Comments on: One Laptop Per Child Reconsidered http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: wayan http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-36029 wayan Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:17:06 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-36029 <p>It's too bad that OLPC isn't interested in "a little cash". They want $30 Billion (that's with a "B") in funding every year. Not "a little cash" but anyone's count. http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/</p> <p>To put that in perspective, the United Way, America's largest charity, is at 3.8 Billion per year.</p> It’s too bad that OLPC isn’t interested in “a little cash”. They want $30 Billion (that’s with a “B”) in funding every year. Not “a little cash” but anyone’s count. http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/

To put that in perspective, the United Way, America’s largest charity, is at 3.8 Billion per year.

]]> By: wayan http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-45376 wayan Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:17:06 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-45376 <p>It's too bad that OLPC isn't interested in "a little cash". They want $30 Billion (that's with a "B") in funding every year. Not "a little cash" but anyone's count.<br><a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/">http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/</a><br><br>To put that in perspective, the United Way, America's largest charity, is at 3.8 Billion per year.</p> It’s too bad that OLPC isn’t interested in “a little cash”. They want $30 Billion (that’s with a “B”) in funding every year. Not “a little cash” but anyone’s count.
http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/

To put that in perspective, the United Way, America’s largest charity, is at 3.8 Billion per year.

]]> By: Roger Hiles http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-36028 Roger Hiles Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:03:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-36028 <p>It's wrong to put off modernizing education until poverty has been eliminated. If that were the case in the US, for example, we'd still be waiting.</p> It’s wrong to put off modernizing education until poverty has been eliminated. If that were the case in the US, for example, we’d still be waiting.

]]> By: Roger Hiles http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-45375 Roger Hiles Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:03:11 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-45375 <p>It's wrong to put off modernizing education until poverty has been eliminated. If that were the case in the US, for example, we'd still be waiting.</p> It’s wrong to put off modernizing education until poverty has been eliminated. If that were the case in the US, for example, we’d still be waiting.

]]> By: Jim Lippard http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-36027 Jim Lippard Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:54:48 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-36027 <p>I think the cell phone is pretty much shaping up to be the key piece of technology in the third world, both as a communications device and a financial device. (Take a look at what Grameen Telecom Corporation is up to.)</p> I think the cell phone is pretty much shaping up to be the key piece of technology in the third world, both as a communications device and a financial device. (Take a look at what Grameen Telecom Corporation is up to.)

]]> By: Jim Lippard http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/comment-page-1/#comment-45374 Jim Lippard Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:54:48 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/16/one-laptop-per-child-reconsidered/#comment-45374 <p>I think the cell phone is pretty much shaping up to be the key piece of technology in the third world, both as a communications device and a financial device. (Take a look at what Grameen Telecom Corporation is up to.)</p> I think the cell phone is pretty much shaping up to be the key piece of technology in the third world, both as a communications device and a financial device. (Take a look at what Grameen Telecom Corporation is up to.)

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