[LINK] One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World

[Janet Hawtin]

On Dec 10, 2007 9:28 AM, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> On 12/10/07, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World
> > ARTICLE DATE: 12.04.07
> > By John C. Dvorak
> > PC World
> > http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=220845,00.asp
> >
> > So what to do? Let's give these kids these little green computers.
>
>
> OLPC isn't about giving children a laptop.  It's about giving them the one
> thing that can allow them to break the cycle of poverty that so many of
> these countries are in - an education!
>
> And Education _does_ change the world.

Doris Lessing's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for literature
last Friday night is an interesting counterpoint.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/nobelprize/story/0,,2224068,00.html

The changes do need to be structural and are probably as much about
how we think about
our local economies and whether they are making distributed value or
local value with distributed costs.
Seems like we have long way to go. Crucial from both wider ecological
and social perspectives.

Janet