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How to Build Solutions for MOP and BOP
22 July 08 03:53 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Channel 9 ran is running an interview with with Tara Prakriya, a solutions architect here in the Unlimited Potential Group, as their featured video right now. Tara focuses on designing education solutions for poor schools and has some interesting ideas Read More...
Recent Recap (Rural)
15 July 08 04:32 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
I was out of the office over the last 5 weeks, and during that time we had a lot going on in the Unlimited Potential Group, especially around some of our efforts involving rural computing. For starters, we have posted a video and have engaged in a public Read More...
Look! Windows on the OLPC XO!
15 May 08 04:00 PM | jamesu | 1 Comments   
Today Microsoft and the OLPC are announcing support for Windows on the OLPC XO computer. The two organizations will work together on several pilot programs in emerging market countries starting next month, and the offering will RTM in August or September. Read More...
We Have a Name: "Creative Capitalism"
25 January 08 01:21 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Bill Gates gave a great speech at Davos this week around the concept of Creative Capitalism , an approach where governments, businesses, and non-profits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain Read More...
Cambridge
12 December 07 04:00 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
  A team of Microsoft people flew out to Cambridge, Mass. to meet with engineers from the OLPC Foundation yesterday. Here is a photo of my coworkers Bohdan Raciborski (demoing) and John Gunabal (smiling) as we showed some software to Walter Bender, Read More...
OLPC in the News (Part 2)
05 December 07 02:17 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Well, I will be flying out to Cambridge next week for my first meeting with some of the people at the OLPC , and I have to say I am looking forward to it. Some of my UPG co-workers from Microsoft have been meeting with the OLPC team for about a year now, Read More...
OLPC in the News ...
28 November 07 09:09 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Well, it seems like the OLPC organization is in the news a lot lately, even more so than usual. Stories that caught my eye over the last  week included a CNN report , a BBC story from Monday, and of course the Wall Street Journal page A1 story that Read More...
Beyond Travel
09 November 07 05:22 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
It has been over a week since I returned from my trip to Helsinki , which makes it three out of the last five weeks that I have been on the road outside of the US. While I was in Finland, some of my colleagues in the Unlimited Potential Group were scattered Read More...
Hanging With the APMs
30 October 07 07:38 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Academic Program Managers (APMs) are the people at Microsoft responsible for implementing the Partners in Learning program I wrote about yesterday . We have about a hundred APMs around the world, working with local schools and education ministries on Read More...
3.6 Million Innovative Teachers Can't Be Wrong
29 October 07 04:00 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Helsinki, October 29, 2007 I am attending the Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum, a "Celebration/Competition" that Microsoft is holding in Helsinki as part of our Innovative Teachers Network , a grassroots community around the world that promotes Read More...
Will the Digital Divide Widen Before it Narrows?
19 October 07 11:18 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
October 19, 2007 I had a scary thought in Budapest today. What if the digital divide widens before it narrows? The thought occurred to me on Day 2 of our launch event here. I was attending a meeting of an informal group working on a program called "EUGA", Read More...
Buchalost
17 October 07 11:34 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
October 17, 2007 I began the morning in Bucharest today by going for a run and getting terribly and completely lost. I mean 45 minutes of " Do you speak English -- do you know where the Howard Johnson's Hotel is? " lost. The team ended the day Read More...
Snowing in Moscow
15 October 07 06:40 PM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
A group of us are in Central and Eastern Europe this week, starting with two days in Moscow. It's snowing. The highlight of our day yesterday was the official opening of an IDEA Center, a community-based computer center targeting unemployed, seniors, Read More...
More from Omar Dengo
10 October 07 07:01 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
In an earlier post , I talked about a visit I made to the Fundacion Omar Dengo, an NGO in Costa Rica. Eduardo Monge was kind enough to send me some more information. Below is a photo of their new facility in San Jose along with a photo of their resident Read More...
Technology and Education Summit in Guatemala
05 October 07 03:46 AM | jamesu | 0 Comments   
Thursday, October 4th I had the opportunity today to give a keynote speech at a technology and education summit for the Caribbean and Latin America hosted by Intel, Microsoft, and the Guatemala Ministry of Education. The venue was Antigua, Guatemala. Read More...
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