Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Oh, what a small, interconnected world
The wonderful Glenna Gordon was doing her internet thing in Monrovia today, when a man named Lincoln came over and introduced himself. He had my business card, with Glenna’s email written on the back. “I’ve never seen your business card, but I recognized the picture from Twitter,” she said. And Lincoln, a friend of mine [...]
Hold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…
Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor. Turns out it went bust: Last week OLPC laid off half of its staff. Sales of its XO Laptop to developing nations are far, far below initial projections in the millions; [...]
Citizen diplomacy
This isn’t a Rwanda post, but I can’t help myself. Two guys, one from Israel, the other from Gaza, met at a youth dialogue camp, and as the violence there has gotten nasty again, have started blogging about…well, everything, but generically, peace. It’s a kind of joint diary that covers their own feelings, the things [...]
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