smartphone-per-human—far more capable and sensible than a laptop, in many ways—has most certainly arrived ... All the phones clock in under the equivalent of one hundred U.S....

Why an Ex-Google Coder Makes Twice as Much Freelancing

Edit Bloomberg 19 Jan 2016
... of freelancers who now account for one in three workers, according to the U.S ... Having taught himself programming at the age of nine, Langhoff went on to become chief technology officer at the non-profit One Laptop Per Child program, where he managed a software and hardware team, industrial design, manufacturing and prototypes....

12 ground-breaking laptops that dared to be different

Edit TechRadar 13 Jan 2016
Laptops are often called unique these days when they're not, but the U845W really is a one-of-a-kind ... When Nicholas Negroponte announced the One Laptop Per Child programme back in 2005, many saw it as the beginning of a revolution, one that was going to bring computing to the rest of the world, the billions at that time, lacked access to the internet....

If Education is the Cure for Poverty, then How do we Make the Antidote?

Edit Khaama Press 05 Jan 2016
The nearly one billion ... There is hope for improving global education as successful innovative ideas are being used by many organizations, such as One Laptop per Child, who have developed and distributed millions of durable, economical, low powered laptops that allows rural children to digitally access updated textbooks, classes and information....

Living digitally: Then, now and tomorrow

Edit Jakarta Post 31 Dec 2015
Thirty years ago, Nicholas Negroponte, one of the founders of MIT’s Media Lab, renowned for its “One Laptop Per Child” initiative, published Being Digital ... Negroponte realized the irony of writing about a digital future in a paperback book and he pointed out that the current interface was a primitive one ... In the post-information age, we often have an audience the size of one ... “Instead of carrying your laptop, wear it....

Emotion Mining Company Announces Satish Jha as CEO; and Next Round of Funding --Captures conscious and subconscious motivations that drive critical decisionmaking--

Edit PR Newswire 17 Dec 2015
He seeded, advised and mentored a couple of dozen social enterprises including Tarahaat.com and Drishtee.com, founded One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) India and serves as Chairman of Ecco Electronics.  Jha led the global information management for the chemicals division of Hoffmann-La Roche, after which he cofounded James Martin & Co (now ......
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