Archive for May, 2008
$100 laptop redesign
The new laptop design for the one-laptop-per-child project is fabulous! They have removed the keyboard and replaced it by a touch screen. This turns into a touch sensitive keyboard during normal operation, and the laptop can be used as an e-book reader otherwise. And the price is $75, which sounds too good to be true.
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Vox populi, vox Dei
Gram-Vaani is a novel concept, kudos to the Aaditeshwar and the team for coming up with this innovative project! We are now talking of a world in which every village is connected to the information highway using cheap computers as radio transmitters. So villagers would have access to news and views from all over [...]
Read More..>>Gram-Vaani is a winner in the prestigious Knight News Challenge!
The announcement is finally public! Gram-Vaani is one of the 16 winners in the Knight News Challenge for 2008! This is a wonderful moment for all of us who were involved in the proposal writing and editing process. We submitted the first version of the proposal in August 2007, and after many many iterations and [...]
Read More..>>Khabar Laharia
This is a truly remarkable story! Khabar Lahariya is a rural newspaper run by women in Chitrakoot. It was started in 2002 pretty much as an experiment, but has since emerged as a symbol of women empowerment and democratic participation by the oft-neglected rural and tribal populations of India. They now boast a circulation across [...]
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