I put up a few photos I took the other day at WSIS, of the Laptop physical
mockup, a Beta running version which I got to play with for a couple of
minutes, and the interested crowds, as seen from inside the booth. There
are also a couple of shots from the UNESCO meeting on making the Knowledge
Society work, where Nick Negroponte had an interesting exchange with the
Communications Minister of (I think) Mali, who was trying to decide how
much of his budget to spend on ICT infrastructure.
Take a look at:
http://www.terryking.us/photos/WSIS2005/$100laptop
Other Subject: Negroponte also made a controversial prediction, during a
discussion of multilingualism, that at some future time, there would be one
world language, and the "Local" languages would be "Second languages".
Pressed on what the "Universal" language would be, he said "A mixture of
English and Chinese"...
Regards, Terry King ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage, Tunisia
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