<incom> one laptop per child--a comment

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

APC has a story on 'one laptop per child' by 
journalist Miguel Peirano in the recent APC 
news that provides a critical perspective on the 
process in Uruguay.

http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x
=5247132

Anriette

PS - It is also available on our Spanish site at 
http://www.apc.org/espanol/news/index.shtml?x
=5248100



To:             	incom-l at incommunicado.info
From:           	Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl>
Date sent:      	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:56:52 
+0200
Subject:        	<incom> one laptop per child--a 
comment

> (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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Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director
Association for Progressive Communications
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