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Five Countries May Try $100 Laptop By John Markoff THE NEW YORK TIMES CAMBRIDGE, MASS. When computer industry executives heard about a plan to build a $100 laptop for the developing world’s children, they generally ridiculed the idea. How could you build such a computer, they asked, when screens alone cost about $100? Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as “a really wacky idea.”

These came from a Prato conference on community informatics held this fall in Europe. Here are the 103 questions that were raised through group process at the Prato Community Informatics Conference workshops. If you go to www.ccnr.webstylus.net/wiki you can see hyperlinks to some of the answers. If you would like to add any answers please go to the website and add

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/110/next-good-money.html New Profit Make money. Change the world. Better yet, says Good Capital, do both. From: Issue 110 | November 2006 | Page 32 | By: Cheryl Dahle | Illustrations by: Anthony Freda Lee Zimmerman hoped to offer investors the best of both worlds: They could put money into a booming tourism business while providing job opportunities for inner-city youth--do well and do good. But his business, Evergreen Lodge, a mountain resort in Yosemite National Park staffed by urban teens, just confused potential investors, who were wary of mixing charity and investing.

From: Paul-Brian McInerney Date: Nov 8, 2006 11:34 AM Subject: CFP-"State of the Art in Nonprofit Technology" To: ARNOVA-L@listserv.wvu.edu Apologies for cross-posting. __ Organizations in the nonprofit and voluntary sector have recognized that information technologies are a vital part of their effective mission achievement. While a large and growing body of practical  … Read more »

Hi all - Please find below information re: 4-12 month paid internships with Telecentre.org at the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Under the terms of IDRC's charter and funding priorities, these are open to NATIONALS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (OR CANADIANS) ONLY (dual citizens would also be eligible). Note also that the posted start date of January 2007 is negotiable, and interested SI candidates could almost certainly negotiate a May start date to coincide with the Michigan summer break.