In my view, knowledge and approval of OLPC's mission and goals at that high a government level is a very positive development.
Sean On 3/18/10, Yoshiki Ohshima <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
