A Digital Education: My Adventure in the Mountains of Costa Rice
**Note: Images and Videos are forthcoming, they’ve been lost in the transition to this new site** Two years ago, Emuel Aldridge, a professor in the University of Georgia New Media Institute, showed me a video of the brand new XO Laptops from the OneLaptopPerChild campaign. These $100 laptops were unlike anything I had seen before, obviously made for children to use in the most rural of settings. I was hooked. I feel very strongly that furthering the digital education of children in...
Read MoreWe Don’t Need Computers, We Need Solutions
I recently changed my mind about a motivating philosophy in my life. I was reading Seed, a refreshing science magazine with young writers, and I stumbled across an article about an increase in science and technology implementation in Africa called Building a Bright Continent. At first I thought this would be another attempt to encourage people to get laptops in the hands of children and adults in developing countries–which of course is a noble and worthy endeavor. But this was...
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I'm a new dad living in Atlanta, Georgia. I try my best to creatively leverage new media technology, solve complex problems, and generally create value. I also sing and make music.