Around me, Australians have been playing with their new coal-powered technology gifts. It is sad to recall that we cried poor as we stood at
the top of the CO2 heap, literally thumbing our noses at those in
Africa and the Pacific that cried out for help at Copenhagen. Here is a
more positive story. I have been reading over the blog stories posted by Beth Santos who is helping to deploy OLPC computers in a tiny and impoverished country in Africa. An extraordinary implementation is taking place in this tiny and impoverished country, thanks to people like her. <br>
<br>Think you have problems with Internet, electricity, hardware, language or just collecting a dollar for a school excursion? Think again as you cram all that packaging to make it fit into the recycling bin.<br><br>Regards Roland<br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Volunteer Beth Santos and her amazing OLPC/Sugar
deployment stories -- just having returned from Africa last week:<br><br>
<a href="http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://bethstepsup.blogspot.com</a><br>
<a href="http://xomike.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://xomike.blogspot.com</a><br><br>
Her enthusiasm around her work speaks for itself (do read above!) but
if
you need more background on Beth Santos, who is helping translate our
manual into Portuguese, start here:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/beth-santos/7/810/33a" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/beth-santos/7/810/33a</a><br>
<a href="http://www.bethsantos.com/" target="_blank">http://www.bethsantos.com</a><br>
<a href="http://letsgogirl.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://letsgogirl.wordpress.com</a><br><br></blockquote>
<span><br></span>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>