Warren Shiau in the The Globe and Mail (Toronto) covers the Little Green Laptop story with deserving urgency and a bit of analysis.
In a turn of brilliance, the program requires national governments to purchase these things -- with flash memory instead of a hard drive (for durability) and wind-up crank for power -- in quantities of 1,000,000 units. This creates instant ubiquity to prevent the poor kids or elders from selling them on for the cash.
Nick Negroponte, who runs the $100 Laptop program from MIT's Media Lab, has the UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, on board. (If the UN General Secretary can't make time for the Little Green Laptop, then he needs a lobotomy.)
Says Annan, "We urge leaders and stakeholders … to do their utmost in ensuring that the initiative is fully incorporated into their efforts to build an inclusive information society."
Asks Shiau, 'Does "inclusive" mean exclusive of Microsoft?'
If Microsoft is feeling excluded from these kinds of open standards initiatives, it is of Microsoft's own volition. That company should really open up because it's taking itself out of all the fun.
The Little Green Laptop is an OpenDocument fait accompli. What's your best guess? Do we break 1 Billion of these by 2008, 2010 or 2012?
The next Andy Grove might come from Rwanda...or The Bronx or London or Queensland or Nairobi or...
You can offer practically any kind of service using the internet. You just have to make sure there is a market for it and that you can actually fulfill job orders. Some of the most common internet jobs involve clerical jobs such data entry, performing tasks as a virtual assistant, web development, word processing, telemarketing, book keeping and others. You can work as a copy writer, be a sales representative or even become a pro-blogger. You can set up a business that targets clients in your own town or people halfway around the globe.
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Posted by: John | October 29, 2007 at 02:43 AM