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Dear Colleague,
Change is in the air. Can you feel it?
As 2006 draws to a close, there is no question: Change is happening. Change for the better. A movement from conversation to strategy, strategy to action, and action to results.
Around the globe, significantly more people are connected to the world than a just a year ago. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) device is rolling off the production line, and will represent the “ultimate” Learning Lab as it makes its way into children’s hands early next year. Terrific new solutions are appearing on multiple continents, and even more are being developed for the “Connecting the World” Design Contest held this month in Latin America. More importantly, solutions deployed a year ago are still working and still relevant. The momentum is building: government leaders, NGOs and foundations are seeing the progress, and have visibly shifted their activities to harness technology as never before. Read more »
Dan Shine
50x15 Program Director
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The “Centro Social Nossa Senhora das Graças” (CSG) Learning Lab
CSG was launched in 1997 as a collaboration between NGOs and religious organizations in the low-income Osasco community of Jardim Conceição, São Paulo, Brazil. In the fall of 2005, AMD, under the aegis of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) IT Access for Everyone (ITAFE) initiative, helped develop and launch the first Internet access and computer education program at the CSG facilities.
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Pay As You Grow
Microsoft® FlexGo™ technology enables pricing models that make computers affordable in emerging markets. When consumers in the developed world want to purchase a new computer, most simply log on to a PC manufacturer’s Web site or trek down to the mall and get one. It’s easy to forget that there are still parts of the world in which owning a PC is an unattainable luxury.
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Winners Announced in 50x15 ‘Connecting the World’ Design Contest
The winning teams of the inaugural “Connecting the World” product design contest were announced last Wednesday, December 13. The team from the University of Chile received the Chairman’s Award for GOTA, an affordable Internet connectivity solution that local water utility companies would commercialize for rural populations. The team from UnicenP, a university in Brazil, received the Judges’ Award for E-Cipó, an Internet access terminal that utilizes GPRS wireless technology to connect to television sets via UHF signals thus eliminating the need for a computer monitor.
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