At Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:27:19 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[email protected]> wrote: > > And if she gave an impression to think that giving laptops to > > children in the disaster-hit country will solve their problems, it > > would be a political suicide. > > Do read Hillary's speech. It is actually pretty good, and the mention > of OLPC is well framed amongst projects that can get LatAm countries > into thriving societies (and economies). None of these projects will > on its own turn around a region, but a smart combination of them, and > serious work will. And this is visibly at work in many LatAm countries > today.
Me? Of course I did read it and I was agreeing with Tim that it is a positive development. I was responding to Yama's comment that he thought she could have gone further by mentioning the OLPC effort in Haiti but it simply was asking too much. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
