Nicholas Negroponte, ex-head of MIT media labs and the driving force behind OLPC is claiming that his brainchild, the $100 laptop, is as vital to a child as a pencil. After a rash of recent press attacking the fundamentals of his project, Negroponte tagged the following soundbite to his response to those who doubt the project’s fundamental premises:
“I wonder if you would advocate one pencil per classroom, or a special room for all pencils, called a ‘writing room’.“
This is not the first time that his line has been trotted out by the OLPC. I came across this first whilst reading the FAQ section of their website:
Continue reading ‘$100 laptop is not a pencil’
So I finally got my own little anthropological pad… Read all about it here!
Continue reading ‘Little house in Bondo’
So, as you might have guessed from my earlier post about ADSL price hikes here in Kenya, I was mightily aggrieved at the time. I decided to send a version of my blog post to The Register to see if they were interested in the story. As it happens, they weren’t particularly, but they did get back to me with the following email:
Hello David.
Apologies for taking so long to get back to you.
Your tip is interesting, but I don’t think it is / was newsworthy for readers outside your country.
FYI we have approx. 4m readers a month - 75 per cent in US, UK and Canada. Around 10K readers a month hail from Kenya.
Best wishes
Drew Cullen
The Register
It’s interesting to know that so many Kenyans read this technology website. I was quite impressed by this figure.
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