Toolkit

Story: The $100 laptop: A well intentioned waste of time?

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 24 November 2005, 10:03 AM)

Sounds to me like this is a great idea for providing laptops to cash strapped education services more in the developed countries and for infrastructure providers in the rest of the world...

I'm sure these would be great cost rudcers for a lot of NGO's that already have a need for laptops, rather than just throughing them at schools in africa to be yet another peice of technology they have little use for as they lack more basic facilities, such as buildings and teachers.

Not that I imagine IT manufactures really want to see a loss of market that they already have... rather than the potenial growing of the market they don't have... lots of african children seeking to upgrade later in life.

Good idea, shame it won't be used where it can do good now rather than maybe possibily later.

Wouldn't it be nice if through the reduction in NGO costs they could help assit with the more basic aspects of getting these children an education so that they could use these devices in the future.