Shell life: Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress, Internet as Human and/or Civil Right, OLPC

Highlights from the 28th Chaos Communications Congress ... http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/01/05/highlights-and-videos-from-the-28th-chaos-communications-congress/ ... including a 1.5 hour video on how governments have tried to block TOR ... will add to WUaS's Hacking wiki, subject page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hacking_-_Computers_(certified,_ethical) ... and WUaS's Security subject, perhaps, as well ...

There are a lot of fascinating videos here, offering insight into the web today, from a lot of programmers.

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The internet as a Human and/or Civil Right, by Vint Cerf (vis-a-vis telephone as 'universal service' in the U.S.) ... (the picture is apropos, too) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html. World Univ & Sch would like to extend this to all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200 countries ... education as a universal service ... (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/If_There_Beyond :)

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Important video, please spread widely. PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet ... http://t.co/bit3V8Gw ... http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ ...

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"Why we need One Laptop per Child in the U.S." - http://blog.laptop.org/2012/01/10/why-we-need-olpc-in-the-us-img/ ... will add to wiki World University and School's One Laptop per Child subject page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT and the new XO Tablet , the OLPC XO-3 unveiled at CES 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBin1tc4T5c ... with solar panel and hand crank, etc. Nicholas likes to say "The warranty is void until you take it apart" :) (WUaS invites you to edit a page, as well).

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Thoughtful retrospective on One Laptop per Child - http://www.miller-mccune.com/education/one-laptop-per-child-redux-38589/ - which will airdrop olpcs next week, some in African countries ... will http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT ...

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Jamaican students making poetry about the OLPC in OLPC News - '''OLPC Jamaica'''

Derndorfer, Christoph. 2011. [http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/jamaica/when_me_see_di_xo_jamaican_student_poetry.html "When Me See Di XO" - Jamaican Student Poetry About the XO]. November 18. Cambridge, MA: OLPC News.

... adding to WUaS's OLPC - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT - wiki subject page.

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Solar-Powered Internet Connectivity a Reality in Lascahobas, Haiti! ... will look to add to WUaS's OLPC http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child_-_XO_Laptop_-_$100_Laptop_-_MIT and Solar Energy http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy wiki Subjects

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Great UC Berkeley Globetrotter interview of Manuel Castells, with video ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GBB7U5mv0w

which I've posted before in this blog, and in the course I teach ...