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HeliOS Project’s Ken Starks profiled in the American-Statesman
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We’ve written about Ken Starks of Austin’s HeliOS Project several times in Digital Savant over the last few years.
In Sunday’s American-Statesman, Starks is featured on the front page in a profile piece I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while.
As is evidenced by what people say about him in the story, Ken’s work in the community to get laptop and desktop computers into the hands of the city’s poorest children, community centers and non-profits has earned him many admirers.
Here’s a link to the New York Times piece we mention in the story about whether computers in the home correlate to better performance in school, and a shorter related piece, also from the Times.
Lastly, Ken and his partner in Linux Against Poverty, Lynn Bender of GeekAustin, were also quoted in a story I wrote last month about cell phones and the digital divide.
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