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What Would Homer Simpson Do? Your Messages and the Emerging Science of Behavioral Economics

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Join them and reuse your towel to help save the environment. Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. Tags: E-mail Newsletter NPTech NTEN Communications. Frances Osborne's The Bolter is an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection. Buy it now. The answer? And you can too.

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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. When you're trying to reach out to people, are you trying to reach out to all people or just the people in the environments that you understand? The digital divide doesn't exist.

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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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