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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 13, 2016
Toyama on that issue: If a private company is failing to make a profit, no one expects that state-of-the-art data centers, better productivity software, and new laptops for all of the employees will turn things around. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
On my first day in Guatemala, a freak hard-drive meltdown relegated my work laptop to a paperweight. Indeed, much of our work in Guatemala centered on framing our partners’ substantive questions in a way we could actually answer using Archive data. Being flexible in finding new solutions was also critical to my success in the internship.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 29, 2010
She gets around this by downloading Bookshare texts on her laptop, enlarging the font, and scrolling through the text with the down arrow key on her keyboard. Bookshare provides Jessica with books for her English literature class and her personal reading where her tastes run toward young adult fiction.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 28, 2007
Of course, I caught the 2 am train and ended up in the lounge of the Schatzalp talking about the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project and getting a CD of Amazonian music from my Brazilian buddies (the big column in Brazil's major Sao Paolo paper was entitled (Jungle Boys go to Davos!). If you miss it, the next train is at 6 am!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 12, 2006
As we pulled into the outsourcing zone, my laptop was registered at the gate. Mumbai's traffic is such that it could easily take 90 minutes during rush hour to get to the zone where much of the outsourcing work occurs.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 29, 2004
Laptops roasting by a wood fire. Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 24, 2006
One of the best memories of Isaac was standing in the Schatzalp hotel holding a laptop to his ear like it was a cell phone, because someone had made a Skype connection to Nigeria. His social entrepreneurial effort is making plastic toilets (Porta-potties in California parlance) and providing them to unemployed widows and youth to create jobs.
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