[LINK] Internet in the developing world & OLPC

[Richard Chirgwin]

Picking up on one point...
> OLPC is just one tool, but there are other tools, and education for all, one of the UN's Millenium Goals, is much more important.
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A problem is that the OLPC group has aligned itself with a more general 
article of faith in the IT community, that you can't have a good 
education without lots of PCs. This puts in the hands of the 'pro' camp 
a simple but much-used rhetorical tool: if you're not in favour of the 
OLPC project, you're not in favour of education for the third world.

PCs may be desirable to some parts of education, but that does not make 
the PC indispensable to education.

RC

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> David
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