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ranga
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Newfy
Western Samoa
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 Posted - 09 Oct 2006 : 06:49:47
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Ranga
I have heard about this and wondered how will children access this in the First and Third Worlds. It could be of help in learning and self education for the worlds children especially without access to books etc;. but how will it be possible to have connectivity in rural areas. ?? mahalo Newfy |
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Momodou
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ranga
USA
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Posted - 10 Oct 2006 : 17:28:54
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Momodou, sorry about re-opening an old topic on the Bantaba.
Newfy, this to me just indicates that the future is bright indeed. If some bunch of smart people think it is feasible, who knows, it may even happen in the next 10 years. Broadband access even helps with the traditional education, in addition to self-education. Technologies like WiMax are particularly relevant for connectivity in rural areas. I was apprehensive about this tele-teaching at first. I was surprised how kids found it natural and easy to use computers to interact with teachers somewhere else.
Broadband also opens the door for essentially free communication. All information that can be exchanged by sound or light is being digitized. The world of knowledge is open to every student in the world. The gate fees are higher in some places. This is a hopeful step to reduce those fees.
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T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan
Founder, Geoseed Project
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 11 Oct 2006 : 23:31:11
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Hej Ranga, here is more news about these laptop computers.
A laptop for every Libyan pupil
Wednesday 11 October 2006 1:01 PM GMT
The project might get all Libyan pupils connected to the internet
Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation's 1.2 million schoolchildren.
With the project scheduled to be completed by June 2008, Libya could become the first nation in which all school-age children are connected to the Internet through educational computers, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop per Child project, told the The New York Times on Wednesday.
The $250 million deal, reached on Tuesday, would provide the nation with 1.2 million computers, a server in each school, a team of technical advisers, satellite internet service and other infrastructure.
The One Laptop per Child project, which has the support of the United Nations Development Programme, aims to provide laptops to school-aged children worldwide for about $100 each. It has reached tentative purchase agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand.
Appealing project
Negroponte, a computer researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, said he had met with Moammar al-Gadhafi and the project appealed to the Libyan leader's political agenda of creating a more open Libya and consolidating his position as an African leader.
The two men discussed the possibility that Libya would also pay for laptops for poorer African nations like Chad, Niger and Rwanda, said Negroponte, who is the brother of John Negroponte, the US National Intelligence Director.
Al-Gadhafi surprised the world in late 2003 when he and announced plans to dismantle his country's weapons of mass destruction programs. Libya was eager to end the international isolation and economic hardships from United Nations and US sanctions. The US has since opened an embassy in Tripoli.
Mass production
Test models of the computers will be distributed to the participating countries in November, and mass production is expected to begin by July 2007, he said. They are to be produced by Taiwanese computer maker Quanta Computer Inc.
The machines are to be equipped with hand cranks or foot pedals, so that children can use them when electricity is too costly or not available. Expected to initially cost $150 (ª 120) and then be reduced in price, they will have wireless network access and run on an open-source operating system, such as Linux.
The project was inspired by Negroponte's experience giving internet-connected laptops to children in Cambodia. He said the first English word spoken by those children was "Google."
You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FDFF80E0-0E4B-4825-A1E7-5A413C03157B.htm
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ranga
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Posted - 12 Oct 2006 : 02:19:43
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Momodou, I read this story this morning in The New York Times as well. Good news indeed. I wish them well. Volume production will lower the price for other countries as well. I will eagerly watching their progress.
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T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan
Founder, Geoseed Project
http://www.geoseedproject.com
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