One Laptop Per Child

5 College Students Work To Bring Solar Power To 1 Million Homes In Africa

Neil Parmar | Posted 05.07.2012

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"How will you change the world?" That was the question posed at the launch of the third annual Hult Global Case Challenge, which tackles global pover...

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One Laptop Per Child

Ketaki Desai | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Rwanda, Energy Nonprofit, One Laptop Per Child, Hult Global Case Challenge, Carnegie Mellon, Impact News

"You don't have to change the world by yourself," is our advice to anyone interested in championing for a social cause, as a takeaway from our experience with the Hult Global Case Challenge.

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How Haute Couture Can Explain mHealth

Tom Murphy | Posted 01.30.2012

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As the mHealth hype grows the focus upon what ideas will lead to actual solutions cannot be lost. Ambition will lead to innovations, but poorly constructed ideas will lead to miserable failures.

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IBM To Fund Tech-Savvy New York Public School

Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Bloomberg announced Monday that the City University of New York and IBM will team up to open a school, grades nine through 14, that will guarant...

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Chatroulette Is Cleaning Up its Act

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chatroulette is trying to block users who expose themselves to minors. The company says it has captured thousands of IP addresses of alleged offenders, along with logs and screenshots that prove illicit behavior.

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Will the Internet Delete Rwanda's Past? A Look at Wifi and Development

xxxxAnnemarieDoolingxxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

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The future looks bright for the advancement of this Third world and it's hopes for widespread online access. But there are major problems that even booming telecom cannot solve.

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Can Technology Solve The World's Problems?

guardian.co.uk | Eliza Anyangwe | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems improbable that in parts of the world where there is little sanitation or electricity and the largely illiterate population are subsistence f...

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One Laptop Per Child A Huge Success, Founder Says

Posted 05.25.2011

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has been a huge success, says founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte. His most convincing argument? Truancy ...

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Goodbye, Western Union? Overseas Remittances Now ATM to ATM

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cash remittances allow people living in cash-hungry countries to receive funds from friends and relatives in cash positive-countries. Before the eart...

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One Laptop Per Child (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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The One Laptop per Child organization says they have shipped more than 500,000 connected, solar-capable laptops to kids in underdeveloped nations. The...

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How To Give A Little But Get A Lot

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

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It's that time of year again. But this holiday season feels different, doesn't it? Lots of people are shifting their gift giving practices so that the...

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Give A Laptop, Get A Laptop, Change The World

Nicholas Negroponte | Posted 11.17.2011

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Any really big problem - peace, poverty, the environment - will have many solutions, plural. All of them will include a component of education; some o...

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"One Laptop Per Child" Founder Slams Intel

Wall Street Journal | STEVE STECKLOW | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nicholas Negroponte, founder of a nonprofit initiative to sell low-cost laptops to developing countries, lashed out at Intel Corp., which he accused o...

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Non-Profit Offers "Buy One, Get One Free" Program For Charity Laptops

New York Times | STEVE LOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing world's children, has considerable momentum. Years of work by engineer...

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