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Re: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop ... another view
You are very right. It is absolutely clear that a very good way to help
developing countries would be to encourage/help/support local initiative
like the Simputer as a base of the $100 laptop project.
But may be it is about something else...
Hilaire
Frederick Noronha (FN) a écrit :
> http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Taran/view?PostID=6667
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> KnowProSE.com
>
> Negroponte: 'It's the Wikipedia equivalent (of hardware)': NOT.
>
> Andy Carvin reports on Negroponte and his $100 laptop thing. I can sum
> my response up in one word: Hype. From that, I can derive the phrase
> trade subsidy. And from that, I can derive developing nations will
> always be developing nations.
>
> We wouldn't want to shake things up at all with open hardware. Oh no,
> that would shift power structures. That's what's been holding back the
> Simputer and similar initiatives. At the WSIS Latin America Caucus
> regional meeting, someone dinged one of Negroponte's representatives
> (why is his name more prominent than MIT's in these announcements?)
> about why the Simputer wasn't looked at as a base. The response was that
> they couldn't get one. Hmm.
>
> I have one. I'm more resourceful than MIT. Imagine that. No, that's too
> far fetched, so you start looking for the real answer. Why would they
> not use it? Hmm. There's a point to ponder. I have an answer, of course.
>
> September 28th, 2005 @ 6:46AM
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