George Pope wrote: > FW: Dissolution of the NGO OLPC Nepal [but not the OLPC > community in Nepal] (Bryan Berry) > > Problems operating in poor countries. Cautionary lesions for us in this? - > when convenient please share with us. > > george pope > san mateo california > > > > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > Yes, lessons learned would be very important, but I would not focus only on poor countries. We, here in the US, have plenty of organizational and managerial issues. In fact, as Bryan pointed out, dissatisfaction with OLPC organization in Boston, was one of the reasons that brought about the dissolution and that organization is here, in the US!
Rich or poor, people will disagree when they can. We all have different perceptions as to how this project should proceed. Hopefully, time will bring about some stability. On another note, since you indicated that you are in San Mateo, California, are you on the OLPC-SF list? http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
