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

[Christopher Jansen]

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.



On Nov 9, 2007 4:08 PM, Tony Forster <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:

>  "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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