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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? 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?

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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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