Making A Difference: OLPC Laptops, Solar Power, & Wireless Internet in Kenya

November 14th, 2009 | by cmotel |

Have UCC students figured out a viable, sustainable and duplicatable model for Internet delivery at schools in the developing world? Watch this video and find out! In March, four UCC students (Derek Chan, Amal Chandaria, Connor Cimowsky and Adam Gordon) and their teacher, Mark Battley, traveled to the Ntugi Day Secondary School in Kenya to test an innovative way of bringing laptops and the Internet to a school with no power and no previous experience with computers. The boys’ groundbreaking …

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  1. 4 Responses to “Making A Difference: OLPC Laptops, Solar Power, & Wireless Internet in Kenya”

  2. By IXBhangXI on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply

    I got an idea… lets spend millions of dollars to give Africans exactly what they need… computers.

    Let’s forget that most the nation is starving, war torn and in dire need of medicine. But surfing the internet is so much more noble than saving lives…

    Why not do something useful for people instead of giving money mongers another avenue for enslavement.

    Stoopid.

  3. By BeeRich33 on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply

    Obviously Scaddings boys! Well done guys.

  4. By acurrie on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply

    If you continue on noble endeavors like this I would be inclined to agree : )

  5. By fifatennisman on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply

    first comment!

    UCC rocks!

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