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<div><font color="#000000">Alan & Donna have revised their talk
description -- hope to see you in Cambridge/Kendall Sq Sunday 4pm --
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<blockquote><font color="#000000"><b>Sunday July 18 - Eleven Years
Deploying
Computers in South African Schools</b></font><br>
<font color="#000000">By Alan Field & Donna Wainwright, in person
at OLPC in Cambridge,
MA.</font><br>
<div><font color="#000000">Alan and Donna will discuss what has
succeeded and what has failed in providing old Macs for students in 30
township and rural schools in South Africa. They will describe how the
needs of economically stressed communities challenge our Western
assumptions about how things will work. Come learn some tough
and vital lessons about the place of technology in education as South
Africa strives to build a successful post-apartheid nation. To
visualize their school settings better, first look at pictures
at:<font face="Lucida Grande"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/7v36p8">http://tinyurl.com/7v36p8</a></font></font></div>
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