[Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop

[Joanne Jacobs]

I've just discussed this on my blog, and while I'm a fan, I'm concerned
about the business logistics of releasing the device among nations that will
incubate a grey market for the product and possibly also develop scam
imitations of the MIT-developed device. 

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Joanne Jacobs, Project Manager
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID)
A Commonwealth Cooperative Research Centre
http://www.joannejacobs.net/


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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtslander at sask.usask.ca>
> Date: September 28, 2005 7:33:45 PM EDT
> To: schoolforge-discuss at schoolforge.net
> Subject: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop
> Reply-To: schoolforge-discuss at schoolforge.net
>
>
> Came across these sites:
>
> haven't noticed this being discussed here.
>
> A $100.00 dollar laptop running linux - intended for education in the
> developing world - and likely very practical for the developed  
> world to.
>
> http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935&tag=nl.e589
>
> prototype to be released at  World Summit on the Information  
> Society (WSIS)
> http://www.itu.int/wsis/ in November.
>
> It looks like it is intended to support tablet style use (in  
> addition to a
> keyboard)- so one can use it without using a keyboard.  This opens  
> many
> avenues.
>
> Gord
> -- 
> Gordon J. Holtslander     /     Dept. of Biology
> holtslander at sask.usask.ca  /    University of Saskatchewan
> tel 306 966-4433          /     112 Science Place
> fax 306 966-4461          /     Saskatoon, SK Canada
>                           /     S7N 5E2
>

Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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