WorldBank

When I applied for work at the International Finance Corporation way back in 1996, I had no idea that the battle against poverty would involve so many bucket baths, or that I would be taking them throughout my career.

From what I'm hearing Monday's talk at the World Bank about the status quo of OLPC in South America is attracting a lot of interesting people ranging from OLPC employees to long-term olpc community members and people working on related projects for various NGOs and other organizations such as Inter-American Development Bank.

And it's not too late to RSVP if you want to attend in person:

The image below belongs to Filippo Minelli's Contradictions series. The World Bank has at least 11 Twitter feeds (and probably many more that I am not aware of). Also check out his Flags series. Can you guess which country gets to raise the 'Bananas' flag? Just in case you aren't already, you can follow the PSD Blog's Twitter feed @worldbankpsd.

There has been a great deal of media attention on the 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) project since the announcement of a "$100 laptop" over five years ago. Most of this attention focuses on its potential to address the educational challenges in developing countries. Much less is known about what is actually happening on-the-ground with the various implementations underway around the world - including in South America, which is home to the largest OLPC roll-outs.