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size=3>The project one laptop per child is politics. It works because it is a
simple and understandable slogan. Why should we deny the kids laptops? Usually
projects of this kind do not really understand the context and reality in the
space/place where they want to be adapted and (save the world). Similar projects
I know from <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region> is to collect old (junk) computers and
install Linux and send them to <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. Projects
that sounds nice and probably works bad because it is more expensive to collect
old computers and install Linux and then ship them to Africa then to buy new
ones, (likely a project like this can mean getting rid of electronic junk with a
humanistic pretext...) In third world countries usually mobile telephony goes
before spreading of the Internet. The kids will probably get their hands on a
mobile first and then a laptop. But the mobiles nowadays are integrating with
computers. This could mean a lot of opportunities to create a new kind of
dialogue with the school system or? If the school system in .......the best way
to influence the kids is to influence the teachers....to influence the teachers
you must have something to teach the teachers. To teach the teachers you need to
get permission from the local authorities. School systems in all countries are
usually conservative to new technology and kids tend to learns faster then the
schools. </FONT></P>
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size=3>Nils Claesson</FONT></P>
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size=3>Artist</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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