education

One Laptop Per Child (aka the crank-driven mesh network)

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$100 laptop prototypes, originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has launched an initative to develop a $100 laptop for children in developing countries just a bit over a year ago. So far […]


Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems

The Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems: a user-friendly guide for policymakers and technologists offerings tools for understanding, creating, and sustaining open information and communication technologies ecosystems.
Good stuff. If you’re interested at all in open systems, don’t miss out on this one. The roadmap was put together by the Harvard Law School.
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Online Lectures

Stylewalker had the idea to collect links to all the free online lectures out there. There’s probably more than a handful of universities and research institutes which offer their classes online & for free. That’s free, accessible knowledge right at our fingertips. So why let it go to waste? So we thought: Why not collect […]