Blog Juice for Educational Technology

While the $100 laptop certainly has captured my imagination, it isn’t intended for the entire world, just the children (that’s what the "C" in "OLPC" stands for). About a week before OLPC’s debut in Tunis, Nicholas Carr blogged about Ndiyo which innovates from an entirely different perspective:

"Instead of starting with a PC and seeing what we could take out, we began with a monitor and asked what was the minimum we had to add to give a workstation fully capable of typical ‘office’ use."

A visit to Ndiyo’s website makes it plain they are on to something and they recently posted how their approach is distinct from OLPC’s.