This project has been talked about a lot. Interesting presentation was from Michail Bletasas, a MIT engineer working on the project. Besides the technical challenges, there are the social issues. The idea is to put a simple laptop into the hands of children in many developing countries. The capabilities of children is important to the idea. Children explore and learn ...

I wasn’t able  to attend day 1 of the Net2 conference because of a family emergency. But I’m here and trying to catch up now. I’m in a session moderated by Scott Case and and with industry leaders, Dan’l Lewin and Gido Jouret. Topic is about the imact on society of networked systems and broadband. Jeffrey Moore–context vs content–recommended.as good ...

If you want to check-in on the NetSquared Conference from time to time next Tuesday and Wednesday, go to this link and see the list of people who’ll be in online chat hourly during the conference or the “hallway chat” that is like bumping into people in the hall at a conference. You’ve got to hand it to Net2 for ...

Here’s an article from the NY Times about a charity that invites its donors to a “shareholders’  meeting” to show them how the money is spent.  They bring donors and beneficiaries in for a kind of get-together.