I agree about the point of attacking the cause....I guess in my opinion attacking the cause could be done with training of teachers and supply of more practical supplies rather than computers. Things such as text books papper.. class rooms.. white board. A program of low cost PC's may be better aimed at lower socio groups in developed nations to bridge the gap between rich and poor.
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 9, 2007 4:08 PM, Tony Forster <<a href="mailto:forster@ozonline.com.au">forster@ozonline.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>"is the west really that delusional that we think people in "developing
nations" would even have somewhere to plug it in. Give me a break..."</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Christopher,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">These issues have been considered. The OLPC has a
number of power saving features and runs on 2W. Joel Stanley who is speaking at
the VITTA conference is a young postgrad student who has recently returned from
a research project into a solar charger for the OLPC. There is also a wind up
option.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">It also has a mesh wireless network which can allow
it to communicate despite no communications infrastucture.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">That is not to say that there aren't many issues
that need to be further explored and paper and pencils might be in greater
need.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">wrt Amnesty (and no criticism from me there), the
suppporters of OLPC may argue that Amnesty is attacking a symptom whereas
education is attacking a cause.</font></div><font color="#888888">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Tony Forster, <br>Computer Game Design,
Programming, Multimedia and Mathematics Cluster.<br><a href="http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/" target="_blank">http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/</a></font></div>
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