<incom> one laptop per child--a comment

[Ronda Hauben]

I've just done an article on the "one laptop per child" project for the blog
I have begun at Tageszeitung.

The url is:

http://taz.de/blogs/netizenblog/2007/10/24/one-laptop-per-child-can-it-become-a-reality/
Netizen Journalism and the New News
One Laptop Per Child - Can It Become a Reality?



On 10/25/07, Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> (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
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