Tag: Asia
May
17
2007
Room to Read
by Bilingual Librarian
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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...
May
08
2007
Fuel for thought
by Bilingual Librarian
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Now when pollution and global warming seem to be an accepted concern, people around the world are trying to come up with new option for running their cars (instead of...
Apr
04
2007
OpenCourseWare in Chinese
by Bilingual Librarian
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As mentioned in a previous post, OpenCourseWare is a project which aims at providing high quality educational material on the web for free. Lucifer Chu, a man who became wealthy...
Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World
OLPC – One Laptop per Child
by Bilingual Librarian
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...
Mar
12
2007
OpenCourseWare
by Bilingual Librarian
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I’m still not over my fascination with open source, so here is more on the subject… I just learned about the OpenCourseWare which “is a free and open digital publication...