Comments on: One Laptop per Child http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/ The premier destination for African-American’s in Technology and New Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:17:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: angela http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-316 angela Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:13:56 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/#comment-316 @ Mega: Great suggestion, check out the latest post to stay updated on where we are with the pledges. @ Ken: I agree the US needs to purchase one if not for every child in America then for those children that are in lower income school districts where most don't have computers at home. Doing something like this is a great way for the government to aide in closing what is left of the Digital Divide. @ Mega: Great suggestion, check out the latest post to stay updated on where we are with the pledges.

@ Ken: I agree the US needs to purchase one if not for every child in America then for those children that are in lower income school districts where most don’t have computers at home. Doing something like this is a great way for the government to aide in closing what is left of the Digital Divide.

]]> By: Update: One Laptop per Child | Black Web 2.0 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Update: One Laptop per Child | Black Web 2.0 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:07:55 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/#comment-315 [...] recently wrote a post about One Laptop per Child, an initiative to supply laptops to children in underdeveloped countries, and got a good response [...] [...] recently wrote a post about One Laptop per Child, an initiative to supply laptops to children in underdeveloped countries, and got a good response [...]

]]> By: Mega http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Mega Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:52:42 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/#comment-282 Thanks for posting this. While there has been reasonable coverage of this venture in the mainstream media, I don't get the sense that there is widespread participation in this program. This a tremendous opportunity to empower future generations, and children disenfranchised from the online community across the Diaspora and other countries who are not active participants in the flattening of the world by way of digital economics. If everyone on this blog pooled their funds together to purchase several of these laptops, we could make a very loud statement about the altruistic sensibility that I believe is a strong characteristic of the Black Digerati. I pledge $100, who will join me before 11/26 to pledge $299 more? Thanks for posting this. While there has been reasonable coverage of this venture in the mainstream media, I don’t get the sense that there is widespread participation in this program. This a tremendous opportunity to empower future generations, and children disenfranchised from the online community across the Diaspora and other countries who are not active participants in the flattening of the world by way of digital economics. If everyone on this blog pooled their funds together to purchase several of these laptops, we could make a very loud statement about the altruistic sensibility that I believe is a strong characteristic of the Black Digerati. I pledge $100, who will join me before 11/26 to pledge $299 more?

]]> By: Ken Gibbs Jr http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Ken Gibbs Jr Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:46:16 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/#comment-279 The US needs to purchase one for every seat in every public school! The US needs to purchase one for every seat in every public school!

]]> By: Anthony Farrior http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Anthony Farrior Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:15:18 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/11/12/one-laptop-per-child/#comment-276 Great starter laptop! The operating system is Linux,so it's incredbly flexible and hackable. Most of the "Third world Countries"are already familiar with linux since it's open source and free. The camara is actually ok. A little girl already used it to film a farm animal give birth. This right here is the real WEB 2.0 ... Great starter laptop! The operating system is Linux,so it’s incredbly flexible and hackable. Most of the “Third world Countries”are already familiar with linux since it’s open source and free. The camara is actually ok. A little girl already used it to film a farm animal give birth. This right here is the real WEB 2.0 …

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