I think quite frankly in the developing world where I was brought up and come
from
an OLPC is not the first need,
it is not the second,
it is not the third,
nor the fourth
need nor the 10th most important need!
Business people want to sell and still have their heads in the sand that a
parent
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I cannot see how this is going to be beneficial to an african country when the
cost of repair is often as high or higher than the cost of buying a new PC of
the same quality or higher quality!
By the time that PC hits any african city or school, the cost of shipping and
repairing it
outstrips th
On the surface it the so-called OLPC has been dressed as beneficial to third
world children and families, but have the proponents of the initiative spared a
thought for the following:
a) that the children being targeted for the initiative are mostly going to be
unable to pay school fees an
$100 laptops is a business strategy dressed as charity and help.
Having said this, suppose 200 million young (for example, african) children
buy each a $100 dollar laptop, where is this $20 billion dollars going to come
from and where is it going to? The so-called $100 dollar laptop initiat
