Category Archives: Politics

One Laptop Per Child and Chicago

Friday, May 18th, 2007

The OLPC program has officially stated the while the initial plan and long term goal is to benefit third world and impoverished countries, the only qualification for the laptops to be rolled out in a region is government buy in. One of the largest issues that the program has to overcome is to avoid […]

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Daley Urban Forum 2007

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Last Wednesday, I went to the third annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum at UIC. I had a great time and meet a lot of interesting people, including Shylo from Gapers Block.
I learned a couple of valuable things at the forum:
- The keynote speaker, former Secretary of the United States Treasury Robert Rubin, […]

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