[iDC] One Laptop Per Child - MIT/Negroponte Initiative

[R Labossiere]

One Laptop Per Child - MIT/Negroponte InitiativeThanks for letting us know about this Paul. It's is a very interesting initiative. I've signed up for notification of the release. My 10 year old is very interested. I'm very interested. Both of us curious about the laptop itself, how it teaches and what. It's definitely a sweet looking instrument.

So I am on board... but that said, here on the list I can say that I am not without skepticism... is this not another Western populist effort to "help" the "rest of the world," where "help assumes a priviledge which most of us don't actually share, and "rest of the world" assumes that we can short cut past government and institutions and "people to people" create a revolution... how  is that supposed to work when we can't even get George Bush out of the White House? 

I admit I'm confused. What happened to the the days when "red" meant a different kind of government and not a campaign where you are supposed to buy your way to social justice?

- just asking



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul D. Miller 
  To: idc at mailman.thing.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:21 PM
  Subject: [iDC] One Laptop Per Child - MIT/Negroponte Initiative


  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/One_Laptop_per_Child


  As a method of provoking some kind of discourse around - gasp - digital media in a multi-cultural digital arts context, I wanted to post this to the list. Several artists, composers, writers, code script folks, and many other creatives participated in the project.


  The One Laptop Per Child is a global initiative to foster education in digital media throughout "under-developed" countries.


  Bundled into the software for the One Laptop Per Child project, there will be a couple of compilations of electronic music to get the kids into the idea of contemporary composition and digital literacy. I donated beats, scratches, and various midi components for the project, as did several other electronic and digital media artists from a wide variety of cultures (and ethnic groups). The software is all open source, and the templates and core kernels are in Linux. The tracks are all remixable and come in separate components.


  The software for the project was compiled with Jamendo:


  Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/fr/artist/Beatpick/


  The laptops will be released in November. Please check out the material! Debate/discussion is welcome!


  in peace,
  Paul aka Dj Spooky


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