Archive for the ‘ict4d’ tag
‘Inside the OLPC’ video
It’s not a product at all — it’s a global humanitarian cause.
On PTB: Content delivery via internet shops
I’ve posted on Pinoy Tech Blog my thoughts on delivering services and content through internet rental shops.
$100 laptop first photos
Taken at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu. 1st working model (OLPC). Originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.
Sweet.
The first working models of MIT’s $100 laptop (the One Laptop Per Child project) are out and were presented at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting last 23 May 2006.
The colors are nice — how very, uhm, Ubuntu. (The prototype runs on Fedora Core 5, though. ;))
View the rest of the Flickr set. Via Boing Boing.
And they’re off
Photo credits: Toni Kindipan, PhilRice
The ICT Roadshow is off to Northern Luzon. Yesterday, they were in Bacnotan, La Union, and now they’ve stopped in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. View the ICT Roadshow Google Maps mashup.
Catching mice
Photo credits: Stoix Pascua, PhilRice
Extension workers in our recent basic ICT training had a hard time using the mouse. Makes me wonder if we are using the right medium for delivering agricultural information to our, er, clients (farm technicians, agricultural extensionists and farmers).
Of course, there’s always mobile phones and text messaging, but there are technical constraints — you can only squeeze so much info in that small screen. If only we can find a way to connect our clients through that ubiquitous medium in a richer manner. Mobile 2.0, perhaps? In the countryside? We’ll see.
