<incom> one laptop per child--a comment

[Geert Lovink]

(there is a olpc discussion happening on one of our neighbouring lists 
called iDC... /geert)

> From: "Nils Claesson" <nils at crac.org>
> Date: 24 October 2007 10:23:17 PM
> To: <iDC at mailman.thing.net>
> Subject: [iDC] one laptop per child a comment
>
> Hi!
> The project one laptop per child is politics. It works because it is a 
> simple and understandable slogan. Why should we deny the kids laptops? 
> Usually projects of this kind do not really understand the context and 
> reality in the space/place where they want to be adapted and (save the 
> world). Similar projects I know from Sweden is to collect old (junk) 
> computers and install Linux and send them to Africa. Projects that 
> sounds nice and probably works bad because it is more expensive to 
> collect old computers and install Linux and then ship them to Africa 
> then to buy new ones, (likely a project like this can mean getting rid 
> of electronic junk with a humanistic pretext...) In third world 
> countries usually mobile telephony goes before spreading of the 
> Internet. The kids will probably get their hands on a mobile first and 
> then a laptop. But the mobiles nowadays are integrating with 
> computers. This could mean a lot of opportunities to create a new kind 
> of dialogue with the school system or? If the school system in 
> .......the best way to influence the kids is to influence the 
> teachers....to influence the teachers you must have something to teach 
> the teachers. To teach the teachers you need to get permission from 
> the local authorities. School systems in all countries are usually 
> conservative to new technology and kids tend to learns faster then the 
> schools.
>  
> Nils Claesson
> Artist
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