[Yr7-10it] OLPC : Give One Get One starts soon

[Tony Forster]

"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..."

Christopher,

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.

It also has a mesh wireless network which can allow it to communicate despite no communications infrastucture.

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.

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.

Tony Forster, 
Computer Game Design, Programming, Multimedia and Mathematics Cluster.
http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-olpc-100-laptop.html


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