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Open Source

Handheld Learning Solution

Sanako, a company providing language-learning technology, announced some days ago, that they are partnering with Nokia to provide a “learning solution” for Nokia’s N810 Internet tablet. Computer Business Review reports the partnership and writes something about Sanako’s and Nokia’s plans. For a long time I have been asking Nokia – I have some friends in […]

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Open Source

Thank you OLPC – Maybe now we may start to talk about education again

One Laptop per Child – the laptop project of the OLPC association, a North American non-profit has change the markets of low-cost mobile computers for educational sector. Even that in the OLPC there are such a multi-billion industry sponsors as the AMD, Google, Nortel, and Newscorp, the achievement of changing a whole market, or actually […]

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Sharing economy

Wikiopisto – The Finnish Wikiversity

Last night I made the front page for the Finnish Wikiversity beta.wikiversity.org site. The Finnish Wikiversity is called Wikiopisto. I have been thinking about this for some time already. Now some friends in Finland wanted to start a reading club to read the The Wealth of Networks by Benkler, and asked me about the Wikiversity. […]