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One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News One month after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity went into mass production with its $188 laptop, the Peruvian government has signed a contract to purchase 260,000 units. In November, the OLPC charity contracted Taiwan's Quanta Computer to... [03 Dec 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment And is development best achieved by charity or by self-interest? Rival hardware schemes by Intel and Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project are beginning to deliver trial quantities of products. [17 Jul 2007]
One billion PCs worldwide by end of 2008
News How PCs are bridging the digital divide silicon.com raised more than £16,000 earlier this year on a 400km charity cycle ride in Kenya to provide PCs for schoolchildren in the country. The report applauds vendor initiatives such as AMD's 50x15... [11 Jun 2007]
NSPCC Takes a Rational Approach to Development With REAL Solutions and IBM
White Paper The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is the UK's leading child protection charity. The organization wanted to improve its relationship with potential and existing supporters, for this NSPCC wanted to redevelop its... [15 Mar 2007]
Photos of the month - October 06
Photo Salesforce.com will dedicate around 40,000 hours of staff time to charity work this year and provides 1,000 not-for-profit organisations with free technical support and CRM software. CSR is child's play: Salesforce met Ground Force as silicon.com... [31 Oct 2006]
Photos: Proof that CSR is child's play
Photo Many of the volunteers at this event, organised by children's charity Kaboom, come from Salesforce.com and technology partner Vertical Response. Salesforce.com will this year dedicate around 40,000 hours of staff time to charity work. [10 Oct 2006]
Can corporate giving bridge the digital divide?
Comment BT is just one member of The Percent Club - a group of organisations that donates one per cent of their pre-tax profits to charity through staff time, donations and in-kind giving. Salesforce.com encourages staff to get involved in projects in the... [24 Aug 2006]
Camp Quality: Eliminating Viruses and the Threat of Being "Spammed to Death"
White Paper A non-profit organization committed to bringing hope and happiness to every child living with cancer, their families, and communities, Camp Quality is an international charity with the first office established in 1983 in Sydney, Australia. [03 Aug 2006]
$100 laptop: 'Fundamentally flawed'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International. [21 Jun 2006]
Charities vulnerable to major security risks
News More than a third (38 per cent) of charities have suffered a virus attack in the past year, according to research from Charity Finance, a journal for the non-profit sector. Sophos is one company that sells antivirus products to charities, including... [10 May 2006]
Will the $100 laptop bridge the UK's digital divide?
News UK charity Citizens Online would like to see every schoolchild in the UK with a laptop by 2010. John Fisher, CEO of the charity, said: "The $100 laptop - that's quite a challenge. The idea is being driven by Nicholas Negroponte, of the... [26 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up The Round-Up this week joined the tens of thousands of people who have already stumped up £9.99 to download the second 'Help' album in aid of the War Child charity. Now the War Child charity has gone all high-tech and has embraced this whole... [16 Sep 2005]
UK anti-paedophile centre to be created
News When you walk in the door you'll not be able to tell who the police officer is and who is from charity. A national organisation to tackle online paedophiles and support child abuse victims is to be set up next year. [15 Jun 2005]
One in five kids hit by 'digital bullying'
News According to a survey by children's charity NCH, text bullying was the most regular form of abuse with 14 per cent of kids interviewed experiencing it. So if the mobile starts being used to harass a child it can seem as if there is no escape. [07 Jun 2005]
Online child porn investigation costs police £15m
News The quadrupling in arrests for online child pornography over the last two years led children's charity NCH to last week call for a special police unit to be set up but this has been met with a muted response from the police, who claim the rise in... [07 Mar 2005]
