TY - CONF TI - Designing for development: Understanding One Laptop Per Child in its historical context AU - Ananny, Mike AU - Winters, Niall T2 - 2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development AB - We argue that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) can be better understood by examining the general history of development communication and, specifically, through a historical debate between communication scholars Ithiel de Sola Pool and Herbert Schiller. Although originally conducted around broadcast media, the Pool-Schiller conversation identifies questions still relevant to contemporary information and communication for development (ICT4D) projects like the OLPC. Our analysis of their debate identifies five key questions we can apply to the OLPC or any given ICTD4D project: where does change happen? How does change happen? What obligations do designers and researchers have as change agents? What is the role of technology in change? What is the relationship between change, technology and international development? Equipped with this framework, we argue that one place to see OLPC's answers to these Pool-Schiller questions - and, thus, an understanding of OLPC development ideologies - can be found in a textual analysis of the OLPC software design guidelines. This preliminary analysis suggests that OLPC sees the child as the agent of change and the network as the mechanism of change. C1 - Bangalore, India C3 - 2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development DA - 2007/12// PY - 2007 DO - 10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937397 DP - IEEE Xplore SP - 1 EP - 12 ST - Designing for development UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4937397 KW - Broadcasting KW - Computer science education KW - Computer vision KW - Context KW - Educational technology KW - Guidelines KW - History KW - Information analysis KW - Materials science and technology KW - Pool-Schiller questions KW - Portable computers KW - one laptop per child KW - public domain software KW - software design KW - software development management KW - systems analysis KW - textual analysis ER - TY - RPRT TI - Educational Technology Topic Guide AU - Power, Tom DA - 2014/// PY - 2014 DP - Google Scholar PB - Health and Education Advice Resource Team ST - EdTech Topic Guide UR - http://www.heart-resources.org/topic/educational-technology/ Y2 - 2014/10/20/15:00:18 KW - CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3 KW - Important KW - lit review ER -