On OLPC. Educationally speaking I think that a few laptops in each classroom
is a more meaningful approach than the single computer lab approach that we
currently use - at least in terms of the South African curriculum model in
which differentiation of simultaneous classroom activities is catered for, if
not encouraged. But it also raises a number of practical questions of cost,
loss and maintenance, all of which are part of the overall sustainability
value chain. As a project, I'm for OLPC and hope that my path intersects with
an opportunity to be involved in it somewhere. It's a pity that in Africa
OLPC somehow got itself locked into NEPAD which has been a blunder that
doesn't have much to show for its e-schools project so far.