[LINK] Internet in the developing world & OLPC
Richard Chirgwin
rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Wed Dec 12 07:41:59 AEDT 2007
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
> Cheers
> David
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