As part of effort to mobilize the stakeholders in educational sector and disabilities to support One Laptop Per Child project www.laptop.org in the School for The Handicapped Agodi Gate Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. OLPCorps Team paid a visit to the Special Assistant to the Oyo State Governor on Disabilities, Barrister Ayodele Adekanmbi a blind trained lawyer in his office.
In Kenya, WiHood is being used by remote village schools using a mobile data connection (GPRS) which provides more then enough bandwidth for an excellent WiHood virtual PC experience. The schools will soon setup a WiFi network to so the other 4 old PCs can also run WiHood and benefit more students, simultaneously (but most likely it will not be as fast an experience). If there is no internet connection, then of course the service will not function but I am continuously informed of mobile data networks in the most remote regions in the devloping world and at very low prices.
Thomas, Interesting concept, but how does a Cloud Computing required device work in a low-to-no bandwidth setting? In the schools we're talking about Internet access is usually rare and infrequent, if it exists at all. A Cloud Computing solution, while relevant to developed world schools, does not see applicable here.
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This is welcome news:
The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees.
Russian human rights Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped and murdered in the North Caucasus yesterday. Estemirova was abducted near her home in Chechnya and her body was found in Ingushetia. She had been investigating human rights abuses for the Memorial Group, an independent human rights organization.
After our second day of training we were not sure how to move forward. We knew that we were making progress and that it is dificult to learn a new technology, but at the same time we could sense some problems with our process. Some of the teachers commented that while it may be nice to take pictures, that is not the point of their class. We debated the merits of explaining contructionism and how it is learning to take pictures and to use a computer, or to just see if we could tailor our teaching to our trainees.
