One Laptop per person? How can we open up access to the network of Africa?
One Laptop per person? How can we open up access to the network Africa? What about this proposal? "The XO-1, previously known as the $ 100 laptop or children Machine is a portable computer price for distribution to children around the world, especially developing countries, which will provide access to knowledge. The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social welfare organization. OLPC is a US-based nonprofit 501 (c) (4) created by faculty members MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture and distribute laptop and software. … "Http: / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-1_ (laptop) What is on the ideas of others? Tell me! Remember that I do not need your opinion if you want to do something, but HOW you do something … asked his specific proposals, presenting an idea to discuss the possibilities of doing. Responses like "I can not do anything" are not useful.
It is an excellent idea. Most funding comes organizations and foundations charater, such as UNDP and the Gates Foundation. The people themselves may not be paying it money or their governments. The main problem I see is infrastructure. Yes, many of these people have difficulty affording food and shelter, what would a laptop? The organization is the first expansion in areas where it would be more effective in places still relatively poor still have some finances. But how are you going to get, Internet access or even electricity? You would need some funding to get these resources to these people. I think this would be an important step in a like South Africa where little infrastructure exists and integration capacity is relatively easy. But speaking of giving every child a laptop I do not even have that amount of resources in the United States. I think it's an ambitious goal, but one that will have a significant amount of time, planning, resources and monetary policy before they will be effective.
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