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Just an update...
Intel 'undermined' Laptop Project is the latest news headline putting up barriers for the $100 laptop program.
Apart from Intel aparently trying to undermine government contracts, the OLPC project is facing a Nigerian lawsuit, and has found that politicians are more talk than action. Though their buy one get one program was reportedly succesful.
This is such a great product, not only for the digital periphery, but also for mobile, adaptable, and of course cheap digital technology.

Genevi,

I have this terrible sense that the $100 laptop is just another dumping of redundant western technology onto the poor. It's not that I _object_ in principle to cheap information technology - except that it would be so much better and useful if the rich northern countries stopped being protectionist of their industries and technologies, and allowed the poor to be protectionist of theirs.

Instead I read endlessly of charity dumping of technologies and enforced privatisations.

With the consequence that Intel's actions may actually be the right thing. Likewise the Nigerian government...

I thought that Genevi's post, "Teaching Math through Culture" (the video talk), gave a more respectful, paradoxically African-_base_d approach... Especially in the way that it--strangely enough--takes the "give computers to Africa," and show that, in fact, the computer's first seeds came from Africa... So that giving computers to Africa is just returning the favor.

I find myself constantly engaged in a battle between two forces. Disengaging the hierarchical systems, the laws and organizations that uphold them and on the other hand using those systems and laws to organize in a different way. Of course we often find ourselves somewhere in the middle and ends up being more a question of concentration rather than an absolute.
What I like about the OLPC is that it uses human power, it’s adapted to the environment (sturdy, “sun-proof”), communicable (has little antenna ears to network with other laptops), open source, and it’s cheaper. I don’t really want to debate the importance of education and instead focus on the ways in which we teach. The OLPC is clearly more advantages than the outdated text books children in the digital periphery currently receive, not only because you don’t have to replace supplies as often, but because the content of what can be learned greatly increases. Furthermore in actually interacting with the technology, growing up with it, it becomes familiar and could perhaps create another and new generation of cyber warriors. I’m not sure why the OLPC is a “redundant western technology”. But if you look at how the OLPC program is behaving rather than what they are producing, I again think it becomes more interesting and opens room for criticism. The organization is rather rigid and hierarchical. I don’t appreciate this concept of “giving” and localized efforts might have avoided the Nigerian lawsuit.
Protectionism and privatization is problem, but I’m not sure how and why to address it through the OLPC program.

I have this terrible sense that the $100 laptop is just another dumping of redundant western technology onto the poor. It's not that I __object__ in principle to cheap information technology - except that it would be so much better and useful if the rich northern countries stopped being protectionist of their industries and technologies, and allowed the poor to be protectionist of theirs.



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