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Beware the $100 Laptop

What some propose as the solution to the digital divide just may be the twenty-first century version of "let them eat cake" from the young and wealthy digital elite in the US, described in a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. 

Email Blasts Billion-Dollar IT Project at Nonprofit HMO

A project manager's rant focuses attention on problems with the conversion of the Kaiser system to electronic medical records. 

Using Information Technology for Social Change? Insert Coins Here

A new technology journal relies heavily on old closed technologies, to the dismay of those who want to see real change to open models.  And I make a modest suggestion. 

NTEN to Party Down in DC

A new generation carries on an old paradox: one thing that small charities do well is throw expensive parties.