Wednesday, June 21, 2006
More Criticism of $100 Laptop Project
Here's some more criticism of MIT's $100 laptop program--focused, like my other posts on OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), on trying to roll out a centralized, government-administered, proprietary program like this. Tony Roberts, head of a charity that supplies refurbished PCs to the developing world, suspects that the private sector will supply cheap computers to emerging markets faster and better than OLPC. He's right.
Here's some more criticism of MIT's $100 laptop program--focused, like my other posts on OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), on trying to roll out a centralized, government-administered, proprietary program like this. Tony Roberts, head of a charity that supplies refurbished PCs to the developing world, suspects that the private sector will supply cheap computers to emerging markets faster and better than OLPC. He's right.
# posted by vicbastard @ 5:34 AM 
