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…
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…
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…