[iDC] one laptop per child a comment

[Nils Claesson]

Hi!

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 Sweden is to collect old (junk) computers and install Linux and send them to Africa. 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. 

 

Nils Claesson

Artist

www.video-dnevnik.org
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