horas Posted May 29, 2006 at 03:11 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 at 03:11 PM * It would cost yourself $300, you got one laptop, the other two are donated to the poor children. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/ http://www.laptop.org/faq.en_US.html http://www.laptop.org/ - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashiriKata Posted May 29, 2006 at 05:22 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 at 05:22 PM Let's give the third world a taste of what they need from us! Let's teach them/ force them to need what they don't need! Let's make them feel totally inadequate, and eventually they'll sell their souls and bodies to us for more of our discarded junk! $100 a laptop, and this is only the beginning! $100 a laptop for the third world, and this is the only alternative! (And we don't want to know any other alternatives!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugubert Posted May 29, 2006 at 06:00 PM Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 at 06:00 PM Satire is very difficult. Great job though, HashiriKata! I would prefer to donate to for example a well drilling project to supply a Bangladeshi village with arsenic free water. To reverse the thinking, the main lesson I got when studying Hindi in India for a month was that it is possible to live without much of the complicated and expensive modern technology and still be happy, well-fed, etc. OTOH, there are hi-tech things that do add to the possibilities of rural and/or unprevilegied people. Owning a cellphone will allow even small scale growers to find a better price than when relying on some village monopolist buyer, learning to use cheap computers may give kids better opportunities for more education etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted May 31, 2006 at 01:58 PM Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 at 01:58 PM Opening an internetcafe is a better idea, I think. A laptop is only used by one person, and not all the time. Put the laptop (or computer) in a bar and hire it out, and many more people can profit from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libertango Posted June 1, 2006 at 06:09 AM Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 at 06:09 AM from what i remember, those laptops were meant to replace textbooks... so in that way, they would save poor families alot of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted June 1, 2006 at 07:13 PM Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 at 07:13 PM Not really. $100 can buy a lot of textbooks, especially in developing countries, were prices are lower. $100, that's about Y800, you can buy textbooks for an entire (small) Chinese school for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugubert Posted June 1, 2006 at 09:16 PM Report Share Posted June 1, 2006 at 09:16 PM I'll try to find the video, despite its being mainly in Swedish, but anyway there seems to be in India a project providing Internet access through what looks rather like phone booths (but free!), where kids (as well as adults) can connect to and use the 'net using a full keyboard and looking at a perfectly normal monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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