Archive for May, 2007
Forget about the $100 laptop
0 Comments Published by tobias.escher May 10th, 2007 in *OIINEWS, all the restenter: the $10 laptop. After having declined to participate in the One Laptop Per Child project India is now apparently trying to develop a cheap laptop for educational purposes by itself.
3 good things about facebook
0 Comments Published by tobias.escher May 7th, 2007 in facebook, social networkingI guess it had to happen at some point: I’m on facebook now. The main reasons for my resistance so far have been that I do actually like to have a tiny bit of privacy left – something that I see violated once random pictures link to you and more private information. Anyway, officially I [...]
collection of e-participation projects in Germany and UK
4 Comments Published by tobias.escher May 2nd, 2007 in *OIINEWS, Germany, political participationA new website by the British Council in Germany and German political web-zine politik-digital aims to collect websites of e-participation projects in Germany and the UK. It’s available at: http://www.e-participation.net (No worries, the whole site is in English)
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Since October 2006 I am both a DPhil student as well as a research assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute and here I share with the accidental reader my musings on different aspects of the Internet and society. Feel free to comment or simply ignore :-)
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