Sunday, March 20, 2005
Digital Divide - $100 laptops and mobile phones ::
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After the piece from the BBC the other month about a Kenyan School using handhelds to access a central server with digitised textbooks, images, etc. comes a story about MIT's involvement in a project to produce a rugged Internet connected laptop for just $100. Could the digital divide become "merely" a question of education (rather than economics) before too long?
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The E-slates make sure information is up to date
After the piece from the BBC the other month about a Kenyan School using handhelds to access a central server with digitised textbooks, images, etc. comes a story about MIT's involvement in a project to produce a rugged Internet connected laptop for just $100. Could the digital divide become "merely" a question of education (rather than economics) before too long?
¶ 7:47 AM
[to Del.icio.us]
