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Nigerian Kids Turn On With OLPC Laptops

Children are working on their OLPC laptops in a school 10 miles outside the capital of Nigeria, Abuja. This school was selected by Khaled Assounah, Director of Nicholas Negraponte’s One Laptop Per Child Program (OLPC) who spent a year touring schools in Nigeria. For the full story from Nigeria, see CNET, and here for more […]

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Twitter in Africa and Virtual Worlds
On Your Cell Phone

Please see Soyapi Mumba’s, (Liloge, MW), post on Twitter and its possibilities in Africa where the use of mobile phones is much higher than that of computers. Mumba also links to some interesting new uses for Twitter that extend the genre of “what I am doing now” in interesting ways. For example, “The train system […]

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Virtual Worlds ’07: Philip Rosedale, Second Life
and Positive Global Development

Day One of the Virtual Worlds 2007, NYC. Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Labs gave the opening presentation at VW ‘o7, 9am. In an auditorium jam packed with a Fortune 500 crowd gathered to look at, “The Future of Marketing and Media,” Philip Rosedale/Linden stayed true to his visionary, futurist roots. His talk […]

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