Prospectus             Kickoff Event


Digital Nations

Kickoff Meeting (October 18, 2000)


8:45 Digital Leapfrogs
    Nicholas Negroponte
9:00 Overview of Digital Nations
    Sandy Pentland and Mitchel Resnick slides
10:00 Break
10:30 Research Themes
    Learning (David Cavallo and Bakhtiar Mikhak) slides
    Community (Brian Smith) slides
    Multicultural Computing (Justine Cassell) slides
    Commerce (Michael Best) slides
    Policy (Geoffrey Kirkman) slides
    Health (Scott Manalis) slides
    Low-Cost Technologies (Joe Jacobson)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Open House
2:30 Technology and the Developing World
    Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard Center for International Development
    Jose Maria Figueres, former president of Costa Rica
3:15 Collaborating with the Media Lab
    Eleonora Badilla Saxe, Sustainable Development Foundation, Costa Rica
    Javier Elguea Solís, Telmex, Mexico
    Gail Breslow, Computer Clubhouse Network
    Nicole McLaren, Junior Summit
    Spiros Tzelepis, Junior Journal
    Henoch Aguiar, Minister of Telecommunications, Argentina
4:15 Break
4:45 Media Lab 2.0
    Walter Bender
5:00 Administrative issues and Q&A
5:30 Reception
6:30 Dinner
    Liberating the Latent Learning Potential of the Planet (Seymour Papert)



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