Comments on: OLPC and Markets http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jakob http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-104889 Jakob Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:30:20 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/#comment-104889 This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title OLPC and Markets. Thanks for informative article This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title OLPC and Markets. Thanks for informative article

]]> By: Wayan http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-98557 Wayan Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:50:36 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/#comment-98557 Nick, OLPC may be better than nothing if the something of OLPC indebts countries for Billions that is lost through mismanagement and corruption during implementation, resulting in little net change to education, yet massive loans and disillusionment on a national scale. Nick,

OLPC may be better than nothing if the something of OLPC indebts countries for Billions that is lost through mismanagement and corruption during implementation, resulting in little net change to education, yet massive loans and disillusionment on a national scale.

]]> By: Nick http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/comment-page-1/#comment-98480 Nick Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:32:16 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/04/20/olpc-and-markets/#comment-98480 It's nice to criticize a project without giving an alternative. If the Indian minister of education is reporting such high level of dropouts, they should all be fired. Anyway, I think the article badly misses the point. To be competitive in a free market all players must be able to act with equal possibilities. I agree that if I am a graphic designer I want to use the best. Unfortunately, I don't make enough money to be able to afford it. To me the best thing the OLPC is trying to do is to overcome the strong limitation that the free market imposes in the developing countries. One is access to free (in the sense of speech) information. The article is suggesting that this is evil, because a one size fits all approach is not going to satisfy the needs of everybody. This is true, however, the OLPC is better than NOTHING. All this, of course, unless us, the developed world, want to keep control of the destiny of the people in the developing world, by asking them to play against us, with our rules, without our resources. It’s nice to criticize a project without giving an alternative. If the Indian minister of education is reporting such high level of dropouts, they should all be fired.
Anyway, I think the article badly misses the point. To be competitive in a free market all players must be able to act with equal possibilities. I agree that if I am a graphic designer I want to use the best. Unfortunately, I don’t make enough money to be able to afford it. To me the best thing the OLPC is trying to do is to overcome the strong limitation that the free market imposes in the developing countries. One is access to free (in the sense of speech) information. The article is suggesting that this is evil, because a one size fits all approach is not going to satisfy the needs of everybody. This is true, however, the OLPC is better than NOTHING.

All this, of course, unless us, the developed world, want to keep control of the destiny of the people in the developing world, by asking them to play against us, with our rules, without our resources.

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