White House blog: Apps4Africa offers promising technology for education and economic development
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/29/apps4-africa-state-department-driving-collaboration-through-competition
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Sensors and solar power, satellite photos and tracing paper, eBooks and RFID scan-art, all using the world's favorite little green laptop
Where is Kasiisi, Uganda?
What sensors will you use?
- Temperature
- Light/Solar Energy
- GPS
- RFID
- Arduino board as a data recorder and interpreter
- Solar Panel and Charger
- pH Litmus paper
- Pocket Microscope
- Paper and pencils
Free and Open Source Software
If you don't have one of OLPC's XO laptops, you can run the same software on any computer from a USB disk. Follow online directions to install Sugar on a Stick.
If you want to use the laptops to make new lesson ideas, to code, or for humanitarian work, you can get a few from the Contributors Program.
Key activities:
If you want to use the laptops to make new lesson ideas, to code, or for humanitarian work, you can get a few from the Contributors Program.
Key activities:
- Measure Kasiisi - specially reprogrammed to teach the sensors listed above. Displays realtime values, graphs, and longterm collected data.
- Offline Map - an internet-optional mapping platform available for five countries. Map points, roads, and buildings; write descriptions with your photos and Wikipedia articles; explore other cities. Online Version
- SocialCalc - a spreadsheet and charts program which can be shared between multiple laptops. Now available in Mongolian.
- Get Books and Media - eBook search application, now with audio/video media links. Designed to work with older OLPCs and the school server.
- Browse for internet access, Write for making reports, and other standard activities
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