Get a laptop and give one to a child in a developing nation
Category: Design
Cannot help but wonder what American school children (Grades K-6) could accomplish with One Laptop per Child XO Laptop. Dare I say the ‘competition’ for XOs in America this holiday season are gaming systems? Actually the Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop Program isn’t really all that expensive in comparison with the top gaming systems:
Wii value bundle: $325.00
XBox 360 Pro: $300.00
PlayStation3 80GB Console: $400.00
The 2008 holiday Give One Get One program for OLPC is now in full swing. Please consider donating a unit to a child in need. A new print on-demand manual is now available. Looks like the Amazon links are not functional yet, so check out the details at Laptop.org and see how you can change the world one person at a time.
Tags: OLPC, Give One Get One, Amazon, XO, G1G1, globalization, trends
Searching for the next emerging career in business? Its Network Orchestrator and this does not refer to computer networks or chamber music. If you understand fluid, globalized supply chains your on the right track. Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World proves success is less about what a company can do itself and more about what it can connect to in the global world in order to succeed.
Enter Globalization 3.0 and now business must be in a position to take advantage of a Network Orchestrator.
This book follows Li & Fung, a garment company which produces annual sales over $8 billion for some of the most respected brands in the world.
What may surprise you is that Li & Fung do not own any factories.
This book may be crafted for business schools but its larger impact is for educators.
More importantly parents should read this to see how the world has already changed and learn how their children (regardless of profession) will enter a vastly different marketplace. The changes from their generation are drastically different. Li & Fung’s message is quite simple: evolve or die.
Would you like to access music the same way you access water? David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard have written an amazing book about the music industry, artists, record companies and how massive changes are underway that will benefit everyone who enjoys music.
The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution proves that indeed access to music can be modified to be as simple as finding water. If you are interested in education David and Gerd actually spell out something special in chapter one … maybe without even knowing it.
Without a doubt they have The Future of Music nailed down: Mobile and Digital. The book is labeled a Manifesto for good reason. If you want to understand the music industry from the inside, gain a better perspective on how the record industry stacks the deck against musicians and how mp3 + iPod + iTunes = Revolution then you will really enjoy The Future of Music.
Authors David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard have combined their knowledge and talent to truly place a wonderful series of ideas, thoughts and experiences from the music industry into a book that will show how radical changes to the digital distribution of music will actually make everyone happy, kill Digital Rights Management in the process yet make the music business profitable.