One Laptop Per Child vs Asus Eee Notebook PC

http://live.pirillo.com - SWAT sometimes hangs out on Ventrilo with us, and even occasionally streams for me when I'm gone. He was wondering if he should go with the OLPC and help another child as well, or spend the same money and get better components for his daughter by buying the Asus Eeee.

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[NasokuSSJ9]

Agreed really poor kids need food shelter and cloths not a laptop!

[Imprezaman555]

what if they have all that, this could help brighten up their lives. fun is a major part of the quality of life as well as an education and this can do both.

[Jedieaston]

@NasokuSSJ9 laptop+internet acess= education

[LtSurge659]

A computer doesn't make one smart.

Sending a laptop to a third-world country is almost as ludicrous as sending money. Their governments would steal that money from them somehow. They always do.

[brietzmann]

in my opinion a laptop or generally access to the internet is a great thing. at first, of course the basic needs need to be covered. but somehow the whole thing seems like a vicious circle to me. people stay uneducated or poorly educated in 3rd world countries because they don't have the means to become educated. so they stay in their slums and keep on living und bad conditions. if they could be educated (for example by online tutors) they could get out of it. just a suggestion.

[jaycob619]

If they don't have tech as basic as a simple low end laptop whos to say if they can even have enough money to run the thing!

Marketing likes to trick ppl with cheap shit, if it was to help them with education place to live and food sure but not a laptop.

[primaveranz]

OLPC was an idea thought up by well-meaning Academics. The "buy one send one" strategy was an attempt to get conscientious individuals to shoulder the burden after the failure to sell millions to the MoE's of India, China and Brazil. In some countries the cost of supplying one laptop to every child would have outweighed their total annual Education budget.

No thought was given to the pedagogical side, least of all when dealing with very diverse cultures. Its time has probably passed now.

[ultrawaregamestudios]

Cool, now kids in Africa can also watch porn XD

[x6h0ztx]

with all them expenisve monitors.... buy a new web cam

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