[LINK] Nigerian students power up their laptops

[Adam Todd]

Ahh good.  They are training more kiddies to send Nigerian SPAM messages 
and reply to them.  What a wonderful world, we'll have 2 million Nigerian 
Kids on laptops on wireless networks sending and replying to emails to 
people about their bank accounts or those who are time spare enough to 
waste the Nigerians time in the first place.


At 10:51 PM 13/04/2007, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>This article has nine pictures of a school in Nigeria
>that is handing out those laptops.
>
>http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6175025-1.html?tag=newsmap
>
>   Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per
>   Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the
>   last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school
>   10 miles outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to deploy the company's
>   first child-friendly laptops in the region.
>
>   These 10- and 11-year-old students are lucky to share three books
>   per academic subject, a clock, bell, wall calendar, and science
>   equipment consisting of a lever. Students in less fortunate schools
>   might share three books total. With the XO Children's Machine, OLPC
>   hopes young students will have the tools to shape their own education.