And these inexpensive computers are needed in Asian countries as well, such as Thailand, where 80 or 90% of the population can barely afford these inexpensive computers. And they are needed by young kids to learn from as well as older students and adults.

@ryan: glad you liked it ryan;
if you think it is appropriate maybe you could put it up on cybernet;
it merits to be seen by as many people as possible;

We’ll be sure to include it in the next article we write about the OLPC.

too many negative news items about africa, lets here the good news;
and kids are kids the world over and their curiosity and creativity will make them take to new things without any hang-ups.

You just know that they did this to make sure that these people wouldn’t be made familiar with Linux. Call me an open source hippie, but it’s so true.

Of course. That would be like them standing back and watching the Linux marketshare increase by millions of users. From their stand point they would be stupid not to try and get Windows on it.

Wow, those images and narration really put the whole project into perspective. I wonder what the kids thought the first time they were able to use it, and how quickly they were able to catch on.

@pieter: klopt, een echte amsterdammer;

indeed i am dutch and work in micro finance;
i get a bit tired when people think that the only thing that counts is food;
mobile phones is another thing that is growing very rapidly in many african countries; and people might only eat once a day, but they have a mobile phone;
and the same is now happening to computers;

# Ubuntu (philosophy), a concept of community from Sub-Saharan Africa, often summarized as “humanity towards others”.

Just saw the pictures of the students at the Galadima Primary School in Nigeria using the OLOC computer. As the teacher said, “it’s a blessing from the sky”.

Thanks for the link.

Regards,

Omar.-

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