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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Brett Meyer, NTEN. The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. This allows us to leverage basic phones that are already in most people’s pockets and work in environments where there is still no GSM data connectivity. .

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