You may know about One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Sugar, and the many projects inspired by this initiative. You may not know Edward Mokurai Cherlin or of his plans for OLPC: Education, economic development, global commerce, all in an environmentally friendly, fair-trade context -- plus ending poverty at a profit. All in less than 40 minutes of conversation.
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bogdanbiv
16 years 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago
Internet for the poor? I'm in! What can I help with?
This guy is truely marvelous. He seems perfectly equipt to end poverty and higher up the availabilty of internet connections in poor countries.
I belive that the Internet is essential to the development and spread of Linux - so this can only be a good thing.