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[-] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

a village with no modern technology. How did they keep the tablets charged?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

OLPC’s latest trial in DIY education involved delivering Motorola Xoom tablets and solar chargers with custom software to two remote rural villages in Ethiopia where literacy rates are close to zero.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Maybe they had electricity

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Electricity is pretty old

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I wouldn’t even count early computers as modern technology. If it took up an entire room, that’s not really modern.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Ethiopian village running a mainframe

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Every morning at 4am, the village children wake up. With swatters in hand, they race into the memory banks, ready to debug the relays before the morning batch job is run.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So are computers

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

https://feddit.uk/comment/6006965 They were given solar chargers with the tablets.

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