Sri Lanka to introduce one laptop per child
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| Two-million primary school children are to be provided with US$ 100-worth
| laptops under a farsighted initiative.
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| This is being launched by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a US based
| organisation in collaboration with the Education Department and several local
| and foreign financial, technological and academic institutions.
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http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080210/FinancialTimes/ft310.html
Related and recent:
One Laptop Per Child wins Wallpaper* Design Award
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| Wallpaper* has given One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop a Judges Award for Most
| Life Enhancing Item. Click through for the February 2008 shoot, which leans
| more towards the ‘Ubuntu Calendar’ school of styling than the usual pics of
| smiling schoolchildren.
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http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/one-laptop-per-child-wins-wallpaper-award/
CRUX Linux 2.4 on OLPC XO-1
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| I’m still working out the kinks, but I managed to put Crux 2.4 on the XO last
| night, and I have a rudimentary Openbox 3.4.6 session working with the
| default kernel and wired net access, functional browser, file manager and
| image viewer, and so forth.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/crux-linux-24-on-olpc-xo-1/
The XO Laptop: It’s the Software, Stupid
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| Uruguay was the first country to purchase a large number of XO laptops,
| ordering 100,000 of the small green machines from Cambridge, MA-based One
| Laptop Per Child Foundation last October. If you dropped a couple thousand
| bucks on your last laptop, you may be alarmed by the idea of a student taking
| her brand-new XO into a muddy cow pen and getting up close and personal with
| a caul-enmeshed calf still shining with amniotic fluid. But to the folks at
| OLPC, who designed the $175 XO to be rugged and portable, yet powerful,
| finding the YouTube video was a triumphant moment. This bit of barnyard
| reality spoke volumes about an often-overlooked aspect of the project—namely,
| the software, which is designed to overturn old notions of classroom learning
| and give kids the ability to collaborate and express themselves in many
| media.
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http://www.xconomy.com/2008/02/01/the-xo-laptop-its-the-software-stupid/
Related:
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
|
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
|
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
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