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Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

nelz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:15:11 -0000

I got mine today!!

It's cool, but I don't (yet) have time to play with it too much... However, I set it up on the desk next to mine, and there've been programmers puttering around it all afternoon.

YAY!!

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

digital frame — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:10:24 -0000

My frend's child has refused to use it, since he canâ€™t load Microsoft programs on it. So I expect we can find a worthy young donee if it gets too frustrating.

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

pod p. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:04:22 -0000

Dear westworld technophiles,

There's been a wide range of critique regarding OLPC since it was announced in Tunisia in 2005 by N. Negroponte ( whose brother John has been involved in foreign service of Urinating States under Nixon, Reagan and both Bushes... in other words: more fun than can ever be told on wikipedia bios! ).

But that certainly shouldn't color your views of OLPC as a cultural export from the founder of MIT's Media Lab ... because it may just be a misadventure for purely technical, pedagogical, social, and economic reasons.

The XL Terrestrials have been working on an analysis of this topic from a variety of perspectives, one being that "One Anything Per Everyone" is a backward concept that erases the progress made by Benjamin Franklin's invention of libraries, for example. Futhermore, might OLPC incorporate 1st world agendas that are detrimental to any civil society/culture that attempts to cultivate shared resources, sustainability and non-hegemonic horizontal communication flows??

From that angle, the Negropontes may be seen as late-capital corporate primates who believe in hunter/ gatherer, shopper /colonizer versions of society. NO Thanks!

...

But that's just one socio-political take, if you'd like to read further critiques... The Institute for Distributed Creativity
http://distributedcreativit...
has a discussion thread about OLPC:
[iDC] One Laptop Per Child - MIT/Negroponte Initiative
see IDC archives:
https://lists.thing.net/pip...

Btw, If you Are intrigued by the socio-political view, be sure to read the post from David Golumbia at Virginia Tech.

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

rebecca carpenter — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:23:50 -0000

Hey folks,

If you're interested in winning one of these laptops, check out Razoo's "Good Travels" contest, which is giving away 10 of the XO laptops (5 to contest winners, and 5 to children in developing nations).

By the way, the grand prize of the contest is a trip for two anywhere in the world to put good into action (via ResponsibleTravel.com).

You can learn more about it and enter here: http://beta.razoo.com/good_...

Cheers,
rebecca
Razoo. Come Together, Change Your World.
http://blog.razoo.com

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

lane hartwell — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:45:20 -0000

For those of you who want to give the other laptop to someone at "home", perhaps consider shelters for women and children, or something along those lines. For example, I am thinking about doing this and donating the other computer to the Glide Church in San Francisco, which provides many services for homeless families.

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

allaina — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:18:18 -0000

you know, i've been following this story via engadget since it first surfaced as the '100 dollar pc' and i can honestly say that i'm a little disappointed that the price is still higher than 150 per unit. although, i've read the reviews of the OLPC and i am pretty impressed with what they'll be using.

are these only being sent overseas? how many inner-city US schools are underfunded and could use these? and with the 'no child left behind' act raising the bar in so many schools, how many high school students are in fact being left behind?

i know my HS had a full up-to-date computer lab, but a lot of schools in downtown cincinnati don't have any technology whatsoever.

oh well. i guess maybe that's irrelevant; these pcs definitely have a real market right now, and hopefully a lot of people with the resources chip in. it'll make the world better if countries that are now unable to educate their children are able to, and then those countries are better equipped to contribute to the world, no matter how it changes.

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

Cat Laine — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:20:12 -0000

My boyfriend and I just bought one as a xmas present for his mum. Already feeling gift envy. Must... resist... urge to .... degift...

Re: One Laptop Per Child Launches Give One Get One Program

Nelz — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:09:06 -0000

I just ordered one as well. What are you going to do with the one that comes to you?

(I'd probably like to play with the OLPC box for a little while, but I've already got access to all the computers I need...)

After I was through checking it out, I think it would be a shame not to give it to someone who could use it...

Maybe we should get together a bunch of people who are getting these in the area, and donate en-masse to a school in need, or something like that?