XOs in Colombia: Caldas, Itagüí, and wonderful tools
Tech Crunch TV interviewed Maureen Orth recently on the introduction of OLPC in rural Colombia on their tl:dw videocast. This was a timely reminder that Colombia has been building a network of...
View ArticleRepair workshop recap
Saturday’s OLPC Repair Fest clinic and training was a HUGE Success! Thanks to all those from around town who attended. Check out several videos & photos of the event care of Azamat Abdymomunov.
View ArticleCommunity Summit, Day 2
We have had an incredible 1.5 days thus far at the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2010. Mayor Gavin Newsom declared October 23, 2010 as One Laptop per Child Day in San Francisco! There are some...
View ArticleAn animated history of the Write activity
Bastien recently posted a video of the evolution of the code for Sugar’s Write activity. It’s a lovely visualization, and worth a look.
View ArticleTEDxRio : Rodrigo on OLPC and viewing children as our future
Rodrigo Arboleda spoke about OLPC at TEDxRio this week to a crowd of 800, with 7000 people watching online. The conference was a big hit in the Brazilian blogosphere, and one of the top trending...
View ArticleNN at the London Business Forum
A talk from the London Business Forum on ‘Imagination strategy‘: Where do new ideas come from? And, what environment generates them?
View ArticleBhagmalpur school project update
The OLPC Bhagmalpur project, which Sameer started in 2008 with support from the Digital Bridge Foundation, is finishing a renovation that will provide regular power from a generator at the local...
View Article4 years of Plan Ceibal: Much more than a computer
Last year, Uruguay published Plan Ceibal, the Book (with Prentice-Hall), describing the world’s first national-scale implementation of one laptop for every child. This month they released an amazing...
View ArticleNarrative Interfaces for OLPC
This Friday at 2pm EST, Scott and others will talk about how OLPC creates student-centric learning experiences, and how the software stack could become less shallow in terms of providing a narrative...
View ArticleNickelodeon partners with OLPC on multimedia contest
From the Very Exciting dept. : Nickelodeon Latin America (part of MTV Latin America) is partnering with OLPC to run an international contest to design multimedia about improving the environment....
View ArticleGrassroots work in East Timor
Tony Forster posted videos of recent work with OLPCs in East Timor. He has been travelling around the world helping smaller deployments for much of the past year; I last caught up with him at LinuxTag...
View ArticleNickelodeon / OLPCStories contest : only one week left to participate!
A month into our olpcstories contest with Nickelodeon Latin America, we have received some friendly media coverage in Latin America (in La Crónica in Mexico, and CanalAr in Argentina) and have gotten...
View ArticleDance Dance Revolution: Madagascar edition
If you haven’t seen it already, take 5 minutes to watch this ridiculously joyful clip from the pilot project in Nosy Komba, Madagascar, supported by OLPC France. If you have, it’s worth watching again...
View ArticleNicholas on Curiosity and other Big Questions
Nicholas shares his views on curiosity, big questions, and education: from Discovery.com.
View ArticleNicholas Negroponte at FOSI’s 6th Annual Conference
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of One Laptop Per Child presents “Learning without Schools” at FOSI’s 6th Annual Conference titled ‘A Safer Internet for All’ that took place November 14-15, 2012 in...
View ArticleWeb: The Film
What happens when children, isolated in the Peruvian Amazon, experience the Internet for the first time? Web explores the possibilities that emerge when the disconnected get online, and what it means...
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