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At the invitation of Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert a gathering of community activitsts, teachers, academics and leaders in Information Technology from around the world came together at the Media Lab at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusets from July 16 th until the 22nd 1997 in order to create a foundation that will facilitate access to information technology for children around the world. Here are a few images from this historic event. Click on the 2B1 logo below to find out more information about the 2B1 Foundation.
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1. Peter Patrao shows how he helped a young boy in rural India have access to a computer and power with the help of a bicycle!
2. John Trujillo Vargas holds up a shoulder bag with solar panels that Rao Machiraju (left) of Apple co-designed to help bring better health care to the poor of rural India using Newton technology.
3. These wonderful dancers and muscicians proved that all work and no play make 2B1 a dull group -NOT!
4. 2B1 is being created from the ground up thanks to many meetings and exchanges like this.
5. Bill Belsey meets John Gage of Sun Microsystems, founder of NET-Day.
6. The Media Lab at M.I.T.
7. Bill with John Perry-Barlow, co-founder of the EFF -the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
8. Bill with Nicholas Negroponte and (9) Seymour Papert, co-founders of the 2B1 Foundation.
