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...submitted a rival bid alleged that the deal involved millions of dollars in kickbacks for members of Arroyo's administration. Election Commissioner Benjamin Abalos resigned after the Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure development testified that Abalos had offered him a $4.4 million bribe to approve the project. (Abalos has denied any wrongdoing...
...leads until the check is deposited in the bank,” he said. On the same day that the Kennedy School announced the Shell donation, it called attention to the first of a series of community forums intended to train New Orleans neighborhood leaders in survey methods, a project that also receives funding from Shell. The Kennedy School’s Broadmoor Project emphasizes data collection in the effort to rebuild one of New Orleans’ 49 neighborhoods. According to Carolyn E. Wood, an assistant academic dean at the Kennedy School who works on the Broadmoor Project, many...
...time that Nicholas Negroponte has for the Eternal City right now. As he's done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child foundation has touched down in one world capital after another to pitch his innovative and audacious project to government leaders, curious techies, education advocates, NGOs and anyone else who will listen. But even as he was criss-crossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte's attention was fixed on a factory near Shanghai. That's where within a week - after all the development...
...built-in video and audio, a hand-crank and low wattage requirements - are getting high marks from technology reviewers. Some 8,000 units are up and running in pilot villages from Cambodia to Uruguay. But perhaps an even more difficult task was to generate enough mass interest in the project to allow the computer to be produced on such a vast scale that costs could be kept down. The program's chief education officer, Argentine neurology professor Antonio Battro, who accompanied Negroponte in Rome, says providing laptops to entire villages and nations of children should be viewed like vaccination programs...
...Though Negroponte and his project are not quite there yet, the 63-year-old professor is as busy as ever piling up the snow. Such was the case Monday in Rome, where he was utilizing the most important new tool in his stump speech: the lime green laptop with a toy-like design that Negroponte carries with him everywhere. Throughout the day, he spoke to three packed auditoriums, and met with officials at the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Telecom Italia. In between, he taped an interview at Vatican...