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OLPC: ignoring the mobile phone revolution
As reported today by the Associated Press, the One Laptop Per Child project has announced that they are switching to tablet mode. I have never been a big fan of this project, primarily because its main goal -- to produce a $100 laptop -- always seemed to me something that the market would inevitably produce with or without OLPC: consumer electronics manifestly get better and cheaper every year without any charitable intervention.
One Cellphone Per Child
In a PC Magazine article (see our news archive), Dan Costa discusses the great advances in mobile technology use in developing countries -- highlighting something we've known for a long time: mobile phones are the computing platform "for the rest of us", if "the rest of us" actually means the entire world population, and not just the rich world population.
DataDyne.org in PC Magazine
"With contributors all over the world, DataDyne.org, a nonprofit open-source software organization, is working on health-care solutions that take advantage of the mobile infrastructures. Its EpiSurveyor mobile public health data collection toolkit can be used to collect health-care information, monitor infection patterns, and coordinate treatment. Working with the Vodafone Group Foundation and the U.N. Foundation, DataDyne.org recently completed a pilot of EpiSurveyor in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Zambia that is very promising."
