The Secret Sauce in Technology For Development isn’t the Tech.
Ushahidi’s Patrick Meier has a fantastic graph of deployment time for Ushahidi’s amazing crisis-mapping solution (which has been deployed for such diverse p...
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Put your technology where your solution will be
The Technology Salon on SMS4D covered a lot of ground in a few hours, but the reverberating sentiment was the power of mobile technology at the local/regiona...
Ubuntu 10: Worth the wait
Just a quick note: Ubuntu 10 totally rocks. Better digital video and audio support (via HDMI and toslink) than Windows 7, slicker than Mac OSX with a great ...
Going Nuts over the Value of Local Production
For some background, I highly recommend Alanna Shaikh’s post here: https://aidwatchers.com/2010/04/the-plumpy%E2%80%99nut-dustup/ and follow-up here: https:/...
Waiting for Ubuntu 10
I finally broke down and bought a laptop, as my existing bevy of half-working laptops is now seriously impacting my ability to actually get things done, as o...
Nevermind: OLPC shouldn’t sell the XO laptop
OLPC News recently ran a (somewhat tongue-in-cheek article on How to buy an XO Laptop, which mainly pointed people to eBay. Which is sad, but eBay has long ...
SXSW 2010
I made it to South By Southwest this year, where I immersed myself in innovative ideas for open-sourced businesses, technology design for good, social media ...
ICT4D Meetup in Austin during SXSW
In Austin for South By SouthWest? Join folks interested in ICT for development at the Gingerman (3rd and Lavaca) from 4-7pm on Sunday! I’ll bring my OLPC f...
The OLPC Vaporware Product Line Vs. the iPad
iPad or OLPC? Update: the EE Times has a great, similar article on the OLPC fantasy vs Apple reality. So, the XO-2 has moved from promise to hope to scrap,...
The OLPC Haiti Project Reports Back
When the IDB plans to “evaluate its performance from a quantitative standpoint,” it’s a good sign that they mean to do just that. The XO project in Haiti, d...
I’m Still Not Convinced
At the IADB seminar on ICT in the classroom, I asked Nicholas Negroponte why not sell the XO laptop – at or near cost – to anyone who wanted one? This gets ...
Behind the Wire: How To build your own news portal
</a> ServiceWire.org is a refreshed version of a news system that’s been part of YSA’s servenet.org toolset for years. In fact, when servenet.org was ...
The Inter-American Development Bank and ICT4Edu
Today’s IADB event, Reinventing the Classroom, brought together thought-leaders, practitioners and government officials to discuss the role of technology in ...
In Defense of the Laptop
Reading Alanna Shaikh’s writeup on the OLPC Program as a failure in the UNDispatch and clicking through to Timothy Ogden’s harsh commentary, I began to feel ...
ICTs in the Classroom: Next Thursday at the IADB
Next Thursday at the IADB is a huge event delving into the role of ICTs in the classroom, with heavy-hitters including Nicholas Negroponte of OLPC, Tabaré Vá...