Thursday, April 12, 2007

FINALLY FRIDAY AT THE YNOT TIMES


FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS

THE XO COMPUTER

LOOK WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CLASSROOMS OF AFRICA

Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school 10 miles outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to deploy the company's first child-friendly laptops in the region.

Hassounah shows the students how to boot up their open-source laptops. The bright colors were designed to appeal to children, but the bug-like antennae are mostly practical. Two wireless receptors magnify the laptop's ability to net an Internet connection, which varies in availability throughout the test regions.

Credit: Ahmad Dan-Hamidu


THIS STORY IS FROM CNET.COM

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