Open Technologist

Charter For Compassion – Collaborating to Highlight What Religions Share

Since I started this blog I have focused on a few mass collaboration projects happening with the aid of technology. A new project called the Charter for Compassion is a collaboration project recently started with religion being the central theme. It is the TED prize wish of Karen Armstrong. The aim of the  Charter for Compassion is to build a peaceful and congruent world by bringing together the voices of people from all religions and highlight that all faiths share the principle of...

OLPC Available With Windows

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is non-profit organisation whose current focus is the development and distribution of the X0-1 laptop to children in developing nations. The laptop makes use of a Linux OS and a criticism from many countries is that it does not use a Windows OS. They felt that the students would be better prepared for jobs in the global workplace if they used Windows. In response OLPC will now be releasing a laptop running Windows XP Pro specifically built for the XO laptop. Peru...