Tag: olpc
OLPC XO-2 goes Open Hardware
I admit to being a little gobstopped by Nicholas Negroponte’s announcment in the Guardian that the next generation OLPC will be Open Hardware is a pretty big deal. I picked up the announcement this morning from Make Magazine editor, Phil...
Action Talks, Armchair Pundits Walk
It is remarkable how polarised the discussion of the OLPC has become. You either love it or hate it. I have already said my own say about the value of the OLPC but there is one point that I don’t...
The OLPC Effect
he One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project comes in for a lot of criticism for being, among other things, “centralised and top-down”. Critics also argue that academia and philanthropy should not be interfering in areas where the market is clearly...