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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Brett Meyer, NTEN. Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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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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