{"id":11,"date":"2008-03-27T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:42:55","slug":"olpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"OLPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2126\/2279733973_bab9ea758c_d.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia with OLPC\" align=\"left\" height=\"500\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"375\" \/>I must say that I am disheartened by the battering the OLPC project is taking in the last few months.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7171201.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Intel treachery<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.cbc.ca\/mp3\/searchengine_20080313_4973.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">privatization of OLPC technology<\/a><\/strong>,  and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jamesu\/archive\/2007\/12\/05\/olpc-in-the-news-part-2.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">rumblings of Windows<\/a><\/strong> is kicking up dust in Negroponte&#8217;s camp.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of these arguments, the underlying intent of the OLPC project is being lost.  The project was not about providing &#8216;cheap technology&#8217; to developing nations, but providing affordable, extensible technology for open learning in developing nations.  The alternate power source options, mesh networking, multi-lingual intuitive UI, and open access to any and all code on the OLPC are the project&#8217;s real strengths.  To my knowledge, none of these have been in the interests or business plans of Windows or Intel.  My kids share an OLPC and I am struck by how well the UI encourages them to explore and experiment.  Let&#8217;s hope this visionary project is not derailed by recent developments that truly divert the &#8216;cheap laptop&#8217; debates away from the OLPC&#8217;s real strengths and goals.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must say that I am disheartened by the battering the OLPC project is taking in the last few months. Intel treachery, privatization of OLPC technology, and rumblings of Windows is kicking up dust in Negroponte&#8217;s camp. In the midst of these arguments, the underlying intent of the OLPC project is being lost. The project&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-work","tag-olpc","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}