I’ve taken to thinking about the One Laptop Per Child project in terms of three tiers: hardware, software/content and usage/support. In describing my enthusiasm for… Read More »One Laptop Per Child: Just what sort of content do you load onto these puppies?
I haven’t written much about the One Laptop Per Child initiative in the past few months. This isn’t because little has happened with the project… Read More »The article I didn’t write.
I really enjoyed my time at the Berkman Center/Sunlight Foundation meeting earlier this week, but felt a little out of place. Sunlight’s focus is primarily… Read More »Looking beyond the US for activist inspiration
After lunch, the Sunlight/Berkman conference moved to a format that I usually find pretty painful – the Speed Geek session. In these sessions, people give… Read More »Ten democracy projects in seventy minutes
Dan Newman, the executive director of MAPLight, shows off some of the work he’s done, linking voting and funding information in California. MAPLight brings together… Read More »Introducing MAPLight to the Berkman/Sunlight conference
I’m spending a cold, rainy Martin Luther King’s day at Harvard Law School with a room full of geeks and political activists. It’s a day-long… Read More »Local online organizing at the Sunlight Foundation meeting