In this section I have placed all the stuff I’ve written in English.
(Click to enlarge this picture. Click here for the Original photo ) Liberacion Digital, is a Chilean activist group created in 2007 after a controversial agreement between the government of this country and Microsoft. A couple of days ago, one of Microsoft top executives, reacted very upset because of the permanent complaints promoted by...
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Although we are still at the first stages in the race for the global deployment of Wimax technology, heralded as the ‘next big thing’ in wireless Internet, it seems that we already have a new contender. And it comes from the third world. That’s right. According to a AFP press release, Honduras is preparing...
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Our favourite source of independent news about the ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD (OLPC) project has published a note we wrote about our campaing UCPN.CL. Here goes the intro and a summary but you can read the whole post in olpcnews.com After ten months of work I thought it might be time to summarize part...
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Updated: See bottom We the Chileans have always been obsessed with the idea of being the “˜English people of South America’. But, let’s be honest, apart from drinking tea (Chile is one of the top consumers in the world) and having an insane obsession for British indie music (we seem to have a Brit...
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I was invited to make a comparison of battery life between the XO-B2 from OLPC and the Classmate PC created by Intel. So I did it. However, for me this is not a fair test because the XO I have with me is not a finished product but a test prototype. Anyway, the purpose...
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One common mistake found when approaching OLPC campaigns is to think in terms of the wrong constituency. The aim should always be to convince politicians (ministers or members of parliament heading the governmental coalition), and educators (in schools and in the ministry of education). The constituency that matters to those groups are the kids...
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