Wow! Nice! On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > This came in via Twitter. > > https://twitter.com/OLPC/status/534364032598540288 > > > From their site: > > "The 'One Laptop Per Child' project aims to give children from the > world's poorest and most isolated corners access to the Internet's > infinite world of knowledge. In the deserted Peruvian village Antuyo > live a hundred inhabitants. They live in isolation from modern society > and their way of life is unaffected by the technological developments > of the past two centuries. All this changes when a boat arrives in the > village with 14 laptops, a generator and a satellite dish. 5-year-old > Roy goes to school the next day and is for the first time introduced > to what is now to be the instrument of his learning. In 'Web', Michael > Kleiman has closely followed the project's expansion to Peru, from > Roy's first tentative keystrokes on the white keyboard and all its > teething problems. An optimistic film about the new opportunities, > communities and changes that modern technology brings with it." > > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Professor, Information Systems > San Francisco State University > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://commons.sfsu.edu/ > http://olpcsf.org/ > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > grassro...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
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