ApacheCon Session
Back to the Future and One Laptop Per Child
We now take for granted amazing educational resources such as Wikipedia, search engines such as Google, mapping systems, and all the myriad services of today's Internet. But we should not: recently at a OLPC trial, a parent asked "What is the Internet?"
The Internet, the web, and the community that has built these services are key foundations to enabling learning by more than a billion children. As we look forward toward to the web reaching billions more, many challenges become clear: the last mile problem, back-haul from remote areas, world wide content distribution networks, and offline access, to name a few. The web is indeed still in its infancy.
The developing world's Internet is much more like the Internet of 15 years ago: high latency, unreliable, and slow, than that of the ubiquitous broadband Internet most of us now enjoy. Caching, careful content creation, and internationalization are vital. Much of what you do can either enable or inhibit successful use of the World Wide Web to better people's lives everywhere.
The Internet, the web, and the community that has built these services are key foundations to enabling learning by more than a billion children. As we look forward toward to the web reaching billions more, many challenges become clear: the last mile problem, back-haul from remote areas, world wide content distribution networks, and offline access, to name a few. The web is indeed still in its infancy.
The developing world's Internet is much more like the Internet of 15 years ago: high latency, unreliable, and slow, than that of the ubiquitous broadband Internet most of us now enjoy. Caching, careful content creation, and internationalization are vital. Much of what you do can either enable or inhibit successful use of the World Wide Web to better people's lives everywhere.
