Re: One Laptop Per Child
- From: Beech Rintoul <beech@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:40:10 -0900
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Olivier Nicole said:
I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very
strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is
offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be
well invested. YMMV
http://xogiving.org/
That is a difficult issue, while this is an opportunity, I doubt
this is the most needed thing to provide education. We are talking
giving laptop to people who do not even have electricity in some
cases...
Olivier
From what I've been reading they are addressing this issue. One way
was providing solar power recharging stations. The other was hooking
up carousel type playground equipment to a small generator to
recharge the laptops. The third was good old WWII vintage hand crank
power. I also read that these laptops are optimized for low power
usage. I live in Alaska and they have been using the internet for
education in rural villiages for many years with much success. I
personally think this is a great idea. Too bad they won't all be
running FreeBSD :-)
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